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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 9:48 pm
by 96583UP
Jorge wrote:
96583UP wrote:removed the posts

feel free to shit on americans some more!
I love the US and its people, perhaps as much as they love peeing in pools
welp that makes one of us

i hate Americans

they are fat, greedy, lazy, stupid, drive like idiots, are loud, eat crappy food, and vote for terrible politicians

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 9:48 pm
by 96583UP
which is why we need to Travel (and have a travel forum) so we can get away from them!

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Mon March 24, 2025 10:36 pm
by Chris_H_2
I think this may have been directed to me

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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Mon March 24, 2025 10:40 pm
by wease
Chris_H_2 wrote:I think this may have been directed to me

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Haha! Has to be!

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 5:00 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
My MiL offered to pay for a 7 day cruise in the Caribbean this August. Would be me, my wife, whichever of her three kids want to go, and her mom. Given my aversion to cruises, should I go on this? If any of her kids go, I'll go because it might be more fun. But if it is just me, my wife, and my MiL, I might politely decline. Thoughts?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 5:04 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: Tue March 25, 2025 5:34 pm
by Chris_H_2
that sounds like pure hell

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 6:00 pm
by doug rr
abort

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 6:00 pm
by 96583UP
second the hell comment

should read this review of a cruise experience and see if you think it will lead to something positive


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... as/677838/
CRYING MYSELF TO SLEEP ON THE BIGGEST CRUISE SHIP EVER

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 6:29 pm
by The Argonaut
don't go

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 7:10 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Yeah think I’ll politely decline. Only reason to go is if one of my stepsons or my step daughter goes to have someone to hang with, as i assume my wife will be busy looking after her mom

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 10:01 pm
by spike
it's cute that you think you can decline.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 10:08 pm
by Jorge
7 days is too long. If you have to go, try talking them into a shorter cruise

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 11:41 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
spike wrote:it's cute that you think you can decline.
My wife said if none of the kids go then she wants it to just be her and her mom for a mother daughter trip.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue March 25, 2025 11:47 pm
by spike
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
spike wrote:it's cute that you think you can decline.
My wife said if none of the kids go then she wants it to just be her and her mom for a mother daughter trip.
ahh, yeah def decline. bachelorama.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 1:21 am
by 96583UP
imagine if they all go and you get to stay home

what an amazing experience that could be

you could live the george costanza dream

eating blocks of cheese and only wearing sweat pants

have time to follow up on all sorts of tasks

solve perpetual motion

sky is the limit

if only

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 1:58 am
by Higgs
Yeah, having now done 2 cruises I don't think I'll ever be doing another one at this point.

Batchelor time sounds lovely though.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Thu March 27, 2025 3:41 pm
by Chris_H_2
our trip into what surely will be a comedy of errors and half tragedies begins this afternoon. i already noticed that united airlines put the first initial of my middle name on the back of my first name. i know it was them because i looked back at an old boarding pass from january and it showed the same thing. i normally wouldn't care, but i'm worried about security in rome on the way home. so i called united last night, and they said that they would have to reissue the ticket, and it would cost me the difference in the price of the flight now versus what i paid for it back in january (around $3000). i was livid. so my wife called and they said it was their error, they were marking it in my reservation, and if security gave me troubles a united agent would vouch for me. this doesn't portend good things for me.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Thu March 27, 2025 3:44 pm
by 96583UP
ah fek man that is so annoying

godspeed

when you get to piazza del popolo

think of me

as I did you

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Thu March 27, 2025 3:58 pm
by doug rr
have fun and too bad you miss opening day..dont worry though because the dodgers have already won it all