BroadwayLionIs THAT why we have been seening so many California ads. We never see any New York ads.
Are you talking about the bottom pop-ups?
If so, all mine lately have been for companies wanting to manage my employees benefit accounts for me.
Those ads are a hoot sometimes.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
hon30critter I suggested that we follow in the order in which they were suggested. That put us in California in July thanks to John (York1).
Is THAT why we have been seening so many California ads. We never see any New York ads.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Attuvian1Is taste gone to the same extent?
Taste is not completely gone. Everything tastes bland and watered-down. My coffee tastes terrible. I barely taste salt at all.
Buttery flavors still seem strong. I ate some popcorn, and all I tasted was the butter. It was gross.
I still taste sweetness, but not flavors. I have some assorted fruit bars, and they all taste exactly the same to me now.
NorthBritSome days it returns. Strange.
If my sense of taste returned I would order a pizza immediately.
No one ever gave me a compliment on my taste, as I recall
Nice!
REA_SP2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Janie.
Taste and smell. Since my bout of Covid most days I have lost both senses of taste and smell. Some days it returns. Strange.
Food on cruise ships. Admittedly we eat a bit more food than normal. We are on holiday. A nice meal served in the restaurant is for us. No. No. No. We do not like the buffet.
Then there are people who come into the restaurant and want a table next to a window. (Other diners sitting away from the windows glance now and again to admire such a lovely view.) The people sit at the table near the window. Then ask for the blinds to be lowered. The sun is in their eyes!!! Why do they ask to sit there then spoil everybodys enjoyment?
Rant over.
Short lines for August gets my vote.
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
SeeYou190 I lost my sense of smell. I can bury my nose in a jar of Vick's Vap-O-Rub and inhale deeply... and nothing. This is weird. -Kevin
I lost my sense of smell. I can bury my nose in a jar of Vick's Vap-O-Rub and inhale deeply... and nothing.
This is weird.
I just saw Tstage is in Users Online box!
I hope he comes back. He has been missed.
California Is A Beautiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
MisterBeasleyI vote for the Short Line option.
I vote for that as well.... Might be able to put up a bunch of photos from the FLRR and maybe even the RG&V Museum (Guess that would qualify as a "short line"....).
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I vote for the Short Line option. In four years here in Delaware, I have only seen a few strings of rolling stock, mostly grain hoppers because about the only industry of any size that uses railroad shipping is poultry, or "Big Chicken."
The closest track to me is less than ten miles away, but I've never seen a train there. In a state as small as Delaware, pretty much any line will be, by definition, a short line.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley It seemed like a lot of passengers were just there to eat.
I have a few friends that go on cruises. They tell me things like "You would not believe the food, you can eat anything at any time you like, all you want".
That does not appeal to me. I love food, but not buffets. I would rather spend hours at home preparing a wonderfully decadent huge meal for myself from scratch than go eat a mass quantitiy from a steam tray bar.
The only exception is about once a year I do like to visit a highly-rated oriental buffet if I am travelling. Oh... and of course I love a visit to a good Brazillian Steakhouse.
Going on a cruise just to eat at buffets seems like a weird way to spend a vacation.
hon30critterDianne and I are going on a train trip!! We have booked a date in late September to spend the day visiting the Agawa Canyon via the Agawa Canyon train tour.
That sounds like a lot of fun. I did a quick Google, and it looks breath-taking. Please do share some pictures when you get back.
York1My roof damage pales next to some neighbors who lost all their siding and had all the windows broken out.
After Hurricane Charley I had my house upgraded to Cat-5 Dade County Standards. Since then, I have made it through every storm with much lesss damage than all my neighbors. I also do not have a fence or a pool enclosure. Those are always destroyed.
Good morning, everyone. It's time for the best meal of the day -- breakfast.
We had a nice rain come through last night. It was nice because ... the grass is too wet to cut today, so I will have to find something else to do.
I got the insurance settlement on a new roof. The hail about a month ago did a real number on some houses. My roof damage pales next to some neighbors who lost all their siding and had all the windows broken out.
Dave, your plans for the diner sound great to me. I will have to travel around my area to get some photos. We have several short lines here. Your train trip sounds great!
One more shot of Amtrak's Surfliner in California:
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
I hope you both have a Great Time, Dave, but I do expect photos!
I do plan on taking lots of pictures. I hope they will still allow us to lean out of the vestibule windows to get shots of the train in the curves and on the bridges.
I also hope that the weather cooperates. September on Lake Superior can range from hot and sunny to gale force cold winds with snow and rain in a very short period of time!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterDianne and I are going on a train trip!!
Dianne and I are going on a train trip!! We have booked a date in late September to spend the day visiting the Agawa Canyon via the Agawa Canyon train tour.
https://agawatrain.com/
The 10 hour tour starts in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and makes its way north along the shores of Lake Superior and into the Agawa canyon. The scenery is fantastic, and it will be even more so because the fall colours will be in their full splendor.
The train stops in the Agawa canyon for 90 minutes before returning to Sault Ste. Marie, which Canadians affectionately refer to as 'the Soo'. There is also an American Sault. Ste. Marie (right across the river from the Canadian Soo that flows from Lake Superior to Lake Huron), also referred to as 'the Soo'.
One interesting fact about the train is that, if you want to go canoeing, hunting or fishing in the back country, the train will stop wherever you want it to, and it will pick you up whenever you are scheduled to come out of the bush. Bringing a canoe along is no problem, nor is hauling out your catch.
The last time we were on the train was in the mid 80s. Then it was pulled by Algoma Central FPs.
