holiday plans thread

[Duik]

Everyday is a holiday in Australia. I can literally stay home and let the tourists come to me. All 17 of them.
I prolly wont get a park in the main street cuz its a weekend.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that's swell, san diago is a lovely city. i'd go further but hilton head is like a five hour drive from here so it checks out.

wife and i did rebook the honeymoon we meant to have until covid intervened, we're taking a cruise to alaska the first week of august. never sailed on norweigan but it looks p. working class.

Alaska cruise sounds fun, I never been on a cruise before

Hopefully you get to go on land and explore a lot. I feel like I might get stir crazy confined to a boat all the time. But I do hear there’s lots to do even on the boat, er ship

[Ciderpress]

Cruises are kinda weird, I went on one in the bahamas once and got really sunburned and bought a conch shell. We had dinner with the same people every night because I think they were in the cabin nextdoor, so you kinda become friends for a few days. There are always strange sex vibes in the air. Remember to get back to the boat before it leaves because they just go and if you miss it you have to explain to people wherever you are that you missed your cruise ship and nobody is sympathetic at all.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Ya, I heard that before about getting stranded. I already am not a huge fan of traveling or foreign places in general, getting stranded would be such a nightmare. I’d make a beeline to the US embassy to phone for Trump to come save me

From what I’ve heard from family members the food is amazing and in big quantities on cruises, so they sit around and eat all day and gain like 10lbs. I hear there’s gyms on those cruises but my fam is pretty much completely against working out at all while on vacation, not even the athletic ones. So they just sat and ate all day on cruises and got fat

I’m going to be working out like crazy in SD. Place is like a meat market already, and every year the hottest get hotter. Gotta try to come correct

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

View from the living room yesterday as we were getting settled

Did my first run to the pier and back today. Told myself, NOPENOPENOPENOPE, start slow, this is your first run. Don’t push it. You are wanting to be able to do this every day for a week on this hard concrete…

And I did the opposite. I went fast and pushed it 😕 lol. But don’t feel injured (yet). Hopefully won’t be too sore 2moro

[justdavid]

Planning on going to Chile and visit Argentina and Peru I read from this article that Chile has a lot to offer https://gowithguide.com/blog/tourism...ate-guide-5558 and also it has a lot of Good beers!!!

[Duik]

LMFAO

[atomicpaul]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We're doing Carnival this time; I don't think we've cruised with them since our honeymoon, so we're giving them another try. However we've done several cruises with Norwegian, and they're always nice. Last time their steak and fries lunch was so tasty, my wife and I ordered it the entire cruise!

Let me know if you want any tips (this will be my 3rd time going there).

That's pretty cool. I've sailed Carnival to Mexico when it used to go out of Mobile, but that particular cruise no longer operates on that route. Lots of dudes in camo and people shouting ROLL TIDE on that boat. I later read it was rated the very dirtiest boat of all US-sourced cruises.

I am open to tips, this one out of Seattle will be the longest cruise I've had yet. It'll be my sixth time on a cruise.

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ya, I heard that before about getting stranded. I already am not a huge fan of traveling or foreign places in general, getting stranded would be such a nightmare. I’d make a beeline to the US embassy to phone for Trump to come save me

From what I’ve heard from family members the food is amazing and in big quantities on cruises, so they sit around and eat all day and gain like 10lbs. I hear there’s gyms on those cruises but my fam is pretty much completely against working out at all while on vacation, not even the athletic ones. So they just sat and ate all day on cruises and got fat

I’m going to be working out like crazy in SD. Place is like a meat market already, and every year the hottest get hotter. Gotta try to come correct

The food is pretty intense even on crappy cruise lines. They do usually have decked-out gyms but I'm usually just on the treadmill or something in the mornings, unless the boat has a track on one of the upper decks - I'd always rather do that kinda thing outside if I can.

The main thing a lot of people have trouble with is the motion sickness, but that only happens to me on the first day, briefly. There's drugs but they can make drinking tricky, so I use these stupid bracelet things that may or may not work: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/wa...ode=5989&gQT=1

I think of all the things I don't understand about some people, the one I understand the least is the lack of desire to travel. I've met some people that don't even want to leave their home county and it's some tiny town in south Georgia that isn't even big enough to sustain a McDonald's. I've worked most of my career in travel-related industries and still do, but I'm generally game to travel almost anywhere, especially if I haven't been there before. Getting stranded can be a blessing in disguise, I got stranded in Amsterdam like 20 years ago and ended up having a great time.

That being said, I have no intention of ever returning to Arkansas if I can avoid it. If I ever get to go to both of the Dakotas, I will have been to every US state. Next year we're gonna try to go to Costa Rica if the plans work out, and for our 10th anniversary we're gonna try to go to Bora Bora, my wife's bucket list destination.

[Evia]

Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's pretty cool. I've sailed Carnival to Mexico when it used to go out of Mobile, but that particular cruise no longer operates on that route. Lots of dudes in camo and people shouting ROLL TIDE on that boat. I later read it was rated the very dirtiest boat of all US-sourced cruises.

I am open to tips, this one out of Seattle will be the longest cruise I've had yet. It'll be my sixth time on a cruise.

The food is pretty intense even on crappy cruise lines. They do usually have decked-out gyms but I'm usually just on the treadmill or something in the mornings, unless the boat has a track on one of the upper decks - I'd always rather do that kinda thing outside if I can.

The main thing a lot of people have trouble with is the motion sickness, but that only happens to me on the first day, briefly. There's drugs but they can make drinking tricky, so I use these stupid bracelet things that may or may not work: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/wa...ode=5989&gQT=1

I think of all the things I don't understand about some people, the one I understand the least is the lack of desire to travel. I've met some people that don't even want to leave their home county and it's some tiny town in south Georgia that isn't even big enough to sustain a McDonald's. I've worked most of my career in travel-related industries and still do, but I'm generally game to travel almost anywhere, especially if I haven't been there before. Getting stranded can be a blessing in disguise, I got stranded in Amsterdam like 20 years ago and ended up having a great time.

That being said, I have no intention of ever returning to Arkansas if I can avoid it. If I ever get to go to both of the Dakotas, I will have been to every US state. Next year we're gonna try to go to Costa Rica if the plans work out, and for our 10th anniversary we're gonna try to go to Bora Bora, my wife's bucket list destination.

as someone who would rather stay in my tiny town in south georgia that isnt even big enough to sustain a mcdonalds over traveling, i'll say the main reason for this is...

1) price to travel not worth the joy received -- i'll spend a few thousand dollars and have maybe 1-3 good memories from the experience. Whereas at home, that few thousand dollars stretches to many more good experiences
2) you have to deal with crowds, people, and socializing -- all mostly negatives

otherwise, sure, traveling is fine [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[atomicpaul]

I'm an ambivert and the wife is an introvert. I don't like crowds but I don't go out of my way to avoid them, either. I do find engaging strangers very fun, I am that dude at the airport bar who talks up whoever is nearby.

That's all good if it works for you, but I'd like to mention that you can totally do vacations for a few hundred bucks.