Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
I would rather be driving in that case. I get bored otherwise.
I would rather be driving in that case. I get bored otherwise.
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Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
True. The one thing that I did when driving alone that always helped me was to play a movie with good quotable lines so I could listen to it. That helped keep me focused the last time I went on a 10+ hour drive on my own.
True. The one thing that I did when driving alone that always helped me was to play a movie with good quotable lines so I could listen to it. That helped keep me focused the last time I went on a 10+ hour drive on my own.
Biddco
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Im entertained either way. I love looking out the windows and viewing your surroundings. Plus I bring maps to look at and track our progress. It's a little more dull when you've been on the same road before but I try look for new things outside the car.
nmupiccdiva
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
We are currently making the drive straight back to Duluth. Not looking forward to seeing the damage there.
What a crazy, busy, fun week home though.
We are currently making the drive straight back to Duluth. Not looking forward to seeing the damage there.
What a crazy, busy, fun week home though.
Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
That's probably part of my problem. We make the same trip many times each year. But along the interstates I struggle looking for interesting things. Occasionally there is something, but it's usually minor or fleeting. My dad loves to drive and lives in an RV for half the year. I'm starting to wonder if I was adopted. Looking at my parents maybe hoping is a better word that wonder.
That's a little different because you can just pull off anywhere, anytime. But as a kid he drove the entire family to Florida. Yikes. Don't want to think about making that trip as an adult.
That's probably part of my problem. We make the same trip many times each year. But along the interstates I struggle looking for interesting things. Occasionally there is something, but it's usually minor or fleeting. My dad loves to drive and lives in an RV for half the year. I'm starting to wonder if I was adopted. Looking at my parents maybe hoping is a better word that wonder.
That's a little different because you can just pull off anywhere, anytime. But as a kid he drove the entire family to Florida. Yikes. Don't want to think about making that trip as an adult.
Ralph Baer
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
Interesting. A similar thing almost happened to my brother's family and me after the Yankees game a week ago Saturday. When my brother and I got to the platform there was a train waiting (There are extra trains after games.) My brother got on. I said "don't" because everyone wasn't there yet. Thankfully, the train was still there about a minute later when everyone was on the platform.God's country!
Morning, Loj.
Say RFalph! (Patman, too, you're a DC guy.) My daughter had a nice moment in DC. She and her troop were going down into the Metro, and they just missed a train. Then the doors opened again for that last-second adjustment they do sometimes, and my daughter -- who's been riding the subway in Hong Kong the last 4 years -- pounced, and was on the subway in a flash. Naturally the noobs travelling with her were navel-gazing by that point, and so the doors shut, and off goes my daughter, all alone on the Blue/Orange Line.
Fortunately it's pretty civilized on the Metro, and an attendant was right there on the platform; they called ahead to the next station, where someone got my daughter and put her on the train coming back. Ten minutes later and everything was back to normal. Still, my wife, who's there as a chaperone, said all her cool, calm, "my kids know how to handle themselves in the city" attitude was GONE when that train pulled away.
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Patman
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God's country!
Morning, Loj.
Say RFalph! (Patman, too, you're a DC guy.) My daughter had a nice moment in DC. She and her troop were going down into the Metro, and they just missed a train. Then the doors opened again for that last-second adjustment they do sometimes, and my daughter -- who's been riding the subway in Hong Kong the last 4 years -- pounced, and was on the subway in a flash. Naturally the noobs travelling with her were navel-gazing by that point, and so the doors shut, and off goes my daughter, all alone on the Blue/Orange Line.
Fortunately it's pretty civilized on the Metro, and an attendant was right there on the platform; they called ahead to the next station, where someone got my daughter and put her on the train coming back. Ten minutes later and everything was back to normal. Still, my wife, who's there as a chaperone, said all her cool, calm, "my kids know how to handle themselves in the city" attitude was GONE when that train pulled away.
Well... See... That's probably the right thing to do but I would have figured you guys would have a "wait at the next station" contingency for stuff like that... After all, having lived in hong kong for a spell.
To be honest I've been waiting for just that thing for awhile... So many tour groups and so little of an idea of what is going on.
