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We do like to travel but we do it cheap, cruises are cheap, been on 7 and going again in Oct. We like it because it's easy, and cheap, we couldn't stay in a hotel in our little town for 7 days including food (not fast food) for the cost of a cruise for 7 days. The only thing you have to watch is not getting to crazy while in other countries, which is pretty easy considering they are expecting you to party, and don't fall off the boat. :o   

 

Like a couple weeks ago in Tenn and NC for 11 days we rented a house for 11 days for $850, just went sightseeing every day and cooked at the house each night, that's as cheap as you can get. Anytime we go we try to rent a house, it's always cheaper than hotels, especially for a week or more. 

 

Going to Hawaii is in a whole other range of prices, maby one day ?

you’re probably right; but, you know that i don’t eat at home even when i’m at home. Renting that house does save you some money--me…i would have showed up on Chuck’s doorstep at dinnertime … but, he’d probably be out on a date!

i think cruises are the ultimate vacation--big fan of the cruise.  took one from los angeles to hawaii and back to los angeles. 15 days--loved it.  10 days at sea (which is why i loved it) five days in hawaii (Oahu, Big Island, Maui, and Kauai). Plus they rolled out the red carpet for me on that trip as my former boss is a senior vice president of the cruise line--he sent the captain of the ship an email saying i was going to be onboard and how much i’d helped him in the past. People were looking at me getting special treatment and they must have been wondering who i was. Got to be friends with the piano player in one of the bars … he’d throw in a Queen tune every now & then for me. 

I want to take a transatlantic … one that stops in the Azores. Relatives there that i’ve never met. 

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Morning gang, up early for a flight back home. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it down to see Tarheel. Would you believe it, he has his own cab service here.

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Anyways had a great time with my uncle here in Jacksonville. Well coffee is done along with my breakfast so I've got to run.

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Morning gang

Had to check my calender, yep, it's Sunday.

Cleaning the cave/guns today, not much more planned.

Planning yet another Reno run, this time it's a real estate run, kind of hone in on where/location outside of Reno.

Reno Nevada has every service Calif has, great VA if needed, but more important the wife likes it.

Three things Nevada has going for it, great gun laws, tax's, people friendly. Oregon/Arz are the same.

Oregon is a tad too wet, Arz a tad too hot.

Coffee / Duggans is ready......

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We do like to travel but we do it cheap, cruises are cheap, been on 7 and going again in Oct. We like it because it's easy, and cheap, we couldn't stay in a hotel in our little town for 7 days including food (not fast food) for the cost of a cruise for 7 days. The only thing you have to watch is not getting to crazy while in other countries, which is pretty easy considering they are expecting you to party, and don't fall off the boat.      

 

Used to have a neighbor lady that would sign up as some part of the crew on some of the littler freighters.   

She seemed to come out Happy with the arrangements.  Made some friends with the crew, who would advise her as to were to buy things.  She was going to buy something at one port they stopped at and the crew told her she could get the same item only better and cheaper when they got to the island where they were made.

 

Another time she signed up for crew in a sailboat.  All the fun and maybe some $$$,  I know she enjoyed that trip as well.

 

If you think you might be open to such adventure I'd be willing to try to get you in touch with her.  I knowed she sailed many times to different global areas and I don't recall any complaints.

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If you think you might be open to such adventure I'd be willing to try to get you in touch with her. I knowed she sailed many times to different global areas and I don't recall any complaints

 

That would be a fun way for a single person to travel around the world, anyway I don't think my wife would like that kind of cruise.

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i think cruises are the ultimate vacation--big fan of the cruise. took one from los angeles to hawaii and back to los angeles. 15 days--loved it. 10 days at sea (which is why i loved it) five days in hawaii (Oahu, Big Island, Maui, and Kauai). Plus they rolled out the red carpet for me on that trip as my former boss is a senior vice president of the cruise line--he sent the captain of the ship an email saying i was going to be onboard and how much i’d helped him in the past. People were looking at me getting special treatment and they must have been wondering who i was. Got to be friends with the piano player in one of the bars … he’d throw in a Queen tune every now & then for me. I want to take a transatlantic … one that stops in the Azores. Relatives there that i’ve never met.

