Travel thread

[spike]

I'm thinking of moving to Australia.

To train under Rangi at his dojo?

isn't Rangi a New Zealander?

he's got you there, john...

Then why does Dev want to move to Australia?

[doug rr]

I'm thinking of moving to Australia.

To train under Rangi at his dojo?

isn't Rangi a New Zealander?

he's got you there, john...

Then why does Dev want to move to Australia?

i guess because he's canadian..i don't know

[dad]

booked a trip to go to Playa Del Carmen in december.

[tree_]

sweet, playa

[dad]

i'm pretty excited, fam.

[tree_]

what are you going to do there playa

[dad]

eat, drink, be merry, sightsee, sunbathe, sex, read, enjoy bops that slap.

[tree_]

Can't you do those things at home?

[dad]

sure, but why not do them all in one beautiful location sans children?

[tree_]

sure, but why not do them all in one beautiful location sans children?

I'd rather ship the children off and relax at home

[Dev]

I'm thinking of moving to Australia.

To train under Rangi at his dojo?

isn't Rangi a New Zealander?

he's got you there, john...

Then why does Dev want to move to Australia?

i guess because he's canadian..i don't know

I just want to live by the ocean. And the pacific is so cold so I started thinking where the water might be warmer.

[Higgs]

I'm thinking of moving to Australia.

To train under Rangi at his dojo?

isn't Rangi a New Zealander?

he's got you there, john...

Then why does Dev want to move to Australia?

i guess because he's canadian..i don't know

I just want to live by the ocean. And the pacific is so cold so I started thinking where the water might be warmer.

If you moved to Aus the chances are you would still be swimming in the Pacific.

But yeah, there are certainly many more options available. I personally recommend the Indian.

[JuanHamm]

Why move to Australia when New Zealand is right there?

[bart]

Going to San Francisco in June for work - i can’t get a good feel for whether I’ll need a car or just be able to get by on cabs and public transport. All my work stuff is downtown but I’ll want to hit up the main tourist spots too - I’m thinking that I’ll probably get a car so I can go out to the redwoods and up the coast a bit, but open to suggestions otherwise.

[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]

sure, but why not do them all in one beautiful location sans children?

I'd rather ship the children off and relax at home

Gotta say tree is on to something here

[bart]

Parking is a bitch.
Uber/Lyft is plentiful.
Public is ok — a mix of busses and steer cars and pedi cabs.

The bigger issue is the homeless crisis, which is insane. I’d personally skip the rental so you’re not stressing out every time you leave the car. If you’re downtown, you’ll do ok with with busses and pedi cabs I’d think?

Meh, I’ll pay for the insurance and never leave anything more valuable than a stick of gum in the car so the bums can do whatever they want to it. But parking is a bigger concern, work will pay for it but I’d still rather avoid needlessly spending like 60 bucks a day to have the car sit in the hotel garage. Hmm.

[Bammer]

Parking is a bitch.
Uber/Lyft is plentiful.
Public is ok — a mix of busses and steer cars and pedi cabs.

The bigger issue is the homeless crisis, which is insane. I’d personally skip the rental so you’re not stressing out every time you leave the car. If you’re downtown, you’ll do ok with with busses and pedi cabs I’d think?

I’m going to the Mariners game today. Every time, a (small? medium?) part of me wonders if my car will be intact after the game.

Hate parking in the stadium lot cuz it takes forever to get out plus it’s like $40.

[bart]

How much would it be for the guy from big trouble in little China to drive me around in that bus?

[spike]

Parking is a bitch.
Uber/Lyft is plentiful.
Public is ok — a mix of busses and steer cars and pedi cabs.

The bigger issue is the homeless crisis, which is insane. I’d personally skip the rental so you’re not stressing out every time you leave the car. If you’re downtown, you’ll do ok with with busses and pedi cabs I’d think?

Meh, I’ll pay for the insurance and never leave anything more valuable than a stick of gum in the car so the bums can do whatever they want to it. But parking is a bigger concern, work will pay for it but I’d still rather avoid needlessly spending like 60 bucks a day to have the car sit in the hotel garage. Hmm.

Rent a car for only part of the trip, so you can drive across the GG bridge and check our Muir Woods and the coast.