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Orale

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  1. I have a couple weeks to kill and booked an 11 day trip arriving in Nashville May 20th and returning from Atlanta the 31st. Other than visits to Nashville and a SC beach town years ago, I haven't spent any time in this part of the country, so I'd appreciate any recommendations. I created a basic itinerary below, but my route is very flexible. I enjoy scenic drives, historic sites, and interesting places like the big universities, Augusta golf course, cool museums, etc... I'm for sure driving through the mountains a couple days, the triangle towns, Charleston, and Savannah. I'm big into hiking, but I'm going to save anything more than a couple day hikes for a future visit. I've done Nashville, so it's just a convenient starting point for an evening flight and morning drive to Knoxville which is supposed to be scenic. I put the route from Raleigh to Charleston along the coast as a placeholder, but I don't mind skipping the coast for an inland route if it has scenic or other appeal. I know 11 days isn't much time to see all of these places. But I'm fine with brief stops so that I can cover as much territory as possible and see what's worth a longer future visit. Gracias.
  2. Orale replied to C-Man's topic in Food and Travel
    I lived there six months last year. Food on the whole is just ok. I can't think of a can't miss place. They have a surprisingly good brewery scene. The drafts are limited to 5% as next2naus noted, but the cans are usually high octane and can be consumed inside the breweries. Roha Brewing Project near downtown is my favorite for the quality of the beer, though it's smaller and shabbier than some other breweries. For breakfast, my favorite spot was Park Cafe near downtown on the southern end of Liberty Park (a bad ass park btw).
  3. I went to New Delhi last month. It was interesting to see, but definitely a dump. Just pure chaos. I'm bewildered when people talk about its potential to be a super power. Though I guess China managed to pull that off over the last few decades.
  4. I'd like to know that too. I'll be talking to a broker later this week and will let you know what I learn.
  5. As a gay, I'm dubious of the notion that some piece of shit trying too hard to prove his alpha manliness is likely/probably closeted. He and guys like him may just be very misogynist straight assholes with no game. If he is gay, well y'all can keep him.
  6. A few years back I did almost that exact itinerary. IMO, no that's not too much Tokyo. It's an amazing city with plenty to explore.
  7. The thought of him rolling out of that little crashed car is just bizarre.
  8. Yep. How have I never seen these?
  9. One of those disgusting meatless berders.
  10. Despite all the drama and excitement last night, in the light of day it appears to have mostly been a nothing berder. Hopefully Israel and Biden temper the rhetoric.
  11. School loyalty aside, it's just objectively truly sickening and enraging.
  12. Best of luck man. Many of us have been there. Just a random thought, maybe consider starting a small business that doesn't require much up front investment. It's easier said than done of course, but certainly within the capability of a smart hard working person.
  13. I'm a stomach sleeper that probably does a few dozen 360s on 5 or 6 hours of sleep each night . When I have access to it, I take about 20 mg of sativa edibles and hour or two before bed and get 8 to 9 hours of deep sleep a night without all the movement.
  14. I travel abroad a lot and Nord works well for me, mostly. I still get blocked sometimes by Prime and other streaming services. I don't know if that's true of other VPNs as well.
  15. Fucking hell. I'm sorry to hear that. We'd probably just end up selling if it came to that. I can't imagine our tenants accepting that pass through expense, and I wouldn't blame them.
  16. .1 BAC is not very much, even after an hour or two. Hell, that would nearly be legal in Texas 25 or so years ago.
  17. We have a few commercial buildings in San Antonio with a mix of office/retail/medical tenants. Premiums have quadrupled in the last few years, apparently due to climate events around the nation. We set our deductibles at 5% of replacement cost value and agreed to forego roof coverage this year just to afford the 400% premium increases. This effectively renders the coverage useless short of a catastrophic event like a fire or earthquake as the deductible is near a half million on one building and several hundred thousand on the others. The buildings are old school 1940s concrete block buildings (slab, walls, and roof) that are fully sprinklered, fire walled, outside of flood zones, etc..., so the risk of catastrophic events is infinitesimally small as far as I can surmise. The largest concern is liability from an injury, which is a fairly small portion of the premium cost. Our tenants are required to carry liability coverage on top of our building wide liability coverage, so even that exposure is minimal. We're a small mom and pop self-managing commercial property operation, so dealing with these changes in the property insurance industry has created real challenges for us and our tenants who pay for these increases as a triple net expense. Not to mention for customers who face higher service/product costs as a result. We only carry the property coverage portion at all because our lenders understandably require it. Anyhow, I'm curious if anyone else in the commercial property world is dealing with this and how.
  18. You can share it. My brother and I who run our family business use it so we can share access to various online banking and business accounts. As someone downthread mentioned, you can also just share a login which might be simpler if you're starting from scratch. My brother and I had separate accounts that we had to merge which I recall wasn't the most intuitive process. So just sharing a login might be the easiest approach. That assumes of course you don't mind her having full access to any account you add to Bitwarden and vice versa.
  19. I use the paid $10 a year Bitwarden and it works across computer, phone, and other devices. Pretty intuitive and easy to use imo. I don't recall all the benefits of the paid version but I think it monitors your info for fraud and what not.
  20. My dad used to take me out of school for the occasional business trip out of town. I would wander whatever city alone while he was in a meeting and see the sights. In hindsight it was invaluable for developing self-reliance and independence that can't really be taught in school.
  21. This may be addressed further down thread, ignore if so. But are these kids that are missing 10 weeks or whatever still turning in assignments and taking/passing tests?
  22. I did a four day Safari in January to https://www.parsonshilltop.com/ in South Africa, about 10 to 15 miles from the place conVinced stayed. I found and booked it on booking.com. I thought it was an amazing experience. This particular camp only has four tents and one Landcruiser safari vehicle and it's in a reserve with fewer nearby camps, so none of the 20 vehicles parked around a lion nonsense. We saw every animal (most many times) minus the leopard or cheetah (I forget which one is in KNP). It was about $400 a night for two people including safari rides, meals, and drinks from their self-serve bar. The camp offered a 5 a.m. morning ride and 5 p.m. evening ride around the reserve with each lasting about 3 hours depending on if we were getting lucky. My buddy and I did both morning/evening rides while other guests did just one. We flew into Capetown and stayed a week and then flew two hours to Krueger National Park. Capetown is an amazing beautiful city. If you decide on a Safari in South Africa, I'd highly recommend spending time in Capetown. We stayed in the Gardens neighborhood which turned out to be my favorite neighborhood in the city. I will say that self-booking the flights to CT and KNP as well as the Safari was easy and straightforward. You can use an agent or service for the convenience of course. But for South Africa at least, I don't think it's necessary or even necessarily easier. The Safari camps send a vehicle to the airport to gather you, so once you book your flights and a Safari camp, everything else is typically taken care of by the Safari camp. We did three days in Johannesburg after KNP for the cultural sites (Cradle of Humankind, Soweto township tour, Mandela museum). It was an interesting city to visit for a couple days, but unless one just has a lot of time to kill, I'd suggest skipping it.
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