|
|
Post by spoon on May 15, 2018 21:16:40 GMT -5
Where are going in the U.S.A.? Four days in New York City, 7 day's exploring Massachusetts and Vermont, and then 3 days in Boston. Hey! I live about an hour from NYC in New Jersey. If you're just in the City on weekdays, I probably can't hello, although I'm considering going to an event in Manhattan where the series finale of The Americans is going to be broadcast in a movie theater. Do you have what you're doing planned out? I don't visit the City a lot, so I don't have super-expert knowledge. I can say that American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art are both great. They are both just outside of Central Park, but on either side (west and east). There also a sort of outdoor flea market near the Theater District. One of the booths there is called Metal Park, and they sell Aliens and Predators and Star Wars vehicle made of motorcycle parts: www.metalpark.org/If you like baseball, you should go to a Major League game. If you know nothing about baseball, maybe try to see a game anyway. It's as American as apple pie. I've never been to Fenway Park in Boston, but I might go when the Mets play the Red Sox in September. It's a like an ancient cathedral of baseball. It opened the same year the Titanic sank! ETA: Also your trip will overlap with at least some of the NBA Finals, and the Boston Celtics might make it this year. |
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 10,201 
|
Post by Confessor on May 16, 2018 5:17:44 GMT -5
Four days in New York City, 7 day's exploring Massachusetts and Vermont, and then 3 days in Boston. Hey! I live about an hour from NYC in New Jersey. If you're just in the City on weekdays, I probably can't hello, although I'm considering going to an event in Manhattan where the series finale of The Americans is going to be broadcast in a movie theater. Do you have what you're doing planned out? I don't visit the City a lot, so I don't have super-expert knowledge. I can say that American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art are both great. They are both just outside of Central Park, but on either side (west and east). There also a sort of outdoor flea market near the Theater District. One of the booths there is called Metal Park, and they sell Aliens and Predators and Star Wars vehicle made of motorcycle parts: www.metalpark.org/I'm in Manhattan from the 28th to 31st May (Monday to Thursday). I'm actually staying just across the Hudson in Hoboken, NJ. My wife and I have a few things booked -- we're doing a crawl of jazz clubs in Harlem one evening and taking in a Broadway show another -- but we also have a lot of time free to do whatever we feel like doing on any given day. We have some very definite ideas of what we want to see or explore in NYC though (Greenwich Village, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dakota building, Empire State etc). But I also want to just absorb being in America. I want to meet and observe Americans in their own environment and try to get a feel for what it's like to live there. If you like baseball, you should go to a Major League game. If you know nothing about baseball, maybe try to see a game anyway. It's as American as apple pie. I've never been to Fenway Park in Boston, but I might go when the Mets play the Red Sox in September. It's a like an ancient cathedral of baseball. It opened the same year the Titanic sank! Yep, we've got tickets to see the Red Sox at Fenway Park the day before we come home. I do enjoy baseball (we used to play a simplified version called Rounders at school). We're both really looking forward to that because, as you say, it's such a quintessentially American pastime. We're going on a Sunday, which is family day, so that'll be cool to be sitting in the stands among a lot of American families. |
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on May 16, 2018 9:55:05 GMT -5
What Confessor doesn't know is he's going to be spirited away to Idaho by a black ops team and forced to shoot guns. |
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 10,201
|
Post by Confessor on May 16, 2018 11:49:36 GMT -5
What Confessor doesn't know is he's going to be spirited away to Idaho by a black ops team and forced to shoot guns. Ha! Shootin' guns and eatin' potatoes is all there is to do in Idaho, amiright?!  Anyway, I told you, as long as we aren't shooting at anything living, I'm cool with that. It'd be fun, I'm sure. I'll leave it to you to sort the guns out, slam. I want something like this...  As I understand it, you can buy a gun like that in pretty much any shop in America, as long as you're over the age of 5.  |
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on May 16, 2018 12:04:22 GMT -5
What Confessor doesn't know is he's going to be spirited away to Idaho by a black ops team and forced to shoot guns. Ha! Shootin' guns and eatin' potatoes is all there is to do in Idaho, amiright?! Anyway, I told you, as long as we aren't shooting at anything living, I'm cool with that. It'd be fun, I'm sure. I'll leave it to you to sort the guns out, slam. I want something like this... As I understand it, you can buy a gun like that in pretty much any shop in America, as long as you're over the age of 5. It would actually look more like this.  That's number three son in his Western Heritage outfit. My Dad tooled that holster in probably about 1970. Connor got that pistol for Christmas a couple years back.  Cowboy action shooting.  Target shooting at dye filled ballons. The shirt on the kid on the left was the result from the year before. |
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 10,201
|
Post by Confessor on May 16, 2018 16:14:28 GMT -5
