holiday plans thread

[atomicpaul]

i'm going to hilton head island this weekend. famously, it's the headquarters of comstar in the future or some shit if i remember my battletech lore correctly. i probably don't.

i'm gonna have beer and walk around on the beach and read some books. what about you on holiday?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Going to San Diago, which as we know, stands for A Whale’s Vagina

Then staying a week

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/5MuIhoJ.jpeg

[atomicpaul]

Going to San Diago, which as we know, stands for A Whale’s Vagina

Then staying a weekthat'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.

[atomicpaul]

https://i.imgur.com/5MuIhoJ.jpegsince i can't merely thank this post i will just say I GET IT

[Skyking]

https://i.gifer.com/IiLY.gif

staying inside where it's safe

[loramin]

k8F3UE9qFsg

About to leave on a cruise to Alaska. I'll be eating king crab, watching glaciers from my balcony, and playing P99 on a boat motherfucker ... with a terrible internet connection :(

[loramin]

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.

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).

[Ciderpress]

I plan to remember and honor those who fought and died for our country, so that I could sit around and play everquest and jerk off

[Botten]

We are heading back to our old stomping grounds where we met. Visiting the Groton Pharma campus where the magic all started.

Then heading to stay at Foxwoods to go to the new Great Wolf Lodge for the water and adventure park.

Then back to Canada.

[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]

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-in-chile-statistics-2023-the-ultimate-guide-5558 and also it has a lot of Good beers!!!

[Duik]

LMFAO

[atomicpaul]

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.

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 correctThe 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/walgreens-motion-sickness-relief-band/ID=prod6168015-product?gStoreCode=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]

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/walgreens-motion-sickness-relief-band/ID=prod6168015-product?gStoreCode=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 :)

[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.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

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 :)

Always been of the same opinion. Traveling for me was ruined in my childhood a little by my dad who would meticulously over-plan everything and then self-destruct when things inevitably went wrong. I just made the association then that travel = stress and it’s never left me

But you and I are by far in the minority with that outlook. I can’t even mention my dislike of travel on at least first dates because it is basically date suicide. I used to watch the girl’s faces just drop and know I fucked up with that one. “I love to travel” or “I want to see more of the world one day” is hands down one of the most relatable and useful things to put on a dating profile. But I won’t do it because I am not going to lie

But having gone to every state is pretty impressive ngl

[kjs86z2]

I travel to stand on the tops of mountains.

[atomicpaul]

When I was a kid and went on the first family road trip out west, my dad got so mad that we were playing with the game gear he grabbed it and chucked it out the window

In retrospect, I bet that looked pretty strange to whoever was behind us on the highway

[nostalgiaquest]

Just booked a week long liveaboard dive boat in the Red Sea in July, and thinking about Uzbekistan in August to see some old Silk Road cultural stuff.

Starting to research something for winter too. Thinking Palawan Philippines for more diving.

[Duik]

Did 11 days on the Barrier reef diving. 12 person yacht. Learnt i wasnt a sailor.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Some Legoland pics. These are just 2 of me, I might post more of the park because although it was clearly more for kids there were some cool spots and rides

First pic I look angry but it’s moreso that my legs are gassed from running the boardwalk every day and so that kneeling pose is hurting

And second pic I look bored but wasn’t, at least not all the time. @ gym tho and almost outta time hur

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Me trying to look pensive with the sunset. Dunno why it got grainy when my older cuz sent it to me, looked better on his phone :/

[Ciderpress]

I don't necessarily like or dislike travel, just depends on where we're talking about.

I'd love to see the grand canyon, or the pyramids. I do not want to see every stupid little town in the netherlands or whatever. Snooze me a river, danes.

Ohhhh, this is called schtrenteldudle, it's a delicious gravy biscuit dish! Who cares.

[Skyking]

been to the grand canyon like 10 times, isn't that cool. hoover dam is way more impressive

driving over that thing is legit scary as fuck, and the elevator they have

[atomicpaul]

yeh that bridge is no joke. i am terrified of heights, but go to the tallest places i can in some shitty "face your fears" kinda thing. that one had me shaking. hell, the glass bridge in gatlinburg was scary.

