Have been to Europe four times. England, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Italy was by far my favorite. Nowhere is as awesome as Rome. Incredible. Florence pretty cool as well.
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You mean the guy that just started a thread about his big trip to San Francisco and Wine Country?
Actually, I think Chattanooga is a neat little town. Has a cool vibe to it.
I found Australia a little overrated. Went to Sydney, Cairns, several days on a live aboard on the Great Barrier Reef, and then up to the Daintree Rainforest. Don't get me wrong, there were neat things to see, but for as hyped as Australia is, it underwhelmed a little.
I found Australia a little overrated. Went to Sydney, Cairns, several days on a live aboard on the Great Barrier Reef, and then up to the Daintree Rainforest. Don't get me wrong, there were neat things to see, but for as hyped as Australia is, it underwhelmed a little.
We summer in Canada for 4.5 days a year, so I'm not sweating it either.
Usually we'll find an excuse (not hard!) to head on up to Ottawa first and hit T-Dot on the way back. Fun Fact: Ottawa which is much farther from Toronto than you would think, so we take two days to drive since we have a small child in tow.
Luckily, there is a great Best Western at the same turnpike exit as Attica Prison (the famous one from the movies). So it was pretty cool that we got to sleep easy in that fancy, vacant, brownfield wonderland with mobs of convicted murders and rapists a stone's throw away from my family last year.
5 Stars, will do again, yearly, per sempre.
Usually we'll find an excuse (not hard!) to head on up to Ottawa first and hit T-Dot on the way back. Fun Fact: Ottawa which is much farther from Toronto than you would think, so we take two days to drive since we have a small child in tow.
Luckily, there is a great Best Western at the same turnpike exit as Attica Prison (the famous one from the movies). So it was pretty cool that we got to sleep easy in that fancy, vacant, brownfield wonderland with mobs of convicted murders and rapists a stone's throw away from my family last year.
5 Stars, will do again, yearly, per sempre.
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Chattanooga = Neat
Australia = Underwhelming
Got that down... thanks, LC.
Australia = Underwhelming
Got that down... thanks, LC.
But isn't this like the first time he's left the NKY region?* Kid has a right to promote that trip a little imo.
* just going on info I've gathered from you guys about his tendency of being a hermit.
* just going on info I've gathered from you guys about his tendency of being a hermit.
I'm a big US travel guy, couldn't wait to hit all 50 states, etc. Knew my wife wouldn't want any part of Alaska, so I flew to Anchorage and drove the living **** out of it, at summer solstice time when it never really gets dark.
Drove up to Denali, then back through Anchorage and down to Kenai Peninsula, Seward, and my favorite, Homer. Incredible scenery. Incredibly vast and mind-boggingly huge.
Drove 1,500 miles but if you look at that state on a map, I barely made a dent in it. I loved it, but it's definitely not for everyone.
This is the most GD Louisville tweet I've seen in a long time. You guys want to talk up your baseball and field hockey and f***ing quidditch teams like anyone cares, have fun. But no one wants to hear about your damn quick recall team.
Marathon and watching penguins and whales. We have to basically be on standby in Chile to be ready to fly out at anytime when the weather permits to get down there, run it, look around a bit, and get back.
To each their own. I get enough penguin action hanging out with Anth. Would love to hit some vineyards in chile tho...
My goal has been to hit all 7 continents by the time I turn 40, so I've got 2-3 years to work Antarctica into the rotation. The other 6 are already in the books. Wife is not as excited as I am, and I haven't even talked to her at length about Drake Passage yet.
Pacific northwest is amazing, but I pretty much spend my days yearning to get back to the cape.
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For somebody who played quick recall in high school and was good enough at it to mention it in GYERO a few times in 10 years of posting, I thought it was an absolutely insane post by Louisville.
College quick recall is janky as all get out.
There is plenty of ******** in Chattanooga. I'm not sure I ever hyped up anything about other than living there.
There was some stuff to do downtown and some outdoors stuff. For young families there is a good museum and aquarium. It's also getting really murdery there.
Haven't been back or thought about going back since I drove the Uhaul out of there.
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There was some stuff to do downtown and some outdoors stuff. For young families there is a good museum and aquarium. It's also getting really murdery there.
Haven't been back or thought about going back since I drove the Uhaul out of there.
/hype
Yeah dawg. Again- for families with young ones- the downtown sets up for a good weekend trip. We had lots of visitors come through and all seemed to have a good time.
But my last year or so it got much worse as far as drugs and violent crime. Getting outside the small touristy downtown bubble or the north shore can be a bit of a risk. Like all other decent size cities I guess.
There's a trail down there that's either 4 miles long or 6 miles long and we'll do laps to get the 26.2. January is the warm season so daytime temps hover around freezing. The wind is the thing to worry about.
Only 800 or so have done all 6 world major marathons, so I figure if I do all 7 continents also that will put me in some pretty elite company.
(My vacations have sucked dick as of late and I blame my Canuck wife.)
When in in Chattanooga look up Cascade Outdoors. A friend of mine, Kip Gilliam, is the owner/operator and he will hook you up. I cannot however give recs on local food establishments.
I did Alaska in March so there was still a shitload of snow. But I could not get over the mountains. I mean they call what we have in Eastern Kentucky Mountains but those are just hills compared to what Alaska has. Also hit up Seward and took a cruise on the North Atlantic. Just fantastic to see all the sea life. I'd love to hit it up in the summer to see Denali.
-Just feels like Rob is somewhere listening to "Lose Yourself" on a loop and jotting down notes so that he can come in here later today and blast Wodie with a vicious, albeit misspelled, post mocking his European adventure. I, for one, cannot wait.