Ha! Shootin' guns and eatin' potatoes is all there is to do in Idaho, amiright?! Anyway, I told you, as long as we aren't shooting at anything living, I'm cool with that. It'd be fun, I'm sure. I'll leave it to you to sort the guns out, slam. I want something like this... As I understand it, you can buy a gun like that in pretty much any shop in America, as long as you're over the age of 5. It would actually look more like this. That's number three son in his Western Heritage outfit. My Dad tooled that holster in probably about 1970. Connor got that pistol for Christmas a couple years back. Cowboy action shooting. Target shooting at dye filled ballons. The shirt on the kid on the left was the result from the year before. Very snazzy outfit on your son. That kind of shooting looks like it'd be a lot of fun. I'll have to take you up on the invite to go shooting one of these days. |
|
|
|
Post by spoon on May 16, 2018 20:36:14 GMT -5
Hey! I live about an hour from NYC in New Jersey. If you're just in the City on weekdays, I probably can't hello, although I'm considering going to an event in Manhattan where the series finale of The Americans is going to be broadcast in a movie theater. Do you have what you're doing planned out? I don't visit the City a lot, so I don't have super-expert knowledge. I can say that American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art are both great. They are both just outside of Central Park, but on either side (west and east). There also a sort of outdoor flea market near the Theater District. One of the booths there is called Metal Park, and they sell Aliens and Predators and Star Wars vehicle made of motorcycle parts: www.metalpark.org/I'm in Manhattan from the 28th to 31st May (Monday to Thursday). I'm actually staying just across the Hudson in Hoboken, NJ. My wife and I have a few things booked -- we're doing a crawl of jazz clubs in Harlem one evening and taking in a Broadway show another -- but we also have a lot of time free to do whatever we feel like doing on any given day. We have some very definite ideas of what we want to see or explore in NYC though (Greenwich Village, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dakota building, Empire State etc). But I also want to just absorb being in America. I want to meet and observe Americans in their own environment and try to get a feel for what it's like to live there. If you like baseball, you should go to a Major League game. If you know nothing about baseball, maybe try to see a game anyway. It's as American as apple pie. I've never been to Fenway Park in Boston, but I might go when the Mets play the Red Sox in September. It's a like an ancient cathedral of baseball. It opened the same year the Titanic sank! Yep, we've got tickets to see the Red Sox at Fenway Park the day before we come home. I do enjoy baseball (we used to play a simplified version called Rounders at school). We're both really looking forward to that because, as you say, it's such a quintessentially American pastime. We're going on a Sunday, which is family day, so that'll be cool to be sitting in the stands among a lot of American families. Jersey! I haven't really spent much time in Hoboken, but I spent the first few years of my life in Bayonne. My family are Hudson County people. Hoboken has a reputation as a place where a lot of yuppies who work in Manhattan live. There's a lot of bars in a very small area. Hoboken and Manhattan would definitely be good places to use mass transit or taxis. Hudson County (where Hoboken is located) is one of the most densely populated counties in the whole country. There are a lot of one way street and parking can be a huge pain. I know the site of the Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr duel is in the next town over (Weehawken) along the river. If you're flying into Newark (rather than JFK), it should be pretty quick to get to Hoboken. In New England, they're all "Clam chowdahh!" www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/five-subjects-behind/n10180 |
|
|
|
Post by The Captain on May 19, 2018 5:07:54 GMT -5
Are you going to be visiting Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh on your tour? not this trip, but we went to Kennywood on our trip thru Penn. a few years ago (flew into Pittsburgh, and did Kennywood, HersheyPark, Knoebel's, and Dorney, ending w/ 3 days in Philly to do all the Culture stuff).
this trip starts in Atlanta, and ends in Sandusky. . so parks will be: Six Flags Over Georgia, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Kings Dominion, Carrowinds, Sesame Place, HersheyPark, Knoebel's, (possibly) Six Flags America, and Cedar Point. . . with a couple of additional quick stops likely added along the way.
gonna be a great trip!
That looks like an awesomely fun trip! I've been to a few of those places, although none recently, and if you're an amusement park enthusiast, you're going to have a great time! One minor quibble, however. You mentioned having gone to Filthadelphia to do the "Culture stuff". That's simply impossible, because as a Pittsburgher, I know there is absolutely zero culture in that dump masquerading as a city across the state 😎 |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 19:55:16 GMT -5
not this trip, but we went to Kennywood on our trip thru Penn. a few years ago (flew into Pittsburgh, and did Kennywood, HersheyPark, Knoebel's, and Dorney, ending w/ 3 days in Philly to do all the Culture stuff).
this trip starts in Atlanta, and ends in Sandusky. . so parks will be: Six Flags Over Georgia, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Kings Dominion, Carrowinds, Sesame Place, HersheyPark, Knoebel's, (possibly) Six Flags America, and Cedar Point. . . with a couple of additional quick stops likely added along the way.
gonna be a great trip!
