The Travel Thread

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Gutter, thanks for getting "It's a Small World" stuck in my head.
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Gutter's supah power. . .
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pdub wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:16 am I think of the money that i'd need to spend to go to either Disneyland/Disneyworld and I think of the return on investment.

It sounds like paying for front row season tickets to the WNBA Fever.
Or 750 dollars just to sit at a hightop at Jeffersons.
There was a family wearing t-shirts that said Disneyland - Most expensive day ever.
I definitely didn't get much a return on my money spent but I didn't get much of a return on my Clippers and Rams tickets either.
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The population is just so high now; things we could do as kids are SRO and over-crowded. Disney was bad in the 70s, can only imagine how bad it gets now. And so much more expensive. It will teach kids patience or hatred towards their fellow man. Just getting into a Shirley sponsored chain restaurant down here is intensely difficult (someone got me a gift card which will probably be impossible to use to Road House). They spend freakish amounts on gourmet kitchens and never use them. But eggs were costly by God.
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japhy wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:43 am
RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:53 am Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice Beach
Sunny Blue in Santa Monica.

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I'm sure it's terrific but I wouldn't eat their food if you paid me. Not my thing. I know, my loss.
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jhawks99 wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:47 am Gutter, thanks for getting "It's a Small World" stuck in my head.
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Could be worse. Well, probably not.
So.... I had it on my list because it was my mother's favorite so I was going to do it for her sake but thankfully the ride was temporarily closed. when it re-opened, I had a "lightning" pass reservation for noon but decided to leave the park instead.
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Sparko wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:18 am The population is just so high now; things we could do as kids are SRO and over-crowded. Disney was bad in the 70s, can only imagine how bad it gets now. And so much more expensive. It will teach kids patience or hatred towards their fellow man. Just getting into a Shirley sponsored chain restaurant down here is intensely difficult (someone got me a gift card which will probably be impossible to use to Road House). They spend freakish amounts on gourmet kitchens and never use them. But eggs were costly by God.
They have a limit but they still pack people in like sardines.
Yes, too expensive. But as I say, they have never forced anyone to go. It's your choice if you want to pay the high cost/s.
Happiest place on earth and yet an abundance of crying kids and kids throwing temper tantrums. I would not be pleased as a parent if my kid wasn't happy.
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Going through security at the Orlando airport with all the people with a stroller and multiple kids who never fly and don’t know the routine leaving exhausted after multiple days in the sun and humidity in a bad mood because they just spent several thousand dollars and now their vacation is over was always a challenge, especially for them.

For 7 years I could see and hear the nightly Disney World fireworks 365 days/year, and to say I had/have no desire to go is/was an understatement.
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japhy wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:43 am
RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:53 am Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice Beach
Sunny Blue in Santa Monica.

https://www.sunnyblueinc.com/about
Also my nightmare.
This coast is just not for me.
( I did not visit Venice beach but did the other two. Never again )
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Rob at Revere Overland posted his 2024 montage of trips in the US.

Best seen on a big screen, some amazing footage. He identifies each shot by state.

“whatever that means”
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