travel thread

[steve dave]

3 weeks until ETP's Eurotrip begins. 

 

2 1/2 until sd's Kauai trip begins.   

MCI-ORD-DUB-LHR for the etp's

OMA-ORD-LAX-LIH
LIH-PHX-OMA
for the sd's

[EllToPay]

3 weeks until ETP's Eurotrip begins. 

 

2 1/2 until sd's Kauai trip begins.   

MCI-ORD-DUB-LHR for the etp's

OMA-ORD-LAX-LIH
LIH-PHX-OMA
for the sd's

 

[mocat]

Has anyone been to Guatemala? Girlfriend is considering a trip this summer with the school she teaches at, but her parents are concerned with safety issues. There's plenty of info online but I was wondering if anyone here could offer any first-hand info. tia

My sister lives in Guatemala.  She has had no problems with kidnappers.  She says the beer is very strong.

thx bloodfart

[_33]

I might be going to Fort Wayne IN this summer. Tips?

[michigancat]

I might be going to Fort Wayne IN this summer. Tips?

[Dugout DickStone]

New Orleans, tomorrow.  Meeting elite east coast private school boys at Old Absinthe then eating at Luke's.

[felix rex]

Has anyone been to Guatemala? Girlfriend is considering a trip this summer with the school she teaches at, but her parents are concerned with safety issues. There's plenty of info online but I was wondering if anyone here could offer any first-hand info. tia

It's easy to find trouble in Central America, but it's also easy to avoid it if you're not a dumbass (<--i.e. high school girls who "thought they could trust that Caribbean night club bouncer). Bad neighborhoods are easy to spot. Other than that, just avoid poaching xate in the Chiquibul forest and she should be fine. Tell her xenophobic parents not to freak out and just imagine the maras are rednecks and the coke is meth, and they should feel just as comfortable sending her to some armpit co-op/post-office rural KS town.

[michigancat]

imagine the maras are rednecks and the coke is meth, and they should feel just as comfortable sending her to some armpit co-op/post-office rural KS town.

[mocat]

imagine the maras are rednecks and the coke is meth, and they should feel just as comfortable sending her to some armpit co-op/post-office rural KS town.

My god, that was fantastic. Thanks f-r.

[felix rex]

imagine the maras are rednecks and the coke is meth, and they should feel just as comfortable sending her to some armpit co-op/post-office rural KS town.

My god, that was fantastic. Thanks f-r.

Always glad to defend Latin America by indirectly disparaging Mound Valley. I mean, if a place doesn't inspire you to caustic comparisons about places near your hometown, it's not worth visiting.

Edit: there are a couple places I would only recommend to people looking to lose their old identity.

[mocat]

imagine the maras are rednecks and the coke is meth, and they should feel just as comfortable sending her to some armpit co-op/post-office rural KS town.

My god, that was fantastic. Thanks f-r.

Always glad to defend Latin America by indirectly disparaging Mound Valley. I mean, if a place doesn't inspire you to caustic comparisons about places near your hometown, it's not worth visiting.

Edit: there are a couple places I would only recommend to people looking to lose their old identity.

  Yo tambien. My parents used to live in Ecuador; pretty sure I was conceived there.

[Dugout DickStone]

Is there some EMAW event in NO this weekend?  SWA  1791 is bumping with purp.  Or do emaws just spend their off season weekends jetting to elite American cities?

[Dugout DickStone]

How funny is it when adjacent gates are boarding at the same time but one is going to a fun city and the other is going some garbage place?

My gate is new Orleans the next one is Cleve.

     < my gate

   < Cleveland

[Dugout DickStone]

I think fake clams is on my flight. 

[EllToPay]

SWA

 

[Dugout DickStone]

SWA

 

Yah.  But biz select and free drinks

[mocat]

gross

[michigancat]

SWA

 

Yah.  But biz select and free drinks

If you're going MCI to MSY there is no better way to travel. These KC'ians need to remember where they are and where they're going.

[ChiComCat]

SWA

 

Yah.  But biz select and free drinks

If you're going MCI to MSY there is no better way to travel. These KC'ians need to remember where they are and where they're going.

I took ExpressJet from MCI to MSY back when they did the route.  Direct, satellite radio and $1 beers.  I wonder how they didn't make it?

[pissclams]

SWA is also the best direct to LAX- since Midwest cut their LAX-MCI flight. 

[EllToPay]

SWA

 

Yah.  But biz select and free drinks

If you're going MCI to MSY there is no better way to travel. These KC'ians need to remember where they are and where they're going.

wow, now the SF guy chimes in with his airport thoughts.   

[steve dave]

SWA is the only direct to Vegas from Omaha.  United and Delta are the only directs to NYC.  We have no directs to LA 

[mocat]

yeah, but, you have no assigned seat, is the main thing

[michigancat]

yeah, but, you have no assigned seat, is the main thing

oh wow the rough ridin' horror

[ChiComCat]

SWA is the only direct to Vegas from Omaha.  United and Delta are the only directs to NYC.  We have no directs to LA 

Sounds terrible not living close to a hub.