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Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Mon October 16, 2023 4:34 pm
by Chris_H_2
Bammer wrote:I’ll be a couple blocks north of BC Place Arena.

Leaving Seattle 1pm. Time for early dinner near venue tonight.

Lunch is wide open tomorrow.
what 90's band are you going to see?

Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Mon October 16, 2023 5:12 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Chris_H_2 wrote:
Bammer wrote:I’ll be a couple blocks north of BC Place Arena.

Leaving Seattle 1pm. Time for early dinner near venue tonight.

Lunch is wide open tomorrow.
what 90's band are you going to see?
i'm guessing GNR

Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Mon October 16, 2023 5:15 pm
by Bammer
Good chance I’ll stick around for GNR after Alice In Chains’ set :bammer:

Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Tue October 17, 2023 12:34 am
by wease
Bammer wrote:Good chance I’ll stick around for GNR after Alice In Chains’ set :bammer:
I gotta give it to them, they’re fucking jamming. Other than Axl’s voice. I would’ve loved to see AIC/GNR

Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Wed October 18, 2023 5:00 am
by Bammer
Skipped the sushi (thankfully - my buddy was all hyped up about it, but relented this morning and we decided to head home around 10:30)

Re: Tips on: Vancouver, BC

Posted: Wed October 18, 2023 5:00 am
by Bammer
wease wrote:
Bammer wrote:Good chance I’ll stick around for GNR after Alice In Chains’ set :bammer:
I gotta give it to them, they’re fucking jamming. Other than Axl’s voice. I would’ve loved to see AIC/GNR
See you in the GNR thread

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed October 18, 2023 5:37 am
by Higgs
Been planning the pre-Xmas holiday with the wiffey the last few nights. Heading to Melbourne on the 9th December, hiring a car and bugging straight out. Gonna do the Mornington Peninsular, the Bass Coast, Wilson's Promontory and Gippsland, all the way to Mallacootta, where I am gonna catch a big dog Flatty! Then back to Melbourne for Xmas day itself and back home from there.

Looking forward to it already.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed October 18, 2023 10:36 am
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: Wed October 25, 2023 7:42 pm
by doug rr
not so much traveling but my wife is doing a weekend yoga/meditation thing on whidbey island this weekend..she's going Saturday and I'm showing up Sunday with the dog for a few days..just a remote cabin in the woods..at least it has a tv for football

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed October 25, 2023 7:43 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: Wed October 25, 2023 7:49 pm
by doug rr
tragabigzanda wrote:Love whidbey
I've never been there...its literally 10 miles away "as the crow flies" but with no ferry service on the island we're on the drive up and around is about 1-1/2 hours

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed October 25, 2023 7:57 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: Wed October 25, 2023 8:04 pm
by doug rr
tragabigzanda wrote:
doug rr wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Love whidbey
I've never been there...its literally 10 miles away "as the crow flies" but with no ferry service on the island we're on the drive up and around is about 1-1/2 hours
You on Bainbridge? My in-laws were there for a couple years, loved it. I had friends in Orcas and that was cool but definitely more remote hippy
we're on the south side of Camano Island

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed October 25, 2023 8:35 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: Sat November 04, 2023 8:44 pm
by The Argonaut
Here's a good tip: turn your VPN on to a location in Europe when you're browsing booking sites. They apparently have to display the full price there, instead of a base price upon which taxes and fees are then added. Nearly every hotel seems to have decided they are a resort that needs to add resort fees to their price, and if not that some cleaning fee or something. All that gets totalled up beforehand in Europe, much more reasonable. And easier to make ends of what is within my budget

Even better, I just booked three nights at a hotel on booking.com that they wanted $325 for with my VPN turned off. But I just turned the VPN on to a location in Dublin and refreshed the page and the price dropped to $295. Good deal, wild stuff

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 8:49 pm
by The Argonaut
I am hacker

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 1:07 am
by 96583UP
wow. great tip, i love this

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 5:12 pm
by The Argonaut
I am so glad

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 8:14 pm
by spike
nice one, argobot

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Mon November 13, 2023 4:43 pm
by spike
i've packed a copy of my kid's birth cert in case of child trafficking suspicions. additionally, i have a notarized letter signed by wife stating we are not leaving the country without her knowledge, in case of kidnapping suspicions. these are both recommended international travel tips for dads traveling with their kids in 2023. :|