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Re: Travel thread
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 10:43 pm
by epilogue
I never saw it.
Also, you can't make water without bumping your nut on a Shake Shack where I live. So it's not much of a plus.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 11:25 pm
by oasisfan35
epilogue wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:epilogue wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:WHERE IN COLORADO??????
Estes Park!
Very good. It’s a beautiful place. Enjoy!
It’s also on fire currently.
Typical of Colorado. Every summer we burn.
The burn scars from the fires in Ft Garland years ago, are now covered with new Aspen trees. That’s how it works. Pines burn, aspen grow, leaves fall and become mulch. Wash rinse repeat.
Yeah but will Joe be trapped there/die there.
He’ll be ok. Might get trampled on the train at DIA if anything.
What a godforsaken place that is.
Possibly as close as one gets to literal hell on earth.
Denver International? That place was great and got to close down two bars with the last locking us IN until our flights were boarding.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 12:32 am
by doug rr
oasisfan35 wrote:epilogue wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:epilogue wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:WHERE IN COLORADO??????
Estes Park!
Very good. It’s a beautiful place. Enjoy!
It’s also on fire currently.
Typical of Colorado. Every summer we burn.
The burn scars from the fires in Ft Garland years ago, are now covered with new Aspen trees. That’s how it works. Pines burn, aspen grow, leaves fall and become mulch. Wash rinse repeat.
Yeah but will Joe be trapped there/die there.
He’ll be ok. Might get trampled on the train at DIA if anything.
What a godforsaken place that is.
Possibly as close as one gets to literal hell on earth.
Denver International? That place was great and got to close down two bars with the last locking us IN until our flights were boarding.
I worked for united airlines for a couple of years in my younger days at DIA...I never had a problem with it at the time until the weather was bad whether is was too hot or too cold and with the elevation I had to weight restrict planes and kick half the people off that wanted to fly to aspen..I printed out so many meal vouchers and we would keep some for ourselves and once the plane left we would go to McDonalds and order a shit ton of food..you had to sign the vouchers and I always signed it mick jagger..
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 1:23 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
epilogue wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:epilogue wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:WHERE IN COLORADO??????
Estes Park!
Very good. It’s a beautiful place. Enjoy!
It’s also on fire currently.
Typical of Colorado. Every summer we burn.
The burn scars from the fires in Ft Garland years ago, are now covered with new Aspen trees. That’s how it works. Pines burn, aspen grow, leaves fall and become mulch. Wash rinse repeat.
Yeah but will Joe be trapped there/die there.
He’ll be ok. Might get trampled on the train at DIA if anything.
What a godforsaken place that is.
Possibly as close as one gets to literal hell on earth.
Not our best week.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 1:44 am
by epilogue
pepperwhiteMFC wrote:epilogue wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:spike wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:epilogue wrote:pepperwhiteMFC wrote:WHERE IN COLORADO??????
Estes Park!
Very good. It’s a beautiful place. Enjoy!
It’s also on fire currently.
Typical of Colorado. Every summer we burn.
The burn scars from the fires in Ft Garland years ago, are now covered with new Aspen trees. That’s how it works. Pines burn, aspen grow, leaves fall and become mulch. Wash rinse repeat.
Yeah but will Joe be trapped there/die there.
He’ll be ok. Might get trampled on the train at DIA if anything.
What a godforsaken place that is.
Possibly as close as one gets to literal hell on earth.
Not our best week.
I was supposed to be home Mon 8/5 @ 9:40 PM
I walked in my front door at 10:30 AM today, 8/7.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 1:47 am
by Strat
DIA is trash. I can vouch for it with 16 years of experience.
Fuck that place. ITs why i left the goddamn state.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:01 am
by E.H. Ruddock
lol “this airport sucks I’m moving!!!”
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:11 am
by doug rr
give me DIA over LAX, Chicago, or any ny/newark airport
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:15 am
by wease
Fuck Newark
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:17 am
by Strat
doug rr wrote:give me DIA over LAX, Chicago, or any ny/newark airport
DIa is still ike an hour from denver. And 3-10 depending on weather/traffic living in the mountains.
fuck it all to hell.
Typical layover in denver: Flight canceled, flight delayed, just getting its back on, oh hey your layover is 2 hours, great, haha fuck you, because we're late it is now only 20 minutes and we have dropped you off at gate A1 and your connecting flight is at C 176 good luck!
I hate DIA so fucking much.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:20 am
by doug rr
Strat wrote:doug rr wrote:give me DIA over LAX, Chicago, or any ny/newark airport
DIa is still ike an hour from denver. And 3-10 depending on weather/traffic living in the mountains.
fuck it all to hell.
Typical layover in denver: Flight canceled, flight delayed, just getting its back on, oh hey your layover is 2 hours, great, haha fuck you, because we're late it is now only 20 minutes and we have dropped you off at gate A1 and your connecting flight is at C 176 good luck!
I hate DIA so fucking much.
go broncos
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 2:50 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: Thu August 08, 2024 2:51 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
Blucifer is pretty cool, though.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 3:07 am
by Chris_H_2
tragabigzanda wrote:wth doug, LGA is a perfectly fine airport
When’s the last time you had to fly home at 9:00 pm on a Thursday night in July? There’s always a delay. Even with the new terminal, that airport is still the worst.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 3:13 am
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:wth doug, LGA is a perfectly fine airport
When’s the last time you had to fly home at 9:00 pm on a Thursday night in July? There’s always a delay. Even with the new terminal, that airport is still the worst.
yep..all nyc airports are the worst no matter how much they tell you that they've improved...who doesn't love standing in line behind one person for 20 minutes at Hudson news to buy water and a paper and beef jerky
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Thu August 08, 2024 11:24 am
by oasisfan35
doug rr wrote:give me DIA over LAX, Chicago, or any ny/newark airport
LAX is like its own city. When I was traveling out west often it was primarily JFK > Burbank and LAX > JFK, can't say I had any complaints.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Fri August 09, 2024 1:18 am
by bart
taking the acela is orders of magnitude less annoying than flying
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Sat August 10, 2024 6:55 am
by daft twat
Wease, I’d like a travel journal post from your Europe odyssey this summer when you have some time. I tried searching your posts and they’re all over the shop. The meetup with VG is a true highlight. We just got back from our trip. I asked my wife where she’d go next and her 1 and 2 are Greece and Rio.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Sat August 10, 2024 10:56 am
by wease
I’ll see if I can grab all my posts and combine everything.
Re: Travel thread
Posted: Sat August 10, 2024 11:33 am
by 96583UP
bart wrote:taking the acela is orders of magnitude less annoying than flying
yes