That looks like an awesomely fun trip! I've been to a few of those places, although none recently, and if you're an amusement park enthusiast, you're going to have a great time! One minor quibble, however. You mentioned having gone to Filthadelphia to do the "Culture stuff". That's simply impossible, because as a Pittsburgher, I know there is absolutely zero culture in that dump masquerading as a city across the state 😎
Keep in mind, we like the tourist trap stuff as well as "true" culture. .so yeah, we did Betsy Ross House, but also the the stuff like Liberty Bell & Independence Hall (and yes, I know you're kidding. .LOL).
On this trip, with a Theme Park site (small, handpicked group, we're only about 33 people on the bus), so we're likely going to be treated really great with lots of ERT, and special behind the scenes tours. . but if not, I'd be fine with that too since at the end of the day we're at theme parks.
this trip includes admission to parks, fast lane/skip the line passes at every park, transportation for the 2 weeks, hotel at each stop, and two meals a day. Gonna be a great time!
I've been to 5 of the parks in the past 3 years: Hersheypark, Knoebel's, KD, BGW, & Cedar Point. . .but all of them have new Roller Coasters and rides since I've been. . so really looking forwards to it!
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on May 21, 2018 4:56:14 GMT -5
That looks like an awesomely fun trip! I've been to a few of those places, although none recently, and if you're an amusement park enthusiast, you're going to have a great time! One minor quibble, however. You mentioned having gone to Filthadelphia to do the "Culture stuff". That's simply impossible, because as a Pittsburgher, I know there is absolutely zero culture in that dump masquerading as a city across the state 😎
Keep in mind, we like the tourist trap stuff as well as "true" culture. .so yeah, we did Betsy Ross House, but also the the stuff like Liberty Bell & Independence Hall (and yes, I know you're kidding. .LOL).
On this trip, with a Theme Park site (small, handpicked group, we're only about 33 people on the bus), so we're likely going to be treated really great with lots of ERT, and special behind the scenes tours. . but if not, I'd be fine with that too since at the end of the day we're at theme parks.
this trip includes admission to parks, fast lane/skip the line passes at every park, transportation for the 2 weeks, hotel at each stop, and two meals a day. Gonna be a great time!
I've been to 5 of the parks in the past 3 years: Hersheypark, Knoebel's, KD, BGW, & Cedar Point. . .but all of them have new Roller Coasters and rides since I've been. . so really looking forwards to it!
You put together a trip you love. It sounds like an awesome trip. I think the last time I did something that I truly loved was when I attended a comic con in Baltimore about 4 years ago. My wife loves to travel the world. Me? Not so much. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 12:14:58 GMT -5
One of my most memorable vacations is my first trip to Las Vegas in 2002. I went with a bunch of fraternity brothers (frat bros in Vegas does sound incredibly d-bag, but it was fun!) and we then started going every year. Now, with the bunch married, divorced, fathers, etc. those trips eventually ended, but now I go with my Dad every summer. He had not been since 1968 and I enjoy watching him do his thing and have fun.
I go to New Orleans every few years and it's fun as well. The food is great. Always enjoy going to Pat O'Briens as well as some of the more hole in the wall places. The ghost tours are fun.
I enjoy Chicago in the summer, especially for a Cubs game. I have been more often in the winter and that was miserable as far as weather. I have never been so cold and windblown.
From childhood, a favorite trip was to the now defunct Opryland USA in Nashville. My dad's company sent us every summer and it was always fun. Opryland was an amusement park that was open from 1972-1997.
Before my mother passed, she and I had planned a trip to Germany (she was German) but we never made it there. My dad is Italian and he wants to visit there and go to Germany as well. If we make that trip, I imagine that will be the trip of a lifetime.
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 10,201
|
Post by Confessor on May 21, 2018 17:17:59 GMT -5
My dad is Italian and he wants to visit there and go to Germany as well. If we make that trip, I imagine that will be the trip of a lifetime. I visited Italy for the first time last summer -- I was in Florence and toured the Tuscany hills. It was great and the Italians are lovely people. You should definitely try to get yourself and your father out there. You'll love it. |
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on May 21, 2018 18:33:08 GMT -5
Leaving on Thursday for four days in and around Butte, Montana. Which maybe isn't the most exciting trip in the world. But there are a ton of ghost towns in the area and we are going to see two battle sites from the Nez Perce War. For a family of history buffs that's a good time. Very excited to finally make it to the site of The Battle of the Big Hole.
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 10,201
|
Post by Confessor on May 21, 2018 22:50:47 GMT -5
^^ Evel Knievel was born and raised in Butte. That's what I know it for. Sounds like a good history trip you've got planned there, Slam.
|
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on May 21, 2018 23:12:51 GMT -5
^^ Evel Knievel was born and raised in Butte. That's what I know it for. Sounds like a good history trip you've got planned there, Slam. He was. Will probably run through the Butte cemetery. He's there. And usually you can find some cool stuff in cemeteries. |
|
