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Go places, see stuff [travel thread]
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The last thread is still open but on page 101 so I didn't want to resurrect it.
I just semi-impulse-booked a week's accomodation in La Gomera for January. Was thinking about it last year but didn't go for it, but then someone I know coincidentally went there this year and said it was really nice. Supposedly the best weather I can get in January without having to go to the southern hemisphere, and it's apparently great for hiking and birding.
This is the accommodation I booked:
I want to see trees and birds and maybe whales, and minimal people unless they are facilitating the seeing of whales.
Now I just need to get flights, ferries, car hire, insurance. Is that it? It's been so long since I've taken a holiday I can't really remember how they work.
I just semi-impulse-booked a week's accomodation in La Gomera for January. Was thinking about it last year but didn't go for it, but then someone I know coincidentally went there this year and said it was really nice. Supposedly the best weather I can get in January without having to go to the southern hemisphere, and it's apparently great for hiking and birding.
This is the accommodation I booked:
I want to see trees and birds and maybe whales, and minimal people unless they are facilitating the seeing of whales.
Now I just need to get flights, ferries, car hire, insurance. Is that it? It's been so long since I've taken a holiday I can't really remember how they work.
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La Gomera means The Gomera.
This time we're going to do the Grand Canyon finally, and maybe do a bus to LA so we can scratch California off the map for my wife (she really wants to touch the Pacific Ocean). So far, we've used comp points from their slot app to get 3 buy-one-get-one free buffet passes including the fancy Bellagio one, 2 tickets to Tournament of Kings (aka Medieval Times), and a few BOGO meals/drinks, and 4 of our nights are free.
It's been a very, very long year for us. Our son graduated and is in college now, I had a large heart issue land me in the hospital for a while, and it was a tough teaching year for her (like most teachers, I'm sure) along with needing to take certification courses - so this week away should be a massive refresh for us.
Great start to a couple weeks vacation! Luckily it seems to have been a light injury, she could walk slowly without pain almost right away. Thanks strength training!
View from the room was alright though
Anyway Athens is great, A+ ruins, very nice food and stuff.
we were invited to my cousin's children's baptism here and her husband (who is from Crete)'s cousin's wedding within 2 weeks of each other so we're going to be hanging out for a little while.
first meal here was a delicious and filling (and cheap!) pork gyro in pita and the restaurant included a homemade chocolate cake and shots of raki. it's gonna be a nice time
It will be my fifth beach vacation this year (fucking love the beach)
If I go to the Finger Lakes for Labor Day does that count as the beach too?
Check out the café and bar scene in the evenings.
I have a wedding to attend in August in the city and am wondering if it makes sense to park in Jersey and train over? Parking at the hotel is rather expensive.
I assume Lisbon and Lagos is/are a place/s in the US? And you're not doing a combined Portugal/Nigeria holiday?
We chilled last night due to injury but we have 7-night cruise now, then a few more days around Athens so hoping we’ll be injury free by then. The general evening culture looked amazing from our room, people were out and about and the temperature was great.
That's exactly what we decided to do this afternoon. For $60 each round-trip we're flying to LA so we'll have a solid 12 hours in the city.
We are going to do a few touristy things there (probably a hop on hop off bus for the day). In the end, we'll see what we want in LA so when we do a dedicated California trip we can focus on the San Diego area.
One big thing that is helpful for traveling for things to do is that a lot of the zoos in the US have a reciprocity agreement so if you have a membership there you'll get a discount on entrances around the country. If you like going to zoos and have one within like three hours of you it's worth looking into. ZooTampa is near me and the seasonal membership is essentially the price of two tickets and it lets me and a guest in free every visit and gets half off ticket prices in a ton of zoos across the country.
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Portugal
Lagos has the Ponte de Piedade I’m stoked to see
I hope if humans ever do settle new planets we can be more original with our place names, but I know we won't.
But uh
It means “lakes” in Portugese and like 31% of every municipality in the world has a body-of-water-inspired name, and Lagos Nigeria is built around a giant lake….so I think we actually do know how the name came to be
Its gonna be fun when you try to book a trip to New Tokyo 2 and end up two planets over on Neo Tokyo
Someone is going to step off the colony ship on a distant world and say "ahh, finally, New Newfoundland" right before getting dissolved by the local plant life or something.
if they take the bus, they can see lots more of california, specifically the deep desert!
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
We considered this factor as well. It's always a balancing act. In the end, we decided that two days with big bus rides was a lot, and flying seemed to be the way to go. We're getting to Vegas on a Wednesday, doing the LA flight on Friday, then a bus to see Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon either Monday or Tuesday (still have to book that), then leaving Las Vegas Wednesday.
They ended up in Vännäs, Sweden and loved it so much they kept coming back
Lots of bankers trying to get to executive banking school end up in the wrong one every year
That was mostly a joke about how the road from Las Vegas to LA is barren sandy wasteland, which is admittedly kind of pretty, but there's a lot of it and not much else.
Kentucky has so many city names taken from Europe, but they're also pretty small so I don't think you're going to accidentally end up flying to them.
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One thing that has changed though is inflation. ~$20 for a small watermelon is no joke.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Filming location for the D Day landings in Saving Private Ryan.
Very beautiful though we did get swarmed by wasps so had to leave early...
At the end of the vacation, is it better in your opinion to go out with a bang or steadily wind things down to ease the adjustment back to working life?
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
“Where are the taints most sunburned” is my top google search rec when you type “w”
Depends if you think of the vacation as a chance to rest and recharge, or as a experience you'll need to rest and recover from. Basically if you want to show up at your first morning meeting back ready and eager to get to work or looking like you've used up every ounce of energy you have and are slowly returning to being a functioning human.