Travel thread

[Anders]

Going to Tenerife in the Canary Islands Spain today. It’s now just over 5am, and we’re on our way to the airport. Been thinking about this trip for months now. Will be challenging with a two year old on the plane, and constantly around water in Tenerife, but overall it should be a great trip.

[Anders]

Going to a volcano today. First time ever.

[JuanHamm]

Going to a volcano today. First time ever.

Please be careful

[Anders]

Going to a volcano today. First time ever.

Please be careful

Thank you. Survived.

[wease]

Going to a volcano today. First time ever.

Please be careful

Thank you. Survived.

I bet that was cool.

[spike]

Good job not falling in

[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.

[Bammer]

Where to get dinner near the stadium on a Monday evening before the A’s game?

[wease]

There’s a Denny’s close by.

[Anders]

Hey Anders was this volcano trip on your

Spoiler: show

bucket list

In a way it was, even if I don’t really have one.

[washing machine]

The BART system is indeed a system.

[Anders]

Final full day in Spain, going home tomorrow. Been wonderful here.

[Anders]

About 90 minutes until we land at Oslo Airport. Going somewhere is fun, but the travelling itself is often quite boring. Look forward to getting back to the apartment now.

[spike]

What’s the best Hawaiian island to stay on?

[Bammer]

What’s the best Hawaiian island to stay on?

Take it to the Tips On: Hawaii thread, pal!

[bart]

Maui was my favorite. Good combo of developed areas and natural attractions and not too crowded (prob even less so now). Kauai is great too. Oahu is not as bad as some snobs claim but it is very developed and crowded.

[bart]

Plus from Maui you can most easily do a one day trip to see Volcanoes National Park on the big island.

[spike]

Thanks, bart!

We decided to scrap our plan to stop over in Hawaii on the way to Australia over Xmas. We’ll do it eventually.

[dad]

i want to go back to Hawaii.

[spike]

i want to go back to Hawaii.

With that couple?