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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 11, 2023 11:22 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 11, 2023 11:39 pm
by Chris_H_2
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth
way to totally jinx it for wease

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat August 12, 2023 12:25 am
by wease
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth
How does the key exchange work?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat August 12, 2023 12:25 am
by wease
Chris_H_2 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth
way to totally jinx it for wease
AL

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat August 12, 2023 9:44 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
wease wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth
How does the key exchange work?
For us it was a lock box hanging on the window with a code the owner gave us. I’d imagine some might be in person though

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat August 12, 2023 10:19 pm
by wease
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
wease wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah we used Turo at Christmas. Flew in to NYC, they left the car in short term parking, and we left it in short term when we left. Was a brand new suv and everything was affordable and smooth
How does the key exchange work?
For us it was a lock box hanging on the window with a code the owner gave us. I’d imagine some might be in person though
Ah. Thanks Ruddo

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun August 13, 2023 1:18 pm
by Bammer
Decided not to go to Arizona later this month. Too hot there.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun August 13, 2023 2:10 pm
by wease
Good call

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun August 13, 2023 2:35 pm
by spike
Paris for a week and a half in November.

Wife has to be there for work each week bookending Thanksgiving, so the kid and I will meet her over there in between. Flying kid’s Nana up from Australia to be au pair as well.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 5:16 pm
by 96583UP
which part of Paris you staying in?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 6:10 pm
by Chris_H_2
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 6:13 pm
by dad
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
what's the handicapped parking situation like there?

asking for a friend.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 6:27 pm
by 96583UP
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 6:39 pm
by Chris_H_2
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 9:48 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).
Paris is our favorite by far...once my wife decides to retire we will be spending at least 6 months there and renting a place in place des voges..we checked out apartments there a few years back

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 10:03 pm
by Chris_H_2
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).
Paris is our favorite by far...once my wife decides to retire we will be spending at least 6 months there and renting a place in place des voges..we checked out apartments there a few years back
take Lenny with you

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 10:07 pm
by wease
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).
Paris is our favorite by far...once my wife decides to retire we will be spending at least 6 months there and renting a place in place des voges..we checked out apartments there a few years back
take Lenny with you
We’re going to both Paris and Rome next year.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 10:11 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).
Paris is our favorite by far...once my wife decides to retire we will be spending at least 6 months there and renting a place in place des voges..we checked out apartments there a few years back
take Lenny with you
they dont have a culvers

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 10:15 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote: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.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri August 18, 2023 10:34 pm
by Chris_H_2
wease wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:which part of Paris you staying in?
the rich part
there’s a lot of them, though!

i have left bank recommendations if applicable
next to rome, paris is my absolute favorite city in europe (and it would be no. 1 if i didn't have a sentimental attachment to rome from the year that i studied there).
Paris is our favorite by far...once my wife decides to retire we will be spending at least 6 months there and renting a place in place des voges..we checked out apartments there a few years back
take Lenny with you
We’re going to both Paris and Rome next year.
So is dad. you should meet up … without Lenny.