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re: Ever have a carefully planned trip just fall apart by the time you're ready to leave?
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:12 am to Pvt Hudson
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:12 am to Pvt Hudson
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Had a weeklong trip to Italy planned for our anniversary - We were scheduled to leave 9/15/2001.
That is a bummer.
We had a week in Paris set for early Oct. 2021. Decided to go for it. The planes were almost empty, and security was tight.
Was watching CNN International in Paris when they reported that F-16s escorted a Delta 757 flying ATL to LA to Shreveport after a passenger passed a threatening note to a flight attendant. Weird experience.
Flew home on 10/11. Had a jumbo jet pretty much to ourselves.
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Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:14 am to fr33manator
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Even had some hiking sticks made, bespoke, for my brother and I. From the same piece of domestic mahogany, which barely exists anymore. Wrote a damn poem about it.
You wrote a poem about another man’s wood?
Happy pride month
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:15 am to fr33manator
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From the same piece of domestic mahogany, which barely exists anymore. Wrote a damn poem about it.
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Wrote a damn poem about it.
Maybe people are backing out because they don't want to be inundated incessantly with poetry.
In all honesty though, that sucks. Just make the best of it and hope the next time goes better; that's about all you can do.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:22 am to fr33manator
You do what you can for those who go and are willing to participate, most importantly spouse, kids and parents. I dealt with this and “back outs” etc… for years and just went with the “we’re going” and “hope you can join us” model and it’s been great. I begged a sibling to do full family vacations for 12 years while both parents were able/alive and all kids were able to go and they never did it. Now its too late. Can’t get that back. I did it and loved every second and photo etc…. No “ragrats”! 
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:23 am to fr33manator
Ok Ned Flanders, you’re suppose to guilt trip your favorite people into coming. They’ll thank you later
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:36 am to fr33manator
Trips with our in-laws are almost always a shitshow."the best laid plans..."
I loathe trying to help them plan anything. We have kids, my wife's brother has none. They are constantly causing everyone to change plans because of stupid pointless shite. I wish the parents would just stick to their guns. Here are the dates, we are going, try to make it if you can.
My side is very much here's the plan, we are going, if you can make it, great. We have one big family trip each year, and we book the next year's trip ON that trip. One of my brothers has an "active social life" and always proposes changing dates so they can do something silly, but my dad says... well, hope you can make it. lol. That's me.
All that to say, you went thru a great deal of planning. Make sure it's an amazing trip and plan accordingly in the future.
I loathe trying to help them plan anything. We have kids, my wife's brother has none. They are constantly causing everyone to change plans because of stupid pointless shite. I wish the parents would just stick to their guns. Here are the dates, we are going, try to make it if you can.
My side is very much here's the plan, we are going, if you can make it, great. We have one big family trip each year, and we book the next year's trip ON that trip. One of my brothers has an "active social life" and always proposes changing dates so they can do something silly, but my dad says... well, hope you can make it. lol. That's me.
All that to say, you went thru a great deal of planning. Make sure it's an amazing trip and plan accordingly in the future.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:36 am to fr33manator
quote:Yes.
Anyway, I'm bummed tonight and was so excited earlier today. Ever had something like this happen?
Consequently I’ve given up on expectations when traveling. That way vacations turn out to be great.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:38 am to CocomoLSU
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Maybe people are backing out because they don't want to be inundated incessantly with poetry.
Eh, it was mostly for my buddy who hand carved them because he appreciates that shite. It's just what I do.
I'm finding it very hard to even get up this morning. So much to do. Hoping to find some motivation. The day is finally here and...eh, screw it. I write too much anyway
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:42 am to fr33manator
I planned an 11 night stay in Bermuda. Spent 6 months researching restaurants, activities. Booked private charters, dinners, boat rentals, activities at the hotel, etc.
Two weeks before the trip, my mother in law gets diagnosed with cancer. We shifted everything to her needs and wound up saving her life.
Lucky for us I bought travel insurance and was refunded.
The bummer….I planned to postpone the trip and go this summer. Wife came to me six months ago saying she can never go to Bermuda as she will just be triggered.
I have been there once before 20 years ago on a port call, and my dream if I ever made it in life was to take my family there. Maybe I will just take a solo trip for myself!
Two weeks before the trip, my mother in law gets diagnosed with cancer. We shifted everything to her needs and wound up saving her life.
Lucky for us I bought travel insurance and was refunded.
The bummer….I planned to postpone the trip and go this summer. Wife came to me six months ago saying she can never go to Bermuda as she will just be triggered.
I have been there once before 20 years ago on a port call, and my dream if I ever made it in life was to take my family there. Maybe I will just take a solo trip for myself!