 

That kind of surprises me, I wouldn't have thought you would have liked travel like that. It is nice to not have to do anything and your room is always not far, when they wondered who you were you should have told them, "you really don't know" !

 

You need to plan that trip.

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Coffee/Duggans be tasting mighty fine, wish i could crank on some tunes  :mellow2:

You can but at 7:51 not the normal Minermark crank, keep it under structure rattling volumes.

 

Some "Lite FM Rock" is in order, yesterday it was inagoddavida drum solo @90Spl, also@9am, perhaps that is what pizzed off the neighbor?

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That could do it, but that's mild compared to some of your choices, some of the ones you posted would have the neighbors waking up thinking an apocalypse had started. :o  

 

A pic similar to your yard by 2016, your morning coffee and listening setup. :o  

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That could do it, but that's mild compared to some of your choices, some of the ones you posted would have the neighbors waking up thinking an apocalypse had started. :o  

 

A pic similar to your yard by 2016, your morning coffee and listening setup. :o  

Ah, the burningman set up, i chatted with an owner of these, nice guys, dont know if they will ever do it again though, people liked the tunes and did not give a Rats Pattoot about what the sound was coming from.

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Stupid squirrel came back and is digging in my window well again.  Thought it was trapped yesterday and took the cover off, leveled off the dirt and put it back on.  Digging so much it had dirt 1/4 way up the window, again!  The war is on.  I wonder if the local Walmart has clay.  I need some M80's too, and not the amp.  Wife came in with a yell for help.  One of the tomato plants fell over.  All this rain is yielding a nice crop.

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minermark, on 24 Aug 2014 - 12:58 PM, said:minermark, on 24 Aug 2014 - 12:58 PM, said:

 

dtel, on 24 Aug 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:dtel, on 24 Aug 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

That could do it, but that's mild compared to some of your choices, some of the ones you posted would have the neighbors waking up thinking an apocalypse had started. :o  

 

A pic similar to your yard by 2016, your morning coffee and listening setup. :o  

Ah, the burningman set up, i chatted with an owner of these, nice guys, dont know if they will ever do it again though, people liked the tunes and did not give a Rats Pattoot about what the sound was coming from.

 

That's sad, I would have been parked in that area, a little back but in that area.

 

I know what two single bins sound like outside in the yard with just a few watts, I would love to hear a setup like that, or just the normal MWM setup outside fired up, it would be amazing.

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That kind of surprises me, I wouldn't have thought you would have liked travel like that. It is nice to not have to do anything and your room is always not far, when they wondered who you were you should have told them, "you really don't know" !   You need to plan that trip.

shouldn’t surprise you … food, waves, casino -- entertainment trifecta!  Now, i don’t particularly like being the center of attention--that part i can do without. 

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Stupid squirrel came back and is digging in my window well again.  Thought it was trapped yesterday and took the cover off, leveled off the dirt and put it back on.  Digging so much it had dirt 1/4 way up the window, again!  The war is on.  I wonder if the local Walmart has clay.  I need some M80's too, and not the amp.  Wife came in with a yell for help.  One of the tomato plants fell over.  All this rain is yielding a nice crop.

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Let the squirrel have it and move what's important somewhere else.

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Stupid squirrel came back and is digging in my window well again.

 

Probably just trying to get to your nuts.

The don't go underground so if you get your old nuts out the window well he will probably leave it alone.

 

What ?

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Now, i don’t particularly like being the center of attention--that part i can do without.

 

I don't blame you there, but you are apparently according to the evidence piling up :o  a very important person just being modest., or a regular guy . :ph34r: Either way you should have told people when they looked at you funny, you haven't heard my music or see my videos or my clothing line, where have you been in a cave, and just walk off with an attitude !  That would keep them guessing. :D Like Bonnie Raitt song, "give them something to talk about", they will be telling there friends when they get back home and you will be 10 different people by then. I have seen a pic of you before, you could pull that off easily.

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