Travel thread

[epilogue]

Love that album. One of the view PJ side projects I have on vinyl.

[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.

[epilogue]

I’m envious of your Croatia trip. I’d love to be there unencumbered by a child, free of “white lotus” style hopes for relaxation, just taking in the history and culture and architecture of a place I know nothing about. Have fun!

Thanks!

Yeah, the trip is about relaxing but it's not about luxury. We'll spend time reading on beaches and on boats but it's more about the other stuff you said: taking in the history, culture, and architecture. I think we're gonna hit three different spots. Dubrovnik, Split and the island of Korcula. We'll do some island hoping in and around those spots as well.

Still figuring it all out and in the early planning stages. But I'm so pumped.

[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.

[epilogue]

I’m envious of your Croatia trip. I’d love to be there unencumbered by a child, free of “white lotus” style hopes for relaxation, just taking in the history and culture and architecture of a place I know nothing about. Have fun!

Thanks!

Yeah, the trip is about relaxing but it's not about luxury. We'll spend time reading on beaches and on boats but it's more about the other stuff you said: taking in the history, culture, and architecture. I think we're gonna hit three different spots. Dubrovnik, Split and the island of Korcula. We'll do some island hoping in and around those spots as well.

Still figuring it all out and in the early planning stages. But I'm so pumped.

The Balkans seem to have made a concerted push towards embracing tourism over recent years, so theoretically there’s a great mix of authentic local culture and tourist-aimed fare that shouldn’t feel like it’s been co-opted by the TikTok set.

I need to watch the No Reservations Croatia episode again.

We just watched it again the other night.

[The Argonaut]

I am traveling this weekend. En route to Baltimore. Currently in the train station in New York, waiting for the train. I got out of the train about 9p and walked around for like an hour. As soon as I emerged onto the street, I kind of regretted I wasn't staying here but continuing on. But that's alright. I walked around for an hour, ate some food, then just had a pint at the bar in the train station.

I'm hoping to sleep on the train overnight. I thought an overnight train would be better than wasting an entire Saturday on the train

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Be careful!

[Higgs]

Starting to book our accommodation for our Spain trip in September. Barcelona is fucking EXPENSIVE.

Thanks Biden!

[spike]

I am traveling this weekend. En route to Baltimore. Currently in the train station in New York, waiting for the train. I got out of the train about 9p and walked around for like an hour. As soon as I emerged onto the street, I kind of regretted I wasn't staying here but continuing on. But that's alright. I walked around for an hour, ate some food, then just had a pint at the bar in the train station.

I'm hoping to sleep on the train overnight. I thought an overnight train would be better than wasting an entire Saturday on the train

What the hell it takes less than three hours to go from NYC to Baltimore.

[The Argonaut]

The train stopped in Philadelphia for about three and a half hours so I could sleep. I didn't say this was a good plan, sometimes I am overly confident of my strength. But I slept

[bart]

what

[The Argonaut]

The train leaves New York at like 11:30p, stops in Philadelphia a little before 1AM and stays there until about 4:30a before continuing on south. I slept on the train.

I only took two days off work and I didn't want to waste a whole day on a train. Instead I wasted a whole night.

I don't know. I'm still waking up

(bear in mind I live a 2.5 hour train ride north of New York, too)

[96583UP]

Acela does NYC to BAL in like 2h 20 mins ... if you book it well in advance it can be very cheap depending on time of day ... like $40 even ... closer to the date it jacks up in price though ...

[The Argonaut]

I made a decision. Was it a good decision? I don't know

[bart]

it was not

[The Argonaut]

It turns out it was a good decision. You are wrong, bart

[Jorge]

What are you gonna do in Baltimore?

[bart]

I’m pretty sure Abraham Lincoln’s funeral tour traversed the east coast faster than Argo’s train

[The Argonaut]

What are you gonna do in Baltimore?

I'll go to art museums, I'll go to vegan restaurants. I'll drink coffee, I'll walk around hip neighborhoods. I'll go the movies. I'm seeing a baseball game Monday night. Nothing spectacular

[96583UP]

i believe the baseball stadium is real but jury still out whether the rest of that content exists in that city

on a serious note though: please know where you are walking. please do not get mugged / assaulted