Travel thread

[The Argonaut]

OK, I spent $300 on the Amtrak USA Rail Pass. 10 trips in 30 days. I'll use them in late April or early May.

I'm not going to take 30 days off work, at most a week and a half. I could use up the trips I don't use on a big trip on a weekend away or a day trip to the city.

But how should I use my rail pass? I'm beginning in upstate NY. I could go south to DC, maybe down to someplace in NC. I could go west to Chicago or Milwaukee or St Paul or something. Where should I go by rail this spring?

[spike]

OK, I spent $300 on the Amtrak USA Rail Pass. 10 trips in 30 days. I'll use them in late April or early May.

I'm not going to take 30 days off work, at most a week and a half. I could use up the trips I don't use on a big trip on a weekend away or a day trip to the city.

But how should I use my rail pass? I'm beginning in upstate NY. I could go south to DC, maybe down to someplace in NC. I could go west to Chicago or Milwaukee or St Paul or something. Where should I go by rail this spring?

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[lennytheweedwhacker]

Gatlinburg, TN

[wease]

Gatlinburg, TN

When are you headed there?

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Gatlinburg, TN

When are you headed there?

Oh that was a suggestion for Argo. So I can stalk him.

[The Argonaut]

time to ban the bot, buddies

[lennytheweedwhacker]

jackoman is not a bot. Trust me.

[Strat]

Heading to La Paz this weekend to visit my mother in law. After dry January and bitter cold, this is gonna feel real nice.

[Bammer]

Arrive MPLS on 4/12, depart CHI on 4/19.

The only for absolute certain baseball game is Twins on 4/13. The rest I could pick from a couple options as I recall.

[96583UP]

say hi to john candy's polka band for me

[E.H. Ruddock]

Have fun!

[Higgs]

After our Italy/Greece trip last year we have decided this year its gonna be Spain/Portugal. Looking at flights for mid September now. Fucking yay.

[Higgs]

What cities and towns do we absolutely have to see in Spain?

[Ello Sailor]

Great architecture overload incoming. I am hella jelly of both, but particularly Portugal.

[Higgs]

Funny thing is I'm leaning to just do Spain at this point as I want to spend some time in Mallorca. But early days so let's see.

I'm a big drive guy so am interested in driving the Northern Alps and there seems to be some epic drives to do in Mallorca itself too.

[Higgs]

But fuck. Now I've just started checking out Portugal videos.

Might need an extra week off...

[Bammer]

Great architecture overload incoming.

All built by slave labor

[VinylGuy]

Portugal is one of my favs places in Europe. Lisbon is gorgeous, full of things to do and fucking eat. Make sure you taste all the kinds of pasteles de nata as you can.

The Belem tower is a must, go to the castles in Sintra too. And see if you can spend time in Cascais too, beautiful place.

Spain? yeah Mallorca, Madrid, Barcelona are also musts.

[dimejinky99]

Himself is in the phillipines for a month. Sending me videos of swimming with whale sharks and giant turtles. Now he’s on some week long Island hopping tour and it looks beautiful. Same time some of the people live on the islands live really basically. Female Pigs chained up and being used for piglets aka dinner.
Looks like a beautiful place though.