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  • Wow Wuap. Sounds awesome.
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    • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
      I got tickets from DC to Copenhagen from june 30 - August 7 for $2773 on Virgin Atlantic for all five of us.
      OMG that's such a steal. What an amazing treat for your family.
      "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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      • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
        Sounds like an incredible trip.

        Will you do Airbnb or hotels or something else? Any planned car rentals or will it all be trains and public transport?
        Airbnb in Denmark at first and then a Clarion Inn at the end, and vrbo in Croatia and Finland, Marriott in London (ouch....$2k), Hilton in Estonia, and not sure yet about the rest. SOme rental cars, some cities are walkable (London), no way in hell I'm driving in Turkey or Estonia--they have Lyft both places, but we plan to mostly stay near the hotels, though our plans aren't finalized yet.
        "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
        The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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        • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
          Airbnb in Denmark at first and then a Clarion Inn at the end, and vrbo in Croatia and Finland, Marriott in London (ouch....$2k), Hilton in Estonia, and not sure yet about the rest. SOme rental cars, some cities are walkable (London), no way in hell I'm driving in Turkey or Estonia--they have Lyft both places, but we plan to mostly stay near the hotels, though our plans aren't finalized yet.
          That is a ton of work to set up a trip like that. I admire your annual summer treks. Your kids are lucky.

          Does you wife help with the planning?
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          • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

            Does you wife help with the planning?
            She doesn't do a damned thing! But, I don't care and I love her to death.
            "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
            The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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            • Too much Denmark and not enough Sweden!

              That looks amazing wuap. Enjoy!

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              • Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
                Too much Denmark and not enough Sweden!

                That looks amazing wuap. Enjoy!
                We'll go over to Malmo. I need some Marabou, if nothing else. Plus, I'm fairly certain they have birds in Sweden.
                "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                • guys. guys! i just re-read the OP and i'm quite certain BM was talking about taking a vacation from Mormonism. like leaving the LDS church for a time. i think the purpose was to find out if you might be happier without the religion. something along those lines.

                  sorry, just thought i'd try to get this thread back on track!
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                  • Originally posted by smokymountainrain View Post
                    guys. guys! i just re-read the OP and i'm quite certain BM was talking about taking a vacation from Mormonism. like leaving the LDS church for a time. i think the purpose was to find out if you might be happier without the religion. something along those lines.

                    sorry, just thought i'd try to get this thread back on track!
                    Anybody been to Nauvoo recently? Seems like a nice trip.
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                    • Originally posted by smokymountainrain View Post
                      guys. guys! i just re-read the OP and i'm quite certain BM was talking about taking a vacation from Mormonism. like leaving the LDS church for a time. i think the purpose was to find out if you might be happier without the religion. something along those lines.

                      sorry, just thought i'd try to get this thread back on track!
                      Turned into one of my favorite threads. Thanks BM!
                      "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                      "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                      "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                      • Originally posted by All-American View Post
                        Anybody been to Nauvoo recently? Seems like a nice trip.
                        We'll be heading to Nauvoo the first week of July as part of our summer vacation. Also Palmyra, Kirtland, and Independence.

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                        • Originally posted by All-American View Post
                          Anybody been to Nauvoo recently? Seems like a nice trip.
                          I love Nauvoo. We had a family reunion there a few years ago. That's a very Mormony thing to do, yes, but it really was fun. There's some nice trails if you're a runner, too.
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                          • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                            I hope so. My wife has to work, so that complicates things a bit. I'm fearless when it comes to language, but my wife's got some serious apprehension about going to everywhere but the Uk and Croatia (a colleague at Coker from Croatia is meeting us there). I just know that I've never had a problem communicating and you can usually find someone who speaks one of the other languages I speak. The only time in my life I've ever had a problem was in Innsbruck, Austria in 1995 at 5AM on a Sunday morning. We left the train station and not a one of the taxi drivers spoke English. When I asked, "Sprechen zie Spanglich?" they looked at me like I was the dumbest person on the planet. We had to walk a few miles to find somewhere open where someone spoke English, because my German was limited to "Bitte, ich moechte ein zimmer" and stuff like that. We were trying to catch a bus to Liechtenstein and that was beyond my skill set.
                            Last year in Zurich, I was trying to explain to an uber driver on the phone where we were in German and it was going poorly. Since French is one of the official languages of Switzerland, I tried my hand with French, and the dude yelled something at me, hung up, and cancelled the trip. Apparently in the German part of Switzerland, everyone knows German and English, and sort of goes out of their way not to speak/learn French, which cracks me up.
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                            • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                              I hope so. My wife has to work, so that complicates things a bit. I'm fearless when it comes to language, but my wife's got some serious apprehension about going to everywhere but the Uk and Croatia (a colleague at Coker from Croatia is meeting us there). I just know that I've never had a problem communicating and you can usually find someone who speaks one of the other languages I speak. The only time in my life I've ever had a problem was in Innsbruck, Austria in 1995 at 5AM on a Sunday morning. We left the train station and not a one of the taxi drivers spoke English. When I asked, "Sprechen zie Spanglich?" they looked at me like I was the dumbest person on the planet. We had to walk a few miles to find somewhere open where someone spoke English, because my German was limited to "Bitte, ich moechte ein zimmer" and stuff like that. We were trying to catch a bus to Liechtenstein and that was beyond my skill set.
                              What languages do you speak?

                              BTW, I am currently studying Japanese like crazy to try to revitalize my old skills. It is fun and things are coming back quickly. Also, together with my wife and son we are all trying to lean Spanish. So it is a daily language fest at the Lebowski home.
                              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                              • Looks awesome, Wuap. My family and I were in Croatia for three months last year () and we spent a week each in Bosnia and Montenegro. You are probably doing a side trip to Mostar, Bosnia and Kotor, Montenegro. My advice: skip the Mostar trip and spend more time in Montenegro. Kotor is the most stunning place I've ever seen; the old town is amazing (but touristy), but there are dozens of other towns on the bay that have a nice place to eat seafood and spend the day. Mostar, on the other hand, has a famous bridge and that is pretty much it; and that bridge is a replacement of the original bridge which was destroyed in the Croat-Serb-Bosniak cluster F of a few decades ago.

                                TL;DR: more croatia/montenegro, less mostar.

                                Also, too much UK time for my taste, but to each their own.

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