I'm brutally jet lagged. Got back from Japan a week ago and I'm still waking up at 2-3am and cant get back to sleep. A friend's friend is from Japan and she said that the way to beat it is to stay awake the entire flight home. Too late for that now, so do you guys have any recommendations? I've tried taking melatonin, xanax, and lunesta but still wake up. I'm thinking that maybe I just should just get rip roarin drunk and try to sleep through it. I've also read that cryo therapy is supposed to be a legit option.
It won't populate southwest flights but both charleston and Greenville go direct to Chicago. Have to check their site
Am I missing something? This appears to be just the number of people who flew with the airline in a given year.
I would get up, watch TV, go to the gym, go to work, then go out with some friends for a while at night
Thanks for the tip. Checking it out now but it's not comparing too favorably with Delta out of Charlotte. Thought Southwest was supposed to be cheap
Eh it depends. Charlotte is almost always cheaper for a route that runs all the time like that if you're trying to fly heavier traffic days. They just have way more availability.
Pretty much my exact routine. It's weird - I've never had it this bad, even on past trips to asia. I've been working from home and I'm wondering if that's messing me up
That's actually just the regret your soul has for going back to normal life and not staying in Asia to drive a tuk tuk
They don't pay their pilots so they're on strike They charge for carry ons and nickel and dime When they cancel on you they make you sit in the airport for days Don't do it TC
I'd pull an Andy and open Big Apple Duck's Shin-Hinamoto, but in Shinjuku or Kyoto. PJP3 can eat for free.
I'm still here. Drinking a beer on the terrace while females get ready before walking down to the Irish pub
It's glacier water and averages about 2 degrees Celsius so yes, but they have specially designed suits for you. The suits don't fully cover hands and face though so you're still exposed
cool, I'll be looking forward to your thoughts. After Room 15 pointed out that a summer trip to Argentina would involve a lot of the places we wanted to go being snowbound the wife nixed it, so we're doing Croatia/Bosnia/Montenegro in July instead.
I thought it felt refreshing and we did wear hoods. Mitts on hands and like 7mm neoprene hoods on head. Clarification: we wore a base layer which kind is kind of like sleeping bag material, then a dry suit, which seals off everything except below the wrists and above the neck. The neoprene mitts and gloves allow some water in, but to me was crisp and refreshing.
I just spent 5 nights at Sandals Montego Bay in a oceanfront swimup pool room and I feel so old because we absolutely loved it.
Trips like that get shamed sometimes but I don't think they should. Sometimes people just want to veg out and not do anything for a few days, especially for people who have limited vacation time from work. Not my style, but I can appreciate it.
Yeah. I mean it was NOTHING but relaxing. We literally sat at our pool for like 4 days and drank red stripe and frozen drinks brought to us by our butler. My wife just got out of busy season and I just finished a difficult engagement and it was blissful. I wouldn't recommend it for anything but that, and the crowd that was there was very cig smoking, tat wearing drunkies. But we didn't really interact with them at all. We had a private pool and everything we needed at our room. We are doing 11 days in Lima/Machu Picchu/Cuzco in September and Australia for 2 weeks in December.
When I dove, it was about 4 hours in total and we got 2 trips thru. About 45 minutes in between. Maybe different companies do it different. I went went Dive.is I met them there but they also pick up in Reykjavik.
Some of you guys that have taken extended time to go travel (3+ months) how old were you and how much did you have set aside? Just kind of curious to see what the average is. If you aren't comfortable divulging any of that info I also understand.
28 and I had about $25K earmarked for my travels. I have additional funds set aside in case it takes me a couple months to find a job once I'm done traveling.
29, I saved up and had about 10-15k earmarked beforehand, but then had much more in savings in case I couldn't find a job when I returned. Also depends on where you go. Asia is incredibly cheap, next is S America, and then Europe is more expensive than both.
I will have my Italian passport in hand in exactly a month and just having that is going to make it extremely hard not to say fuck it and go
I'm at the Frankfurt airport for the first time and this has to be the dumbest Airport in the world. Like what is this cluster fuck
So what brought your family to Germany? Well it was 2017 and my dad just couldn't take the fucking Frankfurt airport any more so he just went outside and left and we've been here ever since
One of my favorite airports There's a whole city down below. Getting through the seven circles of security at Terminal Z for flights to the US is no joke though.
Customs and Immigration problem? even my white privilege doesn't usually get me out of that quagmire of a process.
Its just a shit show. Ride bus for 15 minutes from plane to terminal, walk 10 minutes, take train, walk in circles for 10 minutes. Go through security. Walk 10 more minutes, passport control, more walking. Like what the hell who designed this thing
EWR has one guy checking ID with alternating lines between TSAPre and normies. The faces of the 150 people I skipped as I walked past them and immediately went through
Free coffee and newspapers in the Lufthansa terminal last time I was there, thought that was pretty nice
60 second review of my recent trip: Palermo, Sicily: ultra conservative, shorts will immediately identify you as a tourist. Hit or miss on how receptive locals will be to Americans - having Italian heritage helps. Consume as much pasta, seafood, and Nero D'Avola as you can. Highly recommend day trips to Mondello (fishing village / local beach getaway) and Erice (ancient mountaintop village complete with castle). Mafia still a part of everyday life. Athens, Greece: bazaar-style markets everywhere designed to take your money. Influence from all cultures under the sun. Graffiti on everything but the most important landmarks. An absurdity of history. Active restoration of the Parthenon is an amazing project. Dolmadas (stuffed grapeleaves) and Baklava should be consumed at every meal possible. Santorini, Greece: so beautiful it's silly. Great place to relax, enjoy 24-hour mild weather every day, and drink white wine. Grilled octopus skewer with sesame-orange sauce from Laokasti in Oia is manna from heaven.
ANTWONE I remember you were getting an Italian passport, but I've long since forgotten the story behind it. What's the short version?
Italy recognizes citizenship by blood/descent and my grandfather is from Siciliy. I had to collect lineage documents and present them to the consulate here then I was recognized.
Searched in thread and came up a little empty, but any good Barcelona dinner recs or bar/club recs? Going in a couple weeks.