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Patrick says

My wife and I just spent two weeks in northern Spain, getting back yesterday just before the internet crash cancelled a lot of flights

Lucky. Just like my wife who flew to Montana on Wednesday got out before the glitch. I hope this will not affect her trip back on Sunday with any rolling outage issues.

EDIT 7/21/24. No such luck, her flight out of Salt Lake City was another of several cancelled and she is one of the many stranded there.

Partied a lot in Barcelona and Callafel in my youth

That's a different world no thanks, I have a friend that cancel his business trip to Barcelona and instead played in the world series poker in Vegas for the week. Still a mad house of stupid any big city.

Funny place for the SOLO USO CLIENTES sign...they think the guy is in the stall ready to take a piss or a shit and is going to stop when he reads the sign?

beershrine says

That's a different world no thanks, I have a friend that cancel his business trip to Barcelona and instead played in the world series poker in Vegas for the week. Still a mad house of stupid any big city.

Yeah, no interest in Spain. If that's your jam not judging. I have no interest in Europe. Vegas can eat a pile of shit too. Been too many times as my dad was an extreme gambler. Now it's just layover flights to get up to Bozeman, MT or Spokane, WA. I think Vegas is about 12-13 non-layover visits. Most pre age 21. I also have no interest in gambling, whores, strippers and drugs.

Patrick says

Moroccans who don't seem to work and look very unfriendly.

If you want to piss off a Falangist, or get the truth, mention the Moroccan legion in the Spanish Civil War.

Lots of atrocities ascribed to them.

@WookieMan

Tell me what's in Bozeman, MT or Spokane, WA. I'm interested.

Patrick says

Water Country (a large park with water slides, wave pools, etc.) was primarily staffed this summer by Spanish exchange students. It was odd hearing so many blue eyed and blond folks speaking to each other in Spanish.

I make Argies and 'Guays howl with laughter with my Castillian accent. Thinco Mortillas, por el Hombre de Madrith, por favor

Literally the courtier's lisp.

I know Spain is a European country, but it was still a bit odd for me to hear so much Spanish without seeing any people who look like the Spanish speakers around where I live.

Ecuador is not the real problem in Spain though. It's the Morroccans.

Patrick says

Tell me what's in Bozeman, MT or Spokane, WA. I'm interested.

Missed this. Intentional derailment of a thread.

Bozeman - If you're active there's tons of hiking. If you're into fishing or want to learn fly fishing, it's the GOAT of fly fishing on the Madison river. If you ski at all, for some reason I picture you as a skier type, but Big Sky is amazing in winter. About 45min south of Bozeman. I have the trail maps above my computer currently. Same with Bridger which is closer, but minimal green runs.

I actually haven't been, but Glacier I think is about 3-4 hours away as well. If you visit MT it's going to be a lot of driving. I know it's illegal, but drinking and driving is the norm out there. No cops basically besides in town. Few traffic accidents outside of winter. Don't drink and drive in the town though.

I could write a novel on the area. You still have Yellowstone an hour to the south. Do the loop through Ennis and Earthquake Lake, Hebgen, Yellowstone and Big Sky. 3 hours, but worth it. You'll spend 7-8 hours hiking, eating lunch, fishing, or whatever. 10-12 hour day. I have photographic memory of the place.

Tetons are 2 hours roughly, but that's one of my favorite national parks. Jackson is a cool town as well. Again, you just have to understand you're going to be in a car for 3 hours a day to do stuff and probably more.

My buddies out there have their go to spots. I usually rent a car and just say fuck it, we're taking this road. We've found some random cool spots that they didn't know about. Lava Lake is a must do hike. It's kind of rough, but my kids handled it at 6 and 8. I usually have 20 drinks on my back. Just north of Big Sky. Don't do it in the winter.... learned my lesson this year. Yak Tracks.

