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Rikki Gins Lounge => Random Topics => Topic started by: nooryisawesome on September 04, 2022, 02:20:03 PM
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Asking where you favorite vacation spots are and why?
I’d like two answers from folks both domestically and internationally.
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Within North America? Manhattan. I love the sites and I am infatuated with architecture and city skylines. I try to make some time to visit every time I go to shithole New Jersey for the annual Speed-Bag gathering in July.
Elsewhere? St. Petersburg. James Bond reasons. From Russia With Love.
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Within North America? Manhattan. I love the sites and I am infatuated with architecture and city skylines. I try to make some time to visit every time I go to shithole New Jersey for the annual Speed-Bag gathering in July.
Elsewhere? St. Petersburg. James Bond reasons. From Russia With Love.
St. Peterburg looks fun. I thought about Russia before the war. How does entry work? I googled some but it’s always better to ask someone who has gone there.
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The Guana Tolomato Matanzas Reserve and the Okefenokee Swamp. I don’t go far.
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Montreux, Switzerland
El Segundo, California because I liked the way Fred Sanford said it.
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How does entry work?
My mother-in-law is a filthy rich purebred Russian. We were there in 2017. Pre covid, pre war, pre It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
She, my MIL, also runs people over on dark unlit backcountry roads. @Bart Ell knows about it.
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The Guana Tolomato Matanzas Reserve and the Okefenokee Swamp. I don’t go far.
Never heard of this place. The beach looks pretty awesome from the pictures.
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There are several destinations/places that I would like to see but these days with all the craziness I've lost my appetite for flying. Estranged wife and I had plans to rent an old apparently haunted castle for a week in England. Pretty sure that's on ice for about 806 years. I love this continent and will see much more of it before I go and that will satisfy me.
FUCK Thailand, Fuck Paris, And Fuck Rome. Please ::) AND FUCK EGYPT!
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Luckenbach, TX and Jumbo, OH.
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Luckenbach, TX
Absolutely. Just for the song alone. "Down in Luckenbach Texas, there ain't nobody feelin' no pain" Coz there's nobody there - one could argue. If they have a saloon I'll go.
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Hopefully my next trip will be Burma, South India, and Sri Lanka.
I once went to Thailand with the intent of using that as a jumping off point to Burma, but it was so hot I just stayed in Bangkok for 2 weeks. Which was fine because I love the temples, palaces, museums, neighborhoods, street food, and used book stores (and new book stores) anyway. It's always going to be hot in all those places but it's still a shock stepping off the airconditioned plane, even at 11pm.
Maybe next time I'll fly to KL or Singapore, so I can at least be somewhere different if I decide to stay put.
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Absolutely. Just for the song alone. "Down in Luckenbach Texas, there ain't nobody feelin' no pain" Coz there's nobody there - one could argue. If they have a saloon I'll go.
A trip to Memphis for Blues, Nashville for country, 'Nawlins for Jazz, Seatle for grunge, and Austin for R&R would be a good trip. Even just one of them. I really hate burnt orange so maybe cross Austin off the list.
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Absolutely. Just for the song alone. "Down in Luckenbach Texas, there ain't nobody feelin' no pain" Coz there's nobody there - one could argue. If they have a saloon I'll go.
Here you go.
https://tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/387566
It’s pretty countryside, one of my favorite parts of Texas, just down the road from more “citified” Fredericksburg. I can see why that bastard LBJ had his ranch in the area.
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El Segundo, California because I liked the way Fred Sanford said it.
LOL!
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Wait, isn't that how everyone pronounces it?
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... Sri Lanka...
I would probably get all the way to Sigiriya, stand at the bottom looking up at the rickety rusted stairs, and say ''nope''.
One of the most interesting and mysterious places remaining from the ancient world.
Look at those massive, clawed feet, all that's left of a huge statue. The official claim is the statue was a lion, but look at them - they aren't lion feet - it seems like it has to have been Ravana.
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I rarely ever took a vacation. The places I've gone aren't really all that special.
I enjoyed my time in Key West. Spent 2 weeks between there and Orlando. I was invited by a friend. I never had the desire to go there but it was a good time.
I like the wooded and secluded areas. I spent some time in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania. It's in the NW part of the state. Camping, fishing, hiking. Sitting by the bonfire.
Oh. I've been to the Outer Banks (Carolina) on occasion. I'm not a beach guy but something about the breeze coming off the ocean makes me sleep soundly. So that's how lame I am. I went on vacation to sleep soundly. ;D
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Wait, isn't that how everyone pronounces it?
Bart hears it in a Canadian accent.
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Wait, isn't that how everyone pronounces it?
Who said anything about pronunciation?
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a Canadian accent.
There is no such thing... just like there is no American accent.
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I rarely ever took a vacation. The places I've gone aren't really all that special.
I enjoyed my time in Key West. Spent 2 weeks between there and Orlando. I was invited by a friend. I never had the desire to go there but it was a good time.
I like the wooded and secluded areas. I spent some time in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania. It's in the NW part of the state. Camping, fishing, hiking. Sitting by the bonfire.
Oh. I've been to the Outer Banks (Carolina) on occasion. I'm not a beach guy but something about the breeze coming off the ocean makes me sleep soundly. So that's how lame I am. I went on vacation to sleep soundly. ;D
There's a lot to be said for those trips too (like no parasites, no 12 year old's at remote checkpoints waving AK's around). Hiking, backpacking, mountain biking...
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Who said anything about pronunciation?
Oh good, so it wasn't my rural eastern Washington state pronunciation. 'Cause sometimes it is.
So Bart, what is it you liked about the way Fred said El Segundo?
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There is no such thing... just like there is no American accent.
I was joking boss. But you knew that.
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Oh good, so it wasn't my rural eastern Washington state pronunciation. 'Cause sometimes it is.
So Bart, what is it you liked about the way Fred said El Segundo?
Same thing I like about every 3 syllable word Fred Sanford says.
His voice gets hoarser on anything more than 2 syllables... probably because he was up all night snorting cocaine off stripper boobies.
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There's a lot to be said for those trips too (like no parasites, no 12 year old's at remote checkpoints waving AK's around). Hiking, backpacking, mountain biking...
Well, yeah, that is true. I'd rather deal with parasites than 12 year old's with AK's. Yikes! Dealing with none of that is better. ;)
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no 12 year old's at remote checkpoints waving AK's around
Texas?
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Same thing I like about every 3 syllable word Fred Sanford says.
His voice gets hoarser on anything more than 2 syllables... probably because he was up all night snorting cocaine off stripper boobies.
He could've been sniffing Borax off the boobies. :D
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Texas?
No, they have AR's
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Well, yeah, that is true. I'd rather deal with parasites that 12 year old's with AK's. Yikes! Dealing with none of that is better. ;)
I'll take the AK's, that's over in a few minutes.
I don't think Australia is on my list. They make it sound like every plant, animal, and bug is deadly.
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Domestically the Keweenaw peninsula - I like to be out in nature but I don't like crowds.
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Internationally, Bermuda. It is beautiful and you are not being accosted for money constantly as the residents are well off.
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This is pretty sweet, too. Skiing at Lake Tahoe.
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