EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

You've taken some very nice trips. The kind that appeal to you. That's great.
I've never had much money even when I had a job, but it didn't stop me from figuring out inexpensive ways to travel domestically and internationally.
The basic concept is to wait for extreme air fare sales, regardless of the destination. Book the fare and then figure out cheap lodging. One can normally eat cheap if eating where locals eat or getting food at markets.
Bed and breakfasts and small village out of the way pensiones and bungalows are usually cheap. Even in Europe I never stay in the major cities like London, Paris, Zurich or Rome. For 1/3 the cost, you can stay in a small town outside the city and take a train daily into the city if you must visit a major city. There's just as many cool things to see in the countryside.
Once, in Mexico we stayed and ate in a Mayan village. Only once have we ever stayed at an all inclusive resort and that was only for one night so that we qualified for heavily discounted air to Limon, Costa Rica.
I think I created travel monsters because my kids have adopted the same approach. My daughter takes an exotic trip at least once a year. All but two trips she took alone. On her last trip, she and her boyfriend spent a couple weeks in Columbia. On the trip before that, she found cheap airfare to Iceland so she went there for a couple weeks visiting glaciers and hot springs. Even though she got air fare for about $200, it was one of her most expensive trips due to high food and lodging costs.
Her mantra is "work, save, travel, repeat". I'm very proud of her.
My most notable coup was finding $25 per person roundtrip fare direct from St. Louis to Cancun on my wife's birthday. Her mother wouldn't watch the kids so I took them along. She said, "we're busy this week but we'll watch them next week". I said, "next week isn't her birthday". plus the cheap fare would have been gone. I found a Mayan hut on the beach in Tankah bay for $50 a night. It had no electricity or running water and one night a Jaguar tried to claw its way through the thatched roof but it was wonderful. You had to fill the toilet from the well. There were no window screens, just sticks to keep predators out. That was $250 for air and 3 nights lodging for 4 people on one of the world's best snorkeling beaches. So we could splurge on food at local eateries.
We never went anywhere without taking the kids with us.
I've been to 20 countries, my daughter had been to 27 countries before she was 30 and many of the places I've been, she's been to more frequently.
Go figure.

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It's been an unprecedentedly wet year.
The buffalo gnats have been horrible.
I'm just thinking, as long as one is on high ground, it is probably better than dealing with incessant drought like recent years in CA. A friend in Santa Barbara had over 20 dead palm trees removed from his property last year.

I had a huge maple next to my house die a couple years ago. I wasn't proactive enough to take it down in a timely manner. Parts of it hit my house in windstorms but luckily no permanent damage. The roof is flat and the gutter fills with all sorts of tree debris. I finally muscled the 24' extension ladder onto the back porch roof to get onto the flat roof, clean out the gutter and get all the sticks off the roof right before the last big storm. I mean by minutes.

Where does she watch for air fares?

 

[daxigait]

growing bigger everyday
Mmmmmm

looks chicken



I have a gqf sportsman 1202

what’s best way to get rid of it?

poo-ket

sorry to hear that!!!

remember when the government shutdown happened? Yeah, that was my vacation to Acadia
At least I was still on MDI

Lol

so far, because we've had so much moisture I really don't have a dry spot to keep them in after I treated them so I'm not sure which of the methods is most effective since I can't seem to beat it. I get some progress and then we get another mudhole creating deluge. We have had no more than a day without rain this month, and the end of May we had rain 13 of 14 days (almost 15"). We have not been even surface dry in months.
here are the suggested methods the first and most important than any of them is to clean it out really well get a toothbrush and scrub out in there with the hottest water you can some people use bleach water yes it burns but you got to kill this stuff off. some people suggest giving some la200 and he catch it early enough and have a minor case that might work. after you've cleaned it I have been told several things first you have to dry it no matter what the method. then some people pack the foot with lime and wrap it with that wrap and duct tape. Some people suggest thrush buster, Koppertox, or iodine. the dryer that you can keep them after treating that foot until it heals the better. the suggestion is to treat if you can twice a day or at least once.

 

[daxigait]

Have you been to Acadia National Park in Maine? That's on my wish list as is Denali and the other Alaskan parks. I've been to a good number of the others.

I have seen a lot of the beauty of Alaska, but I have not been to the park in Maine. My brother-in-law seems to be interested in it I haven't looked at it yet.

 

[daxigait]

@BullChick why are you so quiet? did something happen?

 

[BullChick]

I have nothing intelligent to say, and I can only be so stupid before everyone puts me on ignore.

 

[daxigait]

I have nothing intelligent to say, and I can only be so stupid before everyone puts me on ignore.

oh stop it you know that's not true. you would not have so many people would ask you questions and talk to you if it was. You have plenty of things to share and some of them quite funny. so where do you like to vacation? where is your favorite place that you have been?

 

[BullChick]

This family doesn’t do vacation, so I have not been in many years.
I’ve done Disney World numerous times, and I spent two long weeks in the Black Hills of S.D. Lee Greenwood did a small concert. I wasn’t impressed at the time, but that was before 9/11. Now his song is associated with that.
If I ever get to vacation again, I think I’d vacation with you. I miss riding horses. I’d want to go camping in the fall. Cool nights, open air, gorgeous colors of the trees. And a port a potty. I’ll bring an extra horse if I must, I can only take so much squatting.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@BullChick i bet you’ve seen some cool places while in the truck too, even if it wasn’t a ‘vacation’

 

[mlm Mike]

Has anyone else had problems getting on the site? I've had several time out errors from the BYC servers over the last couple weeks.

I haven't had any issues.

 

[casportpony]

Has anyone else had problems getting on the site? I've had several time out errors from the BYC servers over the last couple weeks.

Yeah, been getting a lot of 524 errors.