Travel thread

[Higgs]

I am 100% grabbing a popener. I am actually kinda on a mission to see what (small and light) but atrociously ugly souvenirs I can grab as we travel. Wife insists on doing Pisa so my trade-off is buying the ugliest leaning tower souvenir I can find and then having it take pride of place in the lounge room forever more.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

PORT OF CALL ARRIVE DEPART
Fri Aug 08 Southampton (London), England
Sun Aug 10 Newhaven (Edinburgh), Scotland
Mon Aug 11 Invergordon, Scotland
Tue Aug 12 Stornoway (Isle Lewis), Scotland
Wed Aug 13 Dun Laoghaire (Dublin), Ireland
Thu Aug 14 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sat Aug 16 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sun Aug 17 Zeebrugge, Belgium
Mon Aug 18 Le Havre, France
Tue Aug 19 Southampton (London), England


I’ll obviously make the most of this trip, but I wish I could swap the entire thing for just a caravan trip in the Hebrides.

[spike]

that is breakneck

[pepperwhiteMFC]

I know right? Fuck cruises. Oh well.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

Just an example of why this is lame - Invergordon isn’t Inverness. One of my favorite places in Scotland. I have anxiety over getting to Inverness and back to the ship in time.

New Haven isnt Edinburgh. Again, could miss the ship…

Wash rinse repeat.

[dimejinky99]

make sure to stop at the Vatican gift shop..you cant miss it on your way out..the catholics need money

I stocked up on the bottle openers with the pope’s face on them … or as we called them … Popeners. They’re a must have.

you mean to tell me, they didnt have christ on the cross corkscrews? in the vatican gift shop?

he turned water in to wine ffs it was the one trick he had everyone liked!

the vatican dont know their audience i tell ye that much.

[dimejinky99]

I am 100% grabbing a popener. I am actually kinda on a mission to see what (small and light) but atrociously ugly souvenirs I can grab as we travel. Wife insists on doing Pisa so my trade-off is buying the ugliest leaning tower souvenir I can find and then having it take pride of place in the lounge room forever more.

Just as an aside, The tower gets all the attention..but Pisa is a fuckin beautiful town. There's a bridge over the river into a sorted of proper covered open market. You could easily be in ancient Roman times. If i hadnt seen Florence i would have said Pisa is my favourite big town in that part of Italy.

[dimejinky99]

Never know who it is youd see buskin in the streets and lanes of beautiful Italy


https://youtu.be/tIPyAH3IKVM?si=Jz4WKVFFnmLyeR3B

[E.H. Ruddock]

About to go wander around midtown Manhattan for the afternoon

[Monkey_Driven]

About to go wander around midtown Manhattan for the afternoon

Get a street hot dog for me

[doug rr]

About to go wander around midtown Manhattan for the afternoon

Get a street hot dog for me

go have a stiff drink at jimmy's or Rudy's and post a pic...enjoy

[dimejinky99]

About to go wander around midtown Manhattan for the afternoon

Find the scratcher

Down in the Bowery.

Thank me later.

Good spot to scope out and know where it is for somewhere to go after a big gig

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[dad]

perv

[doug rr]

go to bubba gumps and get the burger

[bodysnatcher]

I’m going to dig a hole to China

[doug rr]

I’m going to dig a hole to China

with an American made shovel?

[E.H. Ruddock]

go to bubba gumps and get the burger

[96583UP]

go to Hustler club

[bart]

Gonna be in chicago next month for a few days, anyone have recs for a hotel in in the general vicinity of Wrigley