on vacation

[Destroyer]

made it home in one piece today. Wake up at 5 am PT, trip to the car rental drop off, shuttle bus to the airport, check in thru TSA, grab coffee and breakfast , The plane boarded at 9. took off at 9:30. 5 hours on the plane, landed in Charlotte, waited for the luggage, and the shuttle bus, drove home, made it in the door at 9:30 EST. Been a long day and a lot of miles.

There's no place like home. Welcome back Spare.

 

[spareparts]

I'm just starting to compile all the memories in my head from last week, quite a culture shock. One thing that really sticks out in my mind is the number of professional homeless people. Every where we turned there was some one with a sign asking for money, every one had an angle. Funny thing is a lot of them had on ***elry, make up, well appointed hair, even one guy had on fresh workout suit and a pair of Air Jordan's on. There was a blinged out Charger in that parking lot(only car), we came back thru a few minutes later and the guy and the car were gone. People have no shame

 

[bradford]

I'm just starting to compile all the memories in my head from last week, quite a culture shock. One thing that really sticks out in my mind is the number of professional homeless people. Every where we turned there was some one with a sign asking for money, every one had an angle. Funny thing is a lot of them had on ***elry, make up, well appointed hair, even one guy had on fresh workout suit and a pair of Air Jordan's on. There was a blinged out Charger in that parking lot(only car), we came back thru a few minutes later and the guy and the car were gone. People have no shame

I'm not really that old yet, but I noticed in the last few years my tolerance for outright BS has dropped tremendously.

For everyone's safety I will not be visiting Commiefornia.

p.s. I noticed a lot of the same down in Key West. I love the Keys, but don't care if I ever go all the way to the end of US 1 ever again.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

Key West is OK, you just have to be careful to pick the time you go. As for kommiefornia, I know I couldn't make it out there. I want to visit to see the west coast, but I don't want to go because it's the left coast.

 

[spareparts]

Bradford, I feel the same way about Key West. Over all, the areas we were in were pretty good. Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, San Clemente, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point were all very nice and most of the people were nice. But the bums were every where we went, they got worse as the areas we were in got worse, but they were everywhere. There is some beautiful country out there, and you could tell the real Californians, they were nice and pleasant, they all were very respondent to our "southern politeness". I had several people compliment my two girls on their manners. The thing about out there, is there are a lot of people that aren't from out there(lots of Europeans and South Americans), you could tell the Californians feel there are out numbered. If any of you ever get the chance, I highly recommend driving the PCH, we only did it from San Diego to Santa Barbara, I'd love to drive the whole way, or even take the train(follows the same route)

 

[reelapeelin]

Bradford, I feel the same way about Key West. Over all, the areas we were in were pretty good. Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, San Clemente, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point were all very nice and most of the people were nice. But the bums were every where we went, they got worse as the areas we were in got worse, but they were everywhere. There is some beautiful country out there, and you could tell the real Californians, they were nice and pleasant, they all were very respondent to our "southern politeness". I had several people compliment my two girls on their manners. The thing about out there, is there are a lot of people that aren't from out there(lots of Europeans and South Americans), you could tell the Californians feel there are out numbered. If any of you ever get the chance, I highly recommend driving the PCH, we only did it from San Diego to Santa Barbara, I'd love to drive the whole way, or even take the train(follows the same route)

I was out in LA back in Feb for a private screening of the movie I was in...saw lots of homeless people on Sunset Blvd and over in Santa Monica and none ever asked us for any money...I could go back out there and spend some time, as long as there's a return trip plane ticket in my pocket...