[atomicpaul]

Some Legoland pics. These are just 2 of me, I might post more of the park because although it was clearly more for kids there were some cool spots and rides

First pic I look angry but it’s moreso that my legs are gassed from running the boardwalk every day and so that kneeling pose is hurting

And second pic I look bored but wasn’t, at least not all the time. @ gym tho and almost outta time huri fell the other day and injured my knee, and boy howdy, if that's not a reminder i am over 40... i was hobbling around for days and then the bruise came. it still aches. and i have a personal training session tomorrow so i hope they let me take it easy on my left leg.

[Ciderpress]

yeh that bridge is no joke. i am terrified of heights, but go to the tallest places i can in some shitty "face your fears" kinda thing. that one had me shaking. hell, the glass bridge in gatlinburg was scary.

I have a massive fear of heights too but not in planes for some reason. I actually love flying in a window seat on a clear day, it's cool as shit. You somehow shed the fear because you know you'll either land completely safely or die quickly in a fireball.

I'm still trying to talk myself into going skydiving at least once but I'm not even close yet psychologically

[atomicpaul]

yeah, i don't get worried about planes for some reason, either. but if i go up in a tall building or up on, like, hoover dam? i'm shaking like a leaf on a tree.

this didn't kick in until i was about 30 for some reason. i even went bungee jumping in my youth but that's out of the question, now.

both my wife and older brother have done skydiving. my wife said she'll never do it again. when she went up there was a lady celebrating her... 80th? by skydiving. that's gnarly.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

i fell the other day and injured my knee, and boy howdy, if that's not a reminder i am over 40... i was hobbling around for days and then the bruise came. it still aches. and i have a personal training session tomorrow so i hope they let me take it easy on my left leg.

I never know whether to ice or heat when joints get hurt like that. I will say I like red light therapy for joint issues, I have some bulbs I bought off Amazon for like $20 back in the day I hover for 30min/day for joint injuries

If you can move it, prolly not hurt too bad hopefully

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

yeah, i don't get worried about planes for some reason, either. but if i go up in a tall building or up on, like, hoover dam? i'm shaking like a leaf on a tree.

this didn't kick in until i was about 30 for some reason. i even went bungee jumping in my youth but that's out of the question, now.

both my wife and older brother have done skydiving. my wife said she'll never do it again. when she went up there was a lady celebrating her... 80th? by skydiving. that's gnarly.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

More CA picz

1st is playing MTG

2nd is a coaster

3rd and 4th are more of Legoland

[Skyking]

sorry, the second i saw that photo i had to test something.
https://i.imgur.com/LCxO4XK.png

someone at google is doing their job at least, but the models are 100% capable of reconstructing it with scary fidelity

also too much background information, geolocating that based off floor plans is doable

we live in a post privacy world.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

sorry, the second i saw that photo i had to test something.
https://i.imgur.com/LCxO4XK.png

someone at google is doing their job at least, but the models are 100% capable of reconstructing it with scary fidelity

also too much background information, geolocating that based off floor plans is doable

we live in a post privacy world.

Meh it’s our last day here, until we vanish back home until some time next year which most certainly won’t overlap due to how crazy the renting price $$ here has gotten due to some local rule changes about short term rentals that I don’t understand

Someone would have to hurry up, 3d print that gun and hurry over, traffic here is a bitch too

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

If someone does come over and put the ASS in assassinating me, plz don’t AI render myself forgiving the killer or I will haunt him and you

[atomicpaul]

philly was alright. i got to go to a masonic temple for a party. i had a bunch of caviar and weird cocktails. i got my photo with a ben franklin impersonator. they had a fifteen foot tall statue of ben franklin inside.

lots of people refused to go to the party because of satanic energy or something. i'm not a mason and was never invited to be one but it just seems like boys club crap to me. i think of that secret society in the righteous gemstones. that's about how seriously i take it, except it's older and has more famous members.

they gave us eggs as... souv... souveniers. gifts.

[justdavid]

https://d1nwfvw9iqnfnz.cloudfront.net/filters:autojpg()/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:quality(100)/gowithguide/profiles/66306/ca95df34-ad6f-4ec5-88fa-3fc2ae38d439.png

Here in the Andes Mountains of Chile and the views are amazing! ��️ The weather has been great for trekking — sunny, cool, and clear skies all day. ☀️ Tried some trekking today through this rocky landscape, and it was such a fun experience. Big thanks to my local guide from https://gowithguide.com/chile Chile for being such great company and helping me along the way!

