Travel thread

[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.

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.

Yeah I think this is the plan now.

[dad]

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.

Yeah I think this is the plan now.

seeing Chinatown waking up, and everyone setting up shop is really cool. i'd add that walking the Golden Gate Bridge was better than driving across it...that's just my take.

would also recommend getting some bi-rite ice cream, and eating at Tartine at least once. there's also a Scientology church there.

the guided audio tour of Alcatraz was actually interesting too.

I'm envious of you going up to Muir Woods.

[bart]

We’ll see if I get the chance to do any of the tourist stuff, for all I know I won’t make it outside of downtown

[doug rr]

my wife and i have stayed at the pelican inn at muir woods about 3 or 4 times now..they have a great traditional small english pub in there..highly recommended..

[spike]

my wife and i have stayed at the pelican inn at muir woods about 3 or 4 times now..they have a great traditional small english pub in there..highly recommended..

Looks and sounds great, thanks!

[wease]

Headed to Orlando on Thursday for the youngest’s final cheer competition of the season. Not going to any parks thank god, although she’s going to Universal with a buddy on Friday. We’ll be gone Thursday thru Tuesday. I cannot wait to not have to fuck with work shit all day every day.

Thursday is by the pool after arrival. We have massages scheduled for Friday already then it’s poolside lounging the rest of the day. Saturday and Sunday are the competition then Monday is more pool time. Finally some rest and relaxation.

[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.

[wease]

Thanks trag

[Bammer]

Why does the bag of trail mix that I bought today go out of its way to advertise that it’s made with Michigan cherries? Something special about Michigan cherries? Should I travel there to find out more? Any good Bed & Breakfast suggestions in the cherry area?

(Mods please move this to travel subforum kthnx)

[JuanHamm]

The area around Traverse city, Michigan is known for it's cherry orchards. It's mostly tart cherries.

[spike]

The western coast of Michigan is just lovely in the summer months. Winery tour, anyone?

[E.H. Ruddock]

lol bammer the last time a new sub forum was made, we lost GD. Give it up, bud, it’s never happening

[Bammer]

lol bammer the last time a new sub forum was made, we lost GD.

We did???

How did I miss this.

[wease]

Currently in the Uber from Orlando airport to our hotel. Hoping the hotel still gives us the discount since Mrs Wease forgot the photo ID needed at check-in…

[bodysnatcher]

Heading to New Orleans for a few days and staying with my best bud from college.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Mardi Gras-f he goes

[tree_]

clever

[Jorge]

Heading to New Orleans for a few days and staying with my best bud from college.

Tell him hi from me

[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.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Decided on the Madrid -> London leg of my wife's long European work trip. Booked my flights, In Madrid from July9-15 then London July 15-21.