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:49 am to fr33manator
This sounds like the very common stress before a trip deal. People get stressed out and their minds find many reasons not to go on a trip. This is because they will be out of their comfort level. Plug on and enjoy with who is there. The money side sucks. They should still help pay.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:52 am to fr33manator
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It's just what I do.
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I write too much anyway
At least we agree on that.
Just stay focused on having a good time and you most likely will.
This post was edited on 6/9/23 at 7:53 am
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:12 am to fr33manator
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I mean part of me feels like an a-hole I'm even annoyed. Legit medical issues that i hope are nothing with a family member. But I was really looking forward to fun family time, all the cousins and siblings together. Now, who knows.
Disappointed expectations, no matter how good the justification, are always a bitch to deal with. Just part of being human, man. No reason to feel like it reflects poorly on you
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:13 am to fr33manator
My big concern is whether I get to go. Everybody else is mostly incidental.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:14 am to OweO
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Honestly, its hard to plan something like a vacation with more than 3 or 4 people.
Yes it is. I'm pretty much obligated to travel overseas to see my wife's family every year. 2 brother in law, 2 sister in law. Mother in law and a 3 year old nephew. Needless to say I'm just along for the ride.
Everything takes so much longer and going out revolves around eating or shopping.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:15 am to fr33manator
We had planned our return trip to Colorado/SE Wyoming in June of 2015. (We had gone the year before and fell in love w/it).
We had the AirBnB in Denver booked, our room at the Hotel Wolf in Saratoga, WY booked, flight to Denver, and everything that we were gonna do planned out(mostly hiking/sightseeing).
We were literally 24 hours from flying to Denver and I was on my way home from work heading to the chiropractor when my wife calls me and says "We Have a Baby!" I asked her to repeat it and then she said that the adoption agency had called and told us that we had been placed w/a newborn baby girl. I stopped by her work and we gave each other a long, emotional embrace and then we had to cancel all of our reservations. Thankfully everyone was very understanding and we were only out of pocket for half of our plane tickets.
So instead we spent our vacation getting a crash course in taking care of a newborn and parenting and getting to bring home our 6 lb./5ounce beautiful baby girl. And it was a vacation well spent. My wife ended up getting a month off maternity leave on top of the week of vacation.
That little bundle of joy turns 8 next Sunday.
We had the AirBnB in Denver booked, our room at the Hotel Wolf in Saratoga, WY booked, flight to Denver, and everything that we were gonna do planned out(mostly hiking/sightseeing).
We were literally 24 hours from flying to Denver and I was on my way home from work heading to the chiropractor when my wife calls me and says "We Have a Baby!" I asked her to repeat it and then she said that the adoption agency had called and told us that we had been placed w/a newborn baby girl. I stopped by her work and we gave each other a long, emotional embrace and then we had to cancel all of our reservations. Thankfully everyone was very understanding and we were only out of pocket for half of our plane tickets.
So instead we spent our vacation getting a crash course in taking care of a newborn and parenting and getting to bring home our 6 lb./5ounce beautiful baby girl. And it was a vacation well spent. My wife ended up getting a month off maternity leave on top of the week of vacation.
That little bundle of joy turns 8 next Sunday.
This post was edited on 6/9/23 at 8:43 am
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:16 am to StanSmith
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I'm pretty much obligated to travel overseas to see my wife's family every year.
frick that, don't understand the mandated trips, usually mandated by the wife, that are "permanent traditions"
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:17 am to fr33manator
Every week. I’m in project management and my customers love finding excuses the week of the start date to push back installs.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:22 am to fr33manator
Me and a bunch of friends rented an RV for Phish at the Gorge in 2018. Well, for various reasons, it ended up being only 2 of us that could make it. We decided to ask one of my buddies if he knew anyone who would want to throw in and stay in the RV, because we didn't want to eat the extra costs.
My buddy recruited a bunch of his friends to throw in and stay in the rv with us. The friends ended up being a bunch of wooks who had nitrous tanks and were selling it from our RV. They almost got us kicked out of the campground, and they were just overall very wook-ish. We tried policing them and keeping order while tryin to be cool at the same time, but they were a bit unruly. Scenario ever happens again, I'll gladly eat the cost.
My buddy recruited a bunch of his friends to throw in and stay in the rv with us. The friends ended up being a bunch of wooks who had nitrous tanks and were selling it from our RV. They almost got us kicked out of the campground, and they were just overall very wook-ish. We tried policing them and keeping order while tryin to be cool at the same time, but they were a bit unruly. Scenario ever happens again, I'll gladly eat the cost.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:24 am to fr33manator
no comment , it doesn't matter any longer. damn
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:27 am to fr33manator
quote:Anything negative that has happened to you is because you posted this bespoke sentence.
Even had some hiking sticks made, bespoke, for my brother and I.
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