DaveStPaul
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
We did; we had that exact plan; it's just that we discussed it with our kids when we moved -- in 2007. This incident reminded my wife and I that we need to go back over certain things now and then. It's sort of like asking a kid what his phone number is, and having them go, "Uhhhhhhh . . . " Whoops, time to go over that again!
We did; we had that exact plan; it's just that we discussed it with our kids when we moved -- in 2007.
This incident reminded my wife and I that we need to go back over certain things now and then. It's sort of like asking a kid what his phone number is, and having them go, "Uhhhhhhh . . . " Whoops, time to go over that again!Painted_Bandit
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Just booked my flight for a week trip out to Colorado Springs for work. Anyone have any suggestions of places to see if I have time which i probably will in the evening?
Just booked my flight for a week trip out to Colorado Springs for work. Anyone have any suggestions of places to see if I have time which i probably will in the evening?
Twitch Boy
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You might not be going anywhere if the wildfire west of the city gets any closer.
I'd say go to the outdoor arcade in Manitou Springs, but apparently said city has been evacuated.
Also, obviously the Golden Bee.
You might not be going anywhere if the wildfire west of the city gets any closer.
I'd say go to the outdoor arcade in Manitou Springs, but apparently said city has been evacuated.
Also, obviously the Golden Bee.
bigblue_dl
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
I second the Golden Bee. That was my favorite place when I was out there.
Painted_Bandit
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
So far I was planning on Garden of Gods and the Golden Bee for sure, possibly take a pi55 on Colorado College, and pro rodeo hall of fame
So far I was planning on Garden of Gods and the Golden Bee for sure, possibly take a pi55 on Colorado College, and pro rodeo hall of fame
Siouxfaninseattle
Fighting Sioux Fan Forever
Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
If you have a car, go to the top of Pikes Peak.
If you have a car, go to the top of Pikes Peak.
bigblue_dl
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Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame was closed when I was out there, I wanted to see it, but it didn't work out.
mookie1995
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
must have been when tyler was 8, but he and i were checking into a hotel in columbus and he got in the elevator and i went to pick up a bag.... doors closed. i stood there and after a couple minutes the doors opened and he was standing there. i walked in and hit 8 and away we went. we never said anything 
We did; we had that exact plan; it's just that we discussed it with our kids when we moved -- in 2007.
must have been when tyler was 8, but he and i were checking into a hotel in columbus and he got in the elevator and i went to pick up a bag.... doors closed. i stood there and after a couple minutes the doors opened and he was standing there. i walked in and hit 8 and away we went.
we never said anything 
Biddco
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That's something that has been lost since the expansion of the freeways. You do not go through all these small towns, that is entertaining to me. An RV would be awesome. Minus the gas mileage and the fact that they lose half their value once you drive them off the lot.That's probably part of my problem. We make the same trip many times each year. But along the interstates I struggle looking for interesting things. Occasionally there is something, but it's usually minor or fleeting. My dad loves to drive and lives in an RV for half the year. I'm starting to wonder if I was adopted. Looking at my parents maybe hoping is a better word that wonder.
Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
BPH, MNS, and I were tossing around the idea of sometime making a return trip to Traverse, but with 6-8 people and renting an RV for a week, taking the southern UP route on the way there, and the northern UP route on the way back, finding diners/taking photos of the scenery/etc. Basically spend one day in TC, and the other six just travelling around (which would average about 3-4 hours a day in actual driving).
BPH, MNS, and I were tossing around the idea of sometime making a return trip to Traverse, but with 6-8 people and renting an RV for a week, taking the southern UP route on the way there, and the northern UP route on the way back, finding diners/taking photos of the scenery/etc. Basically spend one day in TC, and the other six just travelling around (which would average about 3-4 hours a day in actual driving).
Beer Pong Horn
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Re: Rep Retirement #151: Stop Letting Baukin make polls!
Hell, a round trip around Lake Michigan would be great too, or maybe a round trip of the north and south shores of the UP. It'd be perfect for RVing, with campgrounds pretty common and plenty of random places to just park if we felt like it.
For that matter, the huskyfans probably HAVE done both of those trips.
Hell, a round trip around Lake Michigan would be great too, or maybe a round trip of the north and south shores of the UP. It'd be perfect for RVing, with campgrounds pretty common and plenty of random places to just park if we felt like it.
For that matter, the huskyfans probably HAVE done both of those trips.
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