Stijn!!

[Oh Haha]

I generally avoid WalMart at all costs but today I went to pick up chlorine on sale. Maybe it was the time of day{11am} or karma or something else but I didn't run into anyone that irritated me like so many times before.

Hmmmm, maybe NOT having the Clint Eastwood Gran Torino look on my face helped?





nahhhhh

[flipper35]

We have been there at odd times where it was eerily not terribly unpleasant. The Wal-Mart in El Centro the best time to go was 3:00am. Otherwise take a cattle prod.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

I generally avoid WalMart at all costs but today I went to pick up chlorine on sale. Maybe it was the time of day{11am} or karma or something else but I didn't run into anyone that irritated me like so many times before.

Hmmmm, maybe NOT having the Clint Eastwood Gran Torino look on my face helped?





nahhhhh

I have not been inside of a Wal-Mart in about 20 years. I do shop at Sam's but never Wal-Mart.

I have a theory that there is a committee that is organized just to get in my way. On a regular basis I can walk to a check out area and every register has a line. It can be a Lowe's, grocery store or restaurant. As soon as I get checked out there is no line anywhere. It happens all the time. On rare occasions (very rare) somehow the committee screws up and they all get there late and I am just finishing up and leaving and the crowd swarms in. I figure they all get fired for missing me.

[flipper35]

Another vacation option, Toronto. See the Canadian side of Lake Ontario and hit Huron on the way over or back.

[GH85Carrera]

We will have driven a LOT by the time we are ready to head for home. We have three days to get home so we have the option of two LONG days or three decent travel days. Toronto would be nice, but it is too far out of the way.

Actually looking at the map it is not bad.

The one thing is international data and calling are expensive. We will lok at every option of the way home.

It is a 25 hour or 26 hour trip one way.

[Jim Richards]

Brent, your comment reminds me that one of these days, I want to charter a sailboat to cruise the Apostle Islands.

[flipper35]

When we were up there we saw some swells that made my wife decide the ferry wouldn't be a good thing to go on that day. We would love to go view them on a calm day but it sounds like they happen once or twice a lifetime.

The swells were 3-4 feet at the dock, higher out where the sailboats were bobbing like corks.

[Porsche-poor]

my wife will not go on boats at all. she looks at them and gets sea sick.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Brent, your comment reminds me that one of these days, I want to charter a sailboat to cruise the Apostle Islands.

An acquaintance of mine had a very nice boat shipped up to Muskogee, OK on a barge. He and his wife and he and two other couples drove it all the way down the Mississippi to New Orleans, stayed close to shore and went all the way around Florida then up the Inter-coastal waterway and ended up in Martha's Vineyard. It took them a long time and they had to hire a Captain for parts of the voyage. They had a blast all the way. I would think a few weeks of that would be more than enough, but they stuck it out for the entire trip.

I always wanted to know how much that cost them. I can bet it was LOT.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

my wife will not go on boats at all. she looks at them and gets sea sick.

Much like my wife.

On our honeymoon we went to the Bahamas. We took a glass bottom boat out into a harbor and it was very calm. She got sea sick.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by flipper35

When we were up there we saw some swells that made my wife decide the ferry wouldn't be a good thing to go on that day. We would love to go view them on a calm day but it sounds like they happen once or twice a lifetime.

The swells were 3-4 feet at the dock, higher out where the sailboats were bobbing like corks.

Arrrhh, that's just the gentle rocking motion of Mother Nature's bosom...puts ya to sleep, maties!

[flipper35]

For her it isn't a gentle rocking motion. She told me she gets car sick when she is driving sometimes. She got motion sick when we canoed out on Lake Michigan. I can't imagine her being out where the swells were high enough to drench the cars on the ferry, let alone on a small boat. She probably would have been sick for days.

When I was in flight training doing the "recovery from unusual attitudes" under the hood I never got sick, even when my instructor was starting to feel it. When I was in a full motion flight sim with my daughter I broke a wing off the F18 doing an inverted bunt maneuver at mach 1.1 and we tumbled hard enough it bruised the bone in my shoulder and it didn't bother my daughter or me. Funny thing after that one, there were a couple retired naval aviators there and they both went up to and talked to my daughter after that about being an aviator. I did get sick on a motion ride that was an outer space roller coaster and the motions were NOT synchronized with the video.

[GH85Carrera]

When I was about 24 or so I had to work a photo shoot late and met my dad to go deep sea fishing in Apalachicola, FL. No one else in the family wanted to go out in the choppy waters. The boat was rocking around and it was one of the larger tourists fishing boats. Every passenger on the boat except my dad and myself was sea sick. They were all chumming the waters for us. Each of us had several crewmen to help us bate the lines and gather up the fish.

I remember at one point some dude that looked GREEN was next to me and my dad came over and handed me a beer and a sandwich. The green goblin guy next to me lost it.

We had a great time but for some reason there was a huge rush of passengers to get off the boat. We took our time and they took our catch to a fish processing place and had them filleted. It was mostly red snapper.

[Jim Richards]

Any of you guys ever have a waterbed?

[Oh Haha]

I did when I was single. My boss gave it to me as I didn't have a bed when I moved across the state for the company.

[GH85Carrera]

Ok we need to arrest Mother Nature. There is a thunderstorm coming in backwards. Is is moving in, in an illegal direction! From east to west. Storms almost always come in from the southwest. This has to be against the laws of nature. Just rain falling so that is ok.

[RKDinOKC]

Had a waterbed in the 80's. Was very low end generic compared to what they have now.
Got rid of it when it busted transforming into a raised wading pool.
Luckily was able to siphon all the water out without ruining the floors or house.

Friend and his wife currently got a new one. After trying them all they like it better than temperpedic or sleep number.

[Oh Haha]

Got rid of mine when my wife started staying over. Apparently, a single size waterbed isn't big enough for 2.

I didn't have a kitchen table, either. She brought hers when she moved in.

Yeah, I know. We were sinners! Oooooooo

[GH85Carrera]

My wife had a tube water bed. You for sure knew it was a waterbed, but it was not like the old style big bladder beds.
It went away long ago.

[GH85Carrera]

TGIF. I do like the short weeks.

I think my wife is starting to spool up to getting ready for the trip. Tomorrow I will spend the time to pack the 911 with everything except the clothes and the ice chest. It is a small ice chest they handed out the goodie bag in for the San Diego parade back in 2007. It has wheels and fits behind the passenger seat in the 911. It fits perfect.