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Travel 4: All Around the World Same Song

Our fam (Mrs. b and I, three adult kids, and their partners) are thinking of a 4-5-day retreat in the Bar Harbor/Acadia area. We usually get a large airbnb with good kitchen facilities so we can enjoy hanging out together and make use of hiking opportunities and local flavor. They travel a quite a lot (wife and I don't), but none of us is familiar with coastal Maine. Thinking late summer. Advice?
 
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burd said:
Our fam (Mrs. b and I, three adult kids, and their partners) are thinking of a 4-5-day retreat in the Bar Harbor/Acadia area. We usually get a large airbnb with good kitchen facilities so we can enjoy hanging out together and make use of hiking opportunities and local flavor. They travel a quite a lot (wife and I don't), but none of us is familiar with coastal Maine. Thinking late summer. Advice?
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Mookie has not been there for 30y. But a fabulous locale. We would tent. Best kitchen is a bbq! Brings the “hanging out together” to the ^ power. Great bars too for after dinner. Great golf too!
 
mookie is trying to plan the June euro trip. Want to see Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, split, Zagreb, Athens.
have to shave some of these for a 10-14 day excursion.
anyone with experience?
 
mookie1995 said:
mookie is trying to plan the June euro trip. Want to see Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, split, Zagreb, Athens.
have to shave some of these for a 10-14 day excursion.
anyone with experience?
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Oh great. I'm getting worked up about 4 -5 days in Maine, and you're spending two weeks in those places?? I might just as well go to Fargo and hang out at Olive Garden.
 
burd said:
I might just as well go to Fargo and hang out at Olive Garden.
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Be sure to get a reservation.

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My family is heading to Puerto Rico in late February. Any suggestions from people who’ve been there?
 
mookie1995 said:
mookie is trying to plan the June euro trip. Want to see Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, split, Zagreb, Athens.
have to shave some of these for a 10-14 day excursion.
anyone with experience?
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Skip Zagreb. Compared to the rest of your inland cities, it's the least exciting.

Depending on what you want to see in Split and how much time you have, I could recommend Zadar instead. They're fairly similar cities and Zadar gets you closer to Plitvice National Park which is worth a visit. Otherwise, Split itself is worth a day but then take a ferry out to one of the islands for a second day.
 
Our youngest is a sophomore at UM. His gf that he met in h.s. here in the Philippines is also a sophomore, although she took this year's fall semester off from her college in Seoul to visit him for the duration in Minnesota. Recently after ending that visit she flew to Los Angeles to see family before she heads back to Asia.

He got a ticket to LAX for $220 and is traveling there to see her for the Thanksgiving break. 3 friends of theirs from HS that are in college in San Diego, Tempe and Vegas are also going to meet them for a reunion.

The gf will return here to Philippines in a few weeks. We are flying both kids to Bangkok for 3 weeks during their Winter break on Christmas Eve, the gf will fly with me to Bangkok (my wife goes this weekend) and 1 of the aforementioned friends is also coming.

When I was his age I thought I was adventurous crossing into Motomoros for a day when we went to South Padre on spring break.
 
Slap Shot said:
Our youngest is a sophomore at UM. His gf that he met in h.s. here in the Philippines is also a sophomore, although she took this year's fall semester off from her college in Seoul to visit him for the duration in Minnesota. Recently after ending that visit she flew to Los Angeles to see family before she heads back to Asia.

He got a ticket to LAX for $220 and is traveling there to see her for the Thanksgiving break. 3 friends of theirs from HS that are in college in San Diego, Tempe and Vegas are also going to meet them for a reunion.

The gf will return here to Philippines in a few weeks. We are flying both kids to Bangkok for 3 weeks during their Winter break on Christmas Eve, the gf will fly with me to Bangkok (my wife goes this weekend) and 1 of the aforementioned friends is also coming.

When I was his age I thought I was adventurous crossing into Motomoros for a day when we went to South Padre on spring break.
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Very true, and our kids' broader cross-cultural relationships will go a long way toward making this a less ignorant, bigoted world. Good for you and your wife for fostering that, Slap.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Looking around the potential radius of that thing, there's really no good option...
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Although considering the Twin Towers it may just collapse, not actually fall over.

I have to think that the straight up and downness is the gravitational backbone that holds the thing up, and if you lean it too much the whole structure will just unspool itself. It's not a tree -- it doesn't have a lot of lateral stability.

But I am not a materials scientist, I just built a lot of sandcastles.

Reminds me of the only earthquake I have ever been in. I was in a building with enormously wide and tall floor to ceiling windows, and I happened to be looking at one when it hit. It liquified, like the Star Gate; it was a pool at a 90 degree angle from the ground for a moment. And then it solidified again. But it's not as if it would have cracked and fallen in, it would have just showered like water. That's what I think would happen to that tower if it lost its vertical structural integrity -- it would effectively just be a tower of sandy Rice Krispies, and it would pour, not fall.
 
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Kepler said:
Although considering the Twin Towers it may just collapse, not actually fall over.

I have to think that the straight up and downness is the gravitational backbone that holds the thing up, and if you lean it too much the whole structure will just unspool itself. It's not a tree -- it doesn't have a lot of lateral stability.

But I am not a materials scientist, I just built a lot of sandcastles.

Reminds me of the only earthquake I have ever been in. I was in a building with enormously wide and tall floor to ceiling windows, and I happened to be looking at one when it hit. It liquified, like the Star Gate; it was a pool at a 90 degree angle from the ground for a moment. And then it solidified again. But it's not as if it would have cracked and fallen in, it would have just showered like water. That's what I think would happen to that tower if it lost its vertical structural integrity -- it would effectively just be a tower of sandy Rice Krispies, and it would pour, not fall.
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i thought I remember the twin towers were designed to collapse inwards.
 
Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.


Pray for me (and my wife's patience)
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.


Pray for me (and my wife's patience)
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Sounds like the storyline of a Netflix movie. Prayers might help. Who does one pray to for Vegas help? Lady Luck?
 
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Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.

Pray for me (and my wife's patience)
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I don't know what you've budgeted food & beverage-wise, but unless you head off Strip, which I do recommend if you've got the time, expect to pay a 30-40% markup (even more for ultra-premo liquor & wine) over the norm. Take a short ride over to the Double Down Saloon if you want to drink an Ass Juice in Bourdain's memory and/or just hang out at a really cool punk bar. I often go to the Peppermill for a massive brunch right before I leave town. Don't forget to cash out any vouchers from machine play before you depart.

Have fun!
 
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