[Duik]

Aww such a personal and real experience you have shared here. Thank you for making me vomit a lil in my mouth.

Here I was thinking that A.I/spambots were emotionless shitbags.
May your zeros be replaced by the letter q and your ones be the hash character.

[Reiwa]

Anyone going to a Juneteenth party?

What happens at a juneteenth party

[Ekco]

>What happens at a juneteenth party
https://g.co/gemini/share/3439877b9aba

>Barbecue is a staple
>"Miss Juneteenth" contests

sounds more fun than Kwanzaa.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Anyone going to a Juneteenth party?

What happens at a juneteenth party

I think it has something to do with slavery, so if you don’t have a black guest there you can “free” then someone is going to have to bite the bullet and wear blackface I think

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Father’s Day Dad and I went and saw that Ballerina John Wick movie. And being that this is the first movie I have seen since Top Gun Maverick, I feel highly certified in doing a review. I had only seen the original John Wick movie like once, but I was still more confused than I expected to be, plot-wise. The action was so highly stylized and very cool looking, but so unrealistically so. Not sure if it’s due to the meta skillset progression through the past 6 or whatever movies, but I was thinking ok so is this like a comic book world or, or what. I’m not a military tactics specialist but I’m pretty sure the best in the world special ops aren’t able to do any of this shit. Oh and first off maybe I should led with that I had no idea this was going to be about a chick. I figured Ballerina was either some figure of speech or maybe a nice car or John Wick in a tutu

The setup is basically a Kill Bill re-skin. Girl becomes super assassin yadda yadda. I just didn’t expect John Wick to almost not be in the damn thing. When he does come in, in the very end, his presence is magnetic. Character has some kind of a tired slouch at this point in the timeline but his presence commands the screen, and he steals every moment of the 32 seconds of screen time they gave him. Damn he wasn’t nearly that cool in the first one

But this chick is throwing knives and axes perfectly from any direction into people’s faces, and blowing people up with grenades while perfectly blocking it with an upturned table I’m like come on. But credit to the actress, her fight scenes don’t look stupid. Like she can still do some unrealistic crazy shit, but they make it seem like it’s because she’s such a super assassin, and she mostly uses weapons unless karate fighting little Japanese men in a dance club which is so action movie cheese I loved it. It’s not as bad as other movies and shows that have these petite women kicking dude’s who are twice their size’s assess in a fist fight or some dumb shit

Overall I give it like a C+, but that’s because I had no idea WTF was going on with the story because I stupid

Then after went to Oreganos and got their meat lovers pizza and omg sex party in my mouth and all of the pizza was invited. That pizza was so fucking good I was considering completely shifting my life plan and going with yknow what I’m going to eat this all day every day like those 600lb life people and die in 3 years and it’ll be worth it. I don’t normally eat pizza like, ever

[shovelquest]

Hollywood is so dead. Smoked. Charred brisket.

[Reiwa]

Happy Juneteenth everyone!

What did you do for Juneteenth?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Happy Juneteenth everyone!

What did you do for Juneteenth?

Worked. And it was busy too

Freeway was dead at least on the way to work. Musta been due to the holiday because a drive that normally is a 50 min gridlock shit show only took 15min

I trapped a black co-worker in the bathroom for an hour and then freed him, but he was not happy. He didn’t understand the ceremony I guess, so I told him to brush up on his own culture sometime

[shovelquest]

lol

[Ciderpress]

I wish I had a holiday just for me. Why don't I??

[atomicpaul]

i had juneteenth off. so i got stoned and played on THJ basically all day except for a few errands.

[Botten]

I wish I had a holiday just for me. Why don't I??

Pretty sure that is called a birthday. Or any other day you decide to treat yourself.

[magnetaress]

Ciderpress. Try Columbus day?

Or u more the cinco de mayo type?

[shovelquest]

Why don’t we have R word day?

[Ekco]

lol'd

[atomicpaul]

Why don’t we have R word day?one day they'll make january 6th a holiday, it's just gotta get further in the rear-view mirror

[Ciderpress]

I mainly just hate the word "juneteenth" on the basis of grammar. Are you actually trying to encourage illiteracy or something? Call it slavery is bad day. Wooo! A thing everyone already agrees with, great.

[shovelquest]

I wish I could make a joke about something right now.