Traveling

[Vrede too]

Maybe I was a little rough on Amanda herself, but I'll stand by my ridicule of a belief that "less damgummint and more freedom" can be consistent with anti-abortion and anti- gay weddings. I guess I just blamed the messenger.

ICYMI, just 2 miles from the Naples Airport destination:

At least 2 dead after small plane crashes onto Florida highway: Authorities
Five people were on board the jet, which crashed onto Interstate 75 near Naples.

[O Really]

I hadn't seen that. The airport there has a huge number of private jets in and out. Lots of money.

[O Really]

Take a tour of O Really and Lady O land.

https://easyreadernews.com/travel-san-d ... -over-for/

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We took a car road trip up to Banff. There's a lot of nothing north of Coeur d'Alene on US 95/2. Northern Virginia battle flags were not unusual. Gas station/convenience stores are not very inviting. Probably most of the (fairly few) people along there are not domestic terrorists, but fershure some of them are....

Coeur d’Alene:

Utah coach says team was shaken after experiencing racial hate at hotel during NCAA Tournament

Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after the arriving at its first NCAA Tournament hotel and was forced to change hotels during the event for safety concerns.

Roberts revealed what happened after Utah lost to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAAs on Monday night. Roberts didn’t go into detail but said there were several incidents that happened last Thursday night after the team arrived in the area for the tournament and were disturbing to the traveling party to the point there were concerns about safety.

Utah was staying about 30 miles away in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and was relocated to a different hotel on Friday....

Utah, South Dakota State and UC Irvine were all staying at hotels in Idaho even with Gonzaga as the host school because of a lack of hotel space in the Spokane area. Several years ago, the city was announced as a host for the first and second rounds of the men’s NCAA Tournament and there was also a large regional youth volleyball tournament in the area during the weekend.

That left limited hotel space and Gonzaga received a waiver from the NCAA to allow teams to be housed in Coeur d’Alene.

“Racism is real and it happens, and it’s awful. So for our players, whether they are white, black, green, whatever, no one knew how to handle it and it was really upsetting,” Roberts said. “For our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA Tournament environment, it’s messed up.”

... Far-right extremists have made a presence in the region. In 2018, at least nine hate groups operated in the region of Spokane and northern Idaho, including Identity Evropa, Proud Boys, ACT for America and America’s Promise Ministries, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Dammit, I was fighting this in North Idaho 40 years ago

[Vrede too]

Take a tour of O Really and Lady O land.

https://easyreadernews.com/travel-san-d ... -over-for/

Maybe all old news to you:
9 short and sweet road trips from Vancouver that aren't just to Whistler

Just for fun:
12 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Canadians

Interesting, eh?

[O Really]

We've visited most of those places - and there are lots of others that could have reasonably made the list including taking the ferry across to Port Angeles to the Olympic peninsula. Maybe that was a little out of their travel time restriction, though.

The list of what not to say could be summed up as "don't believe all the stereotypes of other countries" but IMNVHO the worst is thinking Canada is just like going to another state and Canadians are the same as Americans. Sure, there are a lot of similarities and a good bit of cultural overlap, but Canada is definitely not the US. Which is among its most endearing features to Lady O and me. A lot of tourists think that just because it's next door that Canadian stores will take US dollars. And some do, particularly the touristy shops, but they don't make a proper exchange, just go with face value. So if the touron pays in US dollars, they're paying about 20% extra. A lot of Americans think it's strange that Canada use kilometres for distance and litres to fill the petrol tank, not ever realizing that they (the US) are the ones in the minority with the "unusual" measurement system.

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American Airlines blames girl, 9, for not noticing she was being recorded by flight attendant in bathroom

... The airline is being sued in a Texas court after a now-former flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, used a recording device to film girls between the ages of seven and 14 years old using the American Airlines bathroom for several months in 2023.

After Mr Thompson’s arrest, the family of a nine-year-old victim sued the airline, alleging that the company should have known he was a danger to guests.

On Monday, a lawyer representing the airline wrote in a filing that the little girl should have been aware that a device was recording her while she was using the bathroom.

“Any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device,” the filing said....

[O Really]

So we got back from a few days up at Big Bear Lake. Had a couple of good hikes with views of still-snowed mountaintops, took a boat tour of the lake to see the mountain version of "(vacay) homes of the rich and famous", and took an off-roadish ride up to a deserted mine town (Doble) that was at one time the biggest gold town in California.



Not us, but where we went to the mine

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Doble ... ?entry=ttu#

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Have you escaped?

California Heat Wave Map, Update as Lethal Warning Issued

[O Really]

The "heat wave" will force high temps in Oceanside to around 74 by next weekend. Further inland in San Diego County is a bit warmer, up into the 80's. Of course, the desert is another thing altogether, with over 100 all next week.

During May and June, living at the beach is not exactly what most people think (and what the Chambers of Commerce claim). We have "Gray May" and "June Gloom" where a big cloud bank ("marine layer") lives just offshore and for about 5-7 miles on shore. So instead of "Sunny San Diego", our little strip of Southern California paradise from Dana Point to La Jolla is mostly cloudy and chilly. Clears off some days by mid-afternoon, and it's still better than most everybody else's weather, and it doesn't stop the tourists from trotting off to lie on the beach in the chilly cloudy wind.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but we're not going north this summer. We are taking mostly car road trips to places not easily accessible in the urban assault vehicle.

[Vrede too]

The "heat wave" will force high temps in Oceanside to around 74 by next weekend. Further inland in San Diego County is a bit warmer, up into the 80's. Of course, the desert is another thing altogether, with over 100 all next week.

During May and June, living at the beach is not exactly what most people think (and what the Chambers of Commerce claim). We have "Gray May" and "June Gloom" where a big cloud bank ("marine layer") lives just offshore and for about 5-7 miles on shore. So instead of "Sunny San Diego", our little strip of Southern California paradise from Dana Point to La Jolla is mostly cloudy and chilly. Clears off some days by mid-afternoon, and it's still better than most everybody else's weather, and it doesn't stop the tourists from trotting off to lie on the beach in the chilly cloudy wind.

Sounds miserable

I don't know if I mentioned it, but we're not going north this summer. We are taking mostly car road trips to places not easily accessible in the urban assault vehicle.

New avatar?

[O Really]

Naa, at least not that one. We see this summer as an aberration, and will be back to the True North next summer.

Or maybe I'll try this one. https://votecnp.org/

[O Really]

Today turned very nice. Clouds cleared away by about 1, with about 73 temp. Tourists are happy..

[Vrede too]

Naa, at least not that one. We see this summer as an aberration, and will be back to the True North next summer.

Or maybe I'll try this one. https://votecnp.org/

https://www.californianational.party/wp ... square.png

... Our platform is divided into ten planks. You may view the full 2022 Platform here.

Opps.

... As of January 2022, 413 California voters have registered as members of the California National Party. To achieve qualified party status, the CNP would need 0.33% of total registered voters, or approximately 73,000 registered voters.

413 voters in 7 years = 59/year = qualification in the year 3254

[O Really]

Oh well, I guess it's just another of the thousand fringe groups in the Golden State. I would have thought they'd have more members, though.