-So Chris Cross is gone completely from WLXG? Hope it's not for a reason related to death/sickness, but if it's simply that someone finally realized how terrible he was, I'm glad. Still won't listen to the two slapnuts they have on that show, or that station at all for that matter, but I just feel better knowing that he's no longer on the air subjecting people to god-awful catchphrases and his daily reading of whatever John Clay wrote.
-Europe with the family when the oldest graduates from college, so basically 10 years from now. Gotta mix in some domestic bucket list trips before then(Hawaii, NYC, Chattanooga). The kid bought her own Lonely Planet book about Europe and is already making notes. Two-week trip down the Pacific Coast Highway next summer.
-So Chris Cross is gone completely from WLXG? Hope it's not for a reason related to death/sickness, but if it's simply that someone finally realized how terrible he was, I'm glad. Still won't listen to the two slapnuts they have on that show, or that station at all for that matter, but I just feel better knowing that he's no longer on the air subjecting people to god-awful catchphrases and his daily reading of whatever John Clay wrote.
-Europe with the family when the oldest graduates from college, so basically 10 years from now. Gotta mix in some domestic bucket list trips before then(Hawaii, NYC, Chattanooga). The kid bought her own Lonely Planet book about Europe and is already making notes. Two-week trip down the Pacific Coast Highway next summer.
I have never been to Europe. My list of European cities visited are in name only.
London, KY
Paris, KY
As close as I've came to Europe is neck deep in the Atlantic in Nassau.
London, KY
Paris, KY
As close as I've came to Europe is neck deep in the Atlantic in Nassau.
In summary, Potsie should be applauded for not doing his job, and things could be special because there aren't enough gals. 
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Is there anything more tone deaf than the "show your taxes" narrative? You'd think after Bevin trounced Conway in November that the media would get the message that the general public just doesn't give two ***** about seeing candidates' taxes. I just don't understand the fascination here. Everyone running for anything substantial has to complete a detailed financial disclosure document. What's the point in potentially deterring good people from running by demanding more intrusion into their privacy? I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm just tired of hearing about this lame ****.
Wednesday Randoms:
- The amazing thing about BTI is how terrible he is across the board. His stupid opinions aren't just limited to one sport.
- The Steven Adams non-story was one of the things I hate most about ESPN these days. Everyone knew he wasn't being racist with his monkeys line. There was no uproar beyond maybe a few Twiiter dumbasses and sportswriters pondering if there should be an uproar. So, ESPN perpetuates this controversy only to have all of their talking heads deem it a non-story. Pure dumbassery.
- DeAaron Fox's mixtape is fun. It's easy to see why Cal loves this dude so much- he's long, fast, quick and athletic AF. He doesn't have a bad-looking shot either. Plus, he's got that Calipari swagger about him. He's going to drive us nuts at times and need to be reigned in in the halfcourt, but once he puts it altogether- watch out.
- Besides the misplaced Raptors, these playoffs are getting interesting. The Cavs are playing exactly the way everyone thought they should be playing in 2016- with Love at 5. The Warriors are the Warriors, and no one has a better duo than hungry OKC. Exciting times for NBA Guy. I'm almost rooting for Cleveland to win it all. Get back to me on that.
- Won't happen considering the fact they already have 26 guards, but the Suns are in perfect position to go with a poor man's Splash Brothers with Murray and Booker.
- So, the Sixers have Embiid (finally), Okafor, Noel and Saric (one of these days). All valuable pieces but all niche players in 2016's NBA. Simmons is probably the guy at #1, but he can't play with any of these guys. If you're 4 can't shoot, your 5 better be able to somewhat (Towns, Davis, etc). Time to make some trades.
- Lakers looking tough with that Ingram/Russell/Randle trio. Add a FA superstar (Westbrook?) in a year or two, and all of the sudden, they're back contending again.
- I hate the MFer, but I don't see how Brice Johnson isn't a lottery pick.
- The amazing thing about BTI is how terrible he is across the board. His stupid opinions aren't just limited to one sport.
- The Steven Adams non-story was one of the things I hate most about ESPN these days. Everyone knew he wasn't being racist with his monkeys line. There was no uproar beyond maybe a few Twiiter dumbasses and sportswriters pondering if there should be an uproar. So, ESPN perpetuates this controversy only to have all of their talking heads deem it a non-story. Pure dumbassery.
- DeAaron Fox's mixtape is fun. It's easy to see why Cal loves this dude so much- he's long, fast, quick and athletic AF. He doesn't have a bad-looking shot either. Plus, he's got that Calipari swagger about him. He's going to drive us nuts at times and need to be reigned in in the halfcourt, but once he puts it altogether- watch out.
- Besides the misplaced Raptors, these playoffs are getting interesting. The Cavs are playing exactly the way everyone thought they should be playing in 2016- with Love at 5. The Warriors are the Warriors, and no one has a better duo than hungry OKC. Exciting times for NBA Guy. I'm almost rooting for Cleveland to win it all. Get back to me on that.
- Won't happen considering the fact they already have 26 guards, but the Suns are in perfect position to go with a poor man's Splash Brothers with Murray and Booker.
- So, the Sixers have Embiid (finally), Okafor, Noel and Saric (one of these days). All valuable pieces but all niche players in 2016's NBA. Simmons is probably the guy at #1, but he can't play with any of these guys. If you're 4 can't shoot, your 5 better be able to somewhat (Towns, Davis, etc). Time to make some trades.
- Lakers looking tough with that Ingram/Russell/Randle trio. Add a FA superstar (Westbrook?) in a year or two, and all of the sudden, they're back contending again.
- I hate the MFer, but I don't see how Brice Johnson isn't a lottery pick.
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