We have rented a cottage right on Lake Superior for a week so we will turn the trip into a mini vacation.
Hi folks!
We have four days to go before we need to move the Diner. In June we had three good ideas which I suggested that we follow in the order in which they were suggested. That put us in California in July thanks to John (York1). Thank you for all the great contributions! The next suggestion by Paul (Lazers) was to visit some short lines which, unless there are some objections, would be a great theme for August. We also have Jim's (up831) in reserve for September.
Please let me know if you are happy with the above. Silence will be treated as a 'YES' vote!
I don't want to hog the relocation of the Diner. If you want to do it, please speak up and I will gladly step aside. I will even help you with it if need be.
THERE! NOW the Leopard has the top of the page to himself.
You all come and join the Leopard for Lunch.
If you are not at the taable, then you are on the menu!
We've been on Norwegian and Windstar cruises, where "we" is a variable. The Norwegian ship was a cruise around the Hawaiian islands, and we used it mostly just for eating and sleeping. I was amazed that a lot of passengers would get off the boat in the morning and board the bus to ... Walmart? Or, they would take a package bus tour of the island that basically stopped at every souvenir shop. We arranged for a rental car every day and did what WE wanted. It seemed like a lot of passengers were just there to eat. Some of them would literally have not fit through the door of our tiny cabin.
The Windstar ship was totally different. These were Caribbean cruises on a small ship, 300 or so passengers. The food was much better. I would never take another large ship cruise. I'm glad to have taken one big-ship cruise with my daughter when she was young, but from now on I will enjoy the quiet luxury of a small ship.
I should give a warning about a high-speed catamaran between Maine and Nova Scotia, now possibly defunct. The ads and their website make it out to be like a luxury cruise, but it was really like being crammed into a big airplane. Because it was a catamaran built for speed, the outer surface was not used, except for a tiny platform on the rear which was the smoking section. Inside was set up like four large airplane cabins, each with a mandatory film being shown. Food was a snack bar. There was a noisy casino area, too. Skip this one.
Chiropracter did his song and dance on my back... cost an arm and a leg...
Had a Jimmy Jophns for afters and no am 'ome agqawin.
York1 At the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, CA. On the right is an example of how train locomotives are supposed to look: Have a good day, everyone.
At the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, CA. On the right is an example of how train locomotives are supposed to look:
Have a good day, everyone.
Hello diners. Just a quick check in. Starting to feel better here, but a little ways to go yet. I've been lucky compared to what some people have gone through. My wife got sick a day or two behind me. Loads of symptoms, but keeps testing negative. A similar thing happened to some friends of ours where their entire household had it and all kept testing negative on antigen tests. PCR tests showed them all to be positive. Where I've had the camper, she has taken our room and upstairs bathroom to quarantine in. Our kids get the rest of the house and are staying gone for the most part. Strategic use of fans to keep air moving in the right directions in the house to keep the rest of it as virus free as possible. My wife is also masking up 100% of the time in the house. The kids feel great (knock on wood).
It's funny as my wife will text me asking if I want to meet her out on the deck for a while. It feels like we're being sneaky about something. Kind of like being a teenager again.
Mike
Good evening Diners. Brunhilda. A drink for anyone in the Diner tonight. Put it on my tab.
IMG_2255 by David Harrison, on Flickr
John. Princess Cruises are a firm favourite for us. Though I tease Dawn on how great British Steam Navigation Company was in days gone. Old style liners with an amazing atmosphere.
Kevin. Good to hear you are on the mend. Hopefully Mike will visit soon.
A number of Diners are missing. A speedy return (if they wish) is called for.
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
MisterBeasleyOn the cruises I remember, our lifeboat drills were pretty basic.
On the cruises I remember we never had a lifeboat drill. As a matter of fact I don't remember seeing any lifeboats on our ship.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, and coffee, please.
I love all the old advertisements. I think it reminds me of growing up in the 1950s & 60s, when these ads were in every magazine. They made travel look so fantastic.
David, I'm not sure what your favorite company is, but in our travels, Princess Cruises were our best experience.
Hi Kevin!
Glad you are feeling better!
SeeYou190If you are thinking of relocating to Florida, maybe you shouldn't.
I have family in Florida that is telling me the same thing.....
Got hooked up to the 5g Fiber Network here in the area. Yep, 'puter is very, very fast!!!! Haven't been able to get into the email part to switch that over to my computer yet so I am sort of in the middle of things.
Hoping to take a long drive with a friend sometime this week if the sun keeps shining. We will likely drive along Lake Ontario and then stop for lunch or do that in reverse order.
SeeYou190 I am feeling better. -Kevin
I am feeling better.
Attuvian1Kevin, Get your back end in to be seen pronto. There's a couple of oral treatments that significantly reduce the probabilities that it could get really nasty, but only if you begin them in the first five days. Going through that in our house right now. Plaxovid is the name of one of them [EDIT: Paxlovid].
Called my doctor on Friday, I asked if he could prescribe it over the phone. Was told that the Governor's office would not allow them to prescribe any more doses without review.
WHAT?
Went to a walk-in clinic on Saturday. The doctor there would not prescribe any medication because he said directions from the Governor's office regarding additional new Covid cases would not allow it. However, If I get bad enough I can still always go to the hospital.
So now in Florida, our Governor is directing medical prescriptions that could raise the reportec Covid rate, but save people's lives.
Last year, literally thousands of Canadians that had Winter residences in Florida made themselves full-time Florida residents. I'll bet they will be regretting that very soon.
If you are thinking of relocating to Florida, maybe you shouldn't.