Some people were asking about honeymoon photos:

Hawaii - Turtle Bay


California - San Francisco


Arizona - The Grand Canyon


New York - New York


Also went to Las Vegas and New Orleans

you kids sure got around

jet lagged much?

not really

Traveled for >24 hours to get to Hawaii and arrived at 10pm. Went out for a quick drink to celebrate our arrival and then slept from midnight until about 9. Was fine after than first night.

After this moving through the time zones an hour or 2 at a time meant it was not such a shock to the system. Traveled for >24 hours to get home from New York and arrived at 8pm. Went to bed and got up at a reasonable time

Cool pics.

...and are now posting at 4:30 in the morning.

gonna have to see that breakdown from ny to wales. even if you live in the tippy top of wales and the coach takes 4 hours, i can't get the math to work.

also TR.

standard for me

0 hours - 1.5 hours: Left for JFK at around 7pm. Went via subway and airtrain so we left plenty of time.
1.5 hours - 4 hours: Get to the airport around 8:30pm for an 11pm flight.
4 hours - 10 hours: Fly for 6 hours
10 hours - 10.5 hours: Disembarking takes ~30 minutes as there is a bus parked in our way.
10.5 hours - 12.5 hours: Wait for our coach in an airport bar (couple of sneaky beers at idk what time)
12.5 hours - 15 hours: Coach goes from Gatwick airport to Heathrow airport (something which should take less than 1 hour even with traffic). 2 lorries had collided and spilt a bunch of cargo on the motorway, brought things to a standstill for a while
15 hours to 18.5 hours: Coach makes its way round various stops and has to make an extra stop so that we could get another driver (lorry and coach drivers are legally only allowed to drive for so many hours in a row and this guy's time was up).
18.5 hours to 19 hours: We wait for the new driver who arrives.
19 hours to 20 hours: We make it to our stop (living in Birmingham now)
20 hours to 21 hours: We call a ****ty but much cheaper taxi service who comes to the bus station and takes us to our house.

So 21 hours and not >24 as I previously said, but well over 24 hours being awake which is the point I meant to make

A week until i am in the USA. Still have barely planned a thing lol

eh, Hope this isn't too boring to most but I'll list a few highlights and random thoughts and you can ask any more specific questions if you want:

- Got upgraded on our first flight to plus class and were treated like celebrities for 9 hours
- Got to Vancouver for a layover and tried some salmon jerky (would not recommend)
- Hawaii won't let you on a bus with a suitcase and so when we moved from a hotel in the south to an apartment in the north we had to get an $85 uber
- There are wild chickens everywhere in Hawaii it seems
- Swam with a turtle in turtle bay
- Went to Alcatraz and thought it was pretty great (lots of birds there)
- Went to Lombard Street and thought how much of a nightmare it would be to live near there with all the tourists standing in the middle of the road
- Went to Castro to see the Harvey Milk stuff which was cool
- Lots of homeless in Castro asking for money and looking in the trash for food. The wife couldn't finish her lunch so we had it boxed up and planned to give it to some guy without a house, but there are none to be found. Ended up leaving it on the top of a trash can for someone to hopefully find.
- Have been to Vegas before but the wife hasn't. I'd told her how crazy it was but she didn't fully understand until she saw a few dozen slot machines at baggage reclaim in the airport.
- We went to see cirque du soleil mystere which was great. Someone I work with and his wife were a couple of rows behind us (small world)
- Played some 9am poker while the wife slept and it was full of old people and very questionable play. Didn't win since it was a crapshoot after the first hour but I got chatting to some old geezers and drank more than my buy in's worth in the form of White Russians. Old guy to one side of me was Canadian and his son in law was a pilot, old guy on my other side of me is from the same city as me and recognised me from our local casino (small world)
- Went to the grand canyon and it was spectacular as always. The skywalk and the western town were now complete (last time I was there which was 10 years ago they were under construction).
- Went on a paddle steamer down the mighty Mississippi. Had lunch, listened to live jazz and listened to a guy narrate in a voice so soothing that it would make Morgan Freeman sound rough.
- Went to Bourbon Street and it was busy as hell in the middle of the day. Would not want to go there for Mardi Gras as it would be unbearable carnage I'm sure.
- Had a great 3 course meal at The Gumbo Shop consisting of gumbo, shrimp etouffee and a praline sundae.
- Went to some the Blue Nile and Spotted Cat to see some jazz in a non touristy setting, but it still felt touristy. (New Orleans is the place we went to that I least want to go back to, but it was still good).
- New York threw everything at us to try to make us miss our trip to the Crown of the Statue of Liberty, but we fought back and made it. There were out of order metro machines, closed subway stations, changes to routes which cut out our stop. We flagged down a taxi for the last few blocks and made it by the skin of our teeth.
- Having crown and pedestal access makes you feel like a celebrity on Liberty Island. You see people queue up asking if they can get in and they are told they need to book way in advance. There are even those who have pedestal access only and get only a fraction of the way up and it's really cramped there. With crown access you get all the way to the top and we were the only ones there then. Just the two of us and a 2 park rangers who took our photo. It's much smaller than you'd imagine, but a fun experience.
- We went to the MoMA the next day and spent a few hours there. It was really interesting to find out a bunch of analysis about things which can seemingly have little meaning (like white on white) and to see a bunch of the famous pictures (starry night, melty clocks etc)

where are you going?

Flying to LA plan to go on a little circuit around the west coast then fly home via NY, though nothings set in stone, i could just decide to drive over to the east coast lol

sounds good

hope you have fun

Cant believe its so close lol

got your ESTA I hope

Tonight, I landed on the freak'n moon (Mun)!!! Here is Jebediah Kerman posing at the landing site. One small step for a Kerbal, one giant leap for Kerbalkind.

Everyone fancies the bar staff
Never play poker with a man named doc
Make up sex is the best sex
Your first mods were always the best

Hotlinkers don't believe in anything.

Did he get home?

Yep. It was a little iffy. I entered the atmosphere pretty hot and my antennas burned up but the heat shield held.

Got about 400,000 kerbal coins and 500 science for the trip.

You don't look like Huck Seed at all

wtf

I've got great recs for LA, San Francisco, and Portland, depending on what you like

NYC too

Your TR sounds like an awesome time, Xander

In other news I went to Noma last night and it was so much better than I was expecting

Like, I was expecting it to be good, and it was just ridiculously amazing in every way

Most money I've ever spent on a meal and don't regret a cent of it

Now I'm taking a day trip to Sweden! Europe is silly like that