Spokane, WA - Usually not my style at all. Hipster city. I just liked it. Wasn't like Portland, OR. It just had a good vibe for a city. No crime feeling. No homelessness, rare in Washington. I can't really tell you what to do there, but you just find it. I guess that's kind of my point. It's weird. I was solo all 4-5 times. I think it's a good city for that. Just walk around. It's not big by any stretch. They have the scooters as well. Airport is nice and small.

I don't like cities as commented here before, but it's a top 5. Not in order, but Spokane, San Diego, Miami, Montgomery, AL, and San Juan, PR (not a state, but what ever). Talking 200k population roughly. Not the 1M+ cities.

I know the good parts of Chicago, but no. I have to go there this weekend. Fucking gay. Goal for the wife was to do a marathon so I'll yell at her and throw shit at her. Not joking. I'm a dick. She'll laugh though. I'll have to see the forecast, maybe water balloons if it's warm. Or I'll get some of those foam balls and chuck them at her and other runners.

I really don't want to go.... She just left to get her race shit in Chicago. I don't know, I don't like the runner vibe. They're weird. Kind of like bikers. I don't need my knees replaced at 50. I have enjoyed Chicago but I'm done with it. I'm young, but might be my last time in downtown Chicago. My anxiety gets to me. Legit PTSD having worked there 15 years. This will be her first marathon and my last as a spectator.

Patrick says

Ecuador is not the real problem in Spain though. It's the Moroccans.

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1832351780899893288

Very unfair to rats to compare them with that Moroccan.

What are the fucking men doing??? Bunch of fucking pussies. That guy was 5'9" at best. I'm not a fighter but if I saw that shit going down my anger would come out and his head would be smashed in 10 seconds. I mean split open and he's dying.

Hell he fell down clotheslining a defenseless woman. I could kill that shit head in seconds. Damn you Patrick, you got my anger going. I wanted to be there and witness it. Those two guys jogging after him, fucking sprint and break his face. I guess Spaniards are pussies.

I've broken a guys leg that was on PCP. He didn't even notice. I'm a peace keeper, but if I need to be an enforcer, damage is coming your way. Maybe not after 50, but for now if I saw something like that, your best case is leaving on a stretcher and worst in a bag. You don't hit women even the bitchiest of them. Hell you shouldn't need or want to hit people in general.

I met one guy in Spain who definitely would have killed that Moroccan, and rightly so.

He's works at the Basque Museum in San Sebastian. He was a lot of fun to talk to. Openly said Spain should resume shooting anyone who jumps over the border they have with Morocco. Apparently there's a bit of Spanish territory in North Africa.

He said they used to literally shoot anyone who jumped over that border, but the gays and feminists put an end to defending Spain.

Patrick says

He's works at the Basque Museum in San Sebastian. He was a lot of fun to talk to. Openly said Spain should resume shooting anyone who jumps over the border they have with Morocco. Apparently there's a bit of Spanish territory in North Africa.

My favorite band and I know the guys, are playing in Morocco. Contemplated it, but stuff like this bothers me. I'm sure it's mostly safe, but it's the deadbeats I worry about. I don't have points on non-western hemisphere travel. So I'd be looking at $3-5k for a solo trip. Wife ain't gonna dig that. Wanted to see them in Iceland, but Covid fucked that up.

I've heard a lot of bad stories about Morocco. Like that not only women, but men get raped there.

My sophomore year in Austria, some guys from my program went to Morocco during winter break and made the mistake of buying weed. The dealer then called the police on them. The police demanded a large bribe not to imprison them, and then literally gave the weed back to the dealer. They work together.

Patrick says

I've heard a lot of bad stories about Morocco. Like that not only women, but men get raped there.

Given the costs I was never super serious about going. I can hold my own in foreign countries though given my size. I've never been fucked with. I can go 60 seconds and hold my ground with anyone. The costs were just too much to justify a solo trip. My sister is currently in Italy on a solo trip at Pompeii currently. So I sent this: https://youtu.be/iMgFPB6IokI?si=9_aKebX4G1OrX5T7