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Originally Posted by COFlyerCLE (Post 12765952)

I have M&Ms on my desk. Will that help? :D

I keep hershey dark miniatures around in our office. I like 'em!:D

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Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 12765971)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1151/...22b03902c5.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/...92926ef604.jpg

emmmm, just love it.

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 12765968)

Wow - WikiTravel really makes South Africa sound like a safe place. :rolleyes:

Many places are not that safe for foreigners, though CPT is noted to be different than the mess called Jo'burg.

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Originally Posted by belynch (Post 12765813)

Nothing says romance like 3 weeks in Saskatoon.
we went to Hawaii on our vacation this summer

There's a travel theme forming there: "Locales that don't do Daylight Savings." If you've vacationed in AZ, all you're missing in North America is a little bit of Indiana, I think.

Interesting new route from Airtran: CAK to MKE operated by SkyWest CRJs. Um, okay....

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12766013)

emmmm, just love it.

Saskatoon is the most boring place I have ever visited.

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12763875)

Freshman year in college, a girlfriend and I took the train down for a football game at Princeton. We concluded that Princeton Junction must be a suburb, decided to wait for the real Princeton at the next stop, which, on that particular express, was (30th St? don't remember) Philadelphia. Not only missed the first half (which mattered little; it was, after all, Ivy League, not real, football) but also a halftime show that was long remembered for its, well, bawdy good humor.

:p re: Ivy League football. It's been very funny to come back and watch Harvard-Yale after my SEC years...probably most of the high schools in Louisiana could give either of those teams a run for their money, poor things. It's a great excuse for a reunion, though - in lieu of an official "homecoming," that's the yearly event for which one can expect the largest number of alums to come back (across all class years).

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Originally Posted by Scott6067 (Post 12764485)

In FRA. COLPUCK has been spotted and has made it here. All is well so far. Glad I brought the extra bag for the SWAG!! Have a great day everyone just waking up in the states!!

Yay!!

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Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12764839)

Mr. Brit has done this on several occasions ..... :D Many a time I have had to hop in the car and drive to Jersey Avenue or Princeton Junction to collect his weary soul!!!

Ooohhhh. Lucky him. I have no idea what I would do in that situation - there are friends, good friends, and "can you get out of bed at 1 am and come collect me" friends. :eek:

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Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12765279)

CLE has a great light rain system connecting the airport to downtown and two locations on the east side.

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 12765328)

As you know, one of the east side lines was essentially built to get commuters from Shaker Heights downtown. The problem is that it is only useful for going from Shaker or Euclid downtown or to the airport.

Phudnik is totally right - a more interconnected "web" would be much better, though I personally got very lucky growing up because my school was at the eastern terminus of one line, and my house was a block from a stop on the same line. I idn't take the RTA to school that often but every once in a while it was a better alternative to walking if I didn't have a ride. And then Shaker Square, downtown, and the airport were all super easy.

I never drove in Boston until the year after I graduated - and I remember thinking "now I have to learn to navigate above ground - so different!"

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Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 12766096)

re: Ivy League football....
in lieu of an official "homecoming,"

Yes, they kept alive some football traditions dead for generations in the rest of the country: the single wing, the drop kick.

There are homecoming-philes of course. I happened to be in Cambridge couple years ago during ReunionFest, and the Class of '37 (do the math!) official location was a meeting room in Currier House. I wondered if oxygen and Emergency Response was stashed away close at hand.

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12766165)

Yes, they kept alive some football traditions dead for generations in the rest of the country: the single wing, the drop kick.

Wonder what happened to the leather helmets....

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12765301)

What did you find now?

I am thinking of doing a IAH-ORD-JFK-ZRH // VIE-JFK-ORD-IAH redemption for the summer.

I figure if I'm going to burn the miles to Europe, it better be good. I am tempted to burn them to Asia but Japan and Australia/NZ are our only interests.

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 12765321)

So far, I have JFK-IST-FRA-JNB in TK and LH F. I'm not sure if the IST-FRA backtracking will fly, but I suppose I will find out when I call. Finding 2 seats has been pretty easy as well. ^

I'm still searching for the return, but it will probably just be in C (to allow for more carriers) with a stop over somewhere in Europe.

It's a shame you guys need to route through ORD to get to JFK.

A shame, indeed. Doesn't this require the JFK -> LGA shuffle?

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12766235)

Wonder what happened to the leather helmets....

Ray Lewis happened.

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Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12765541)

........ wobbly bonkers.

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Originally Posted by belynch (Post 12765833)

.....rather wobbly bonkers ....

Thank you gentlemen, for keeping my coffers filled. Royalty checks can be sent to Brituchenite, c/o FT, Pandlyland Lane, Pandyland.

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Originally Posted by Phudnik (Post 12765617)

Niagara Falls is OK for a couple of hours, but I wouldn't want to spend much more time there. Niagara-on-the-Lake is a nice enough place to spend an afternoon, though.

We spent a day in Niagara on the Lake this summer. It's very pretty, and quite a nice spot for a day trip. I enjoyed it. Wouldn't really want to spend too many days there, though.

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12766028)

If you've vacationed in AZ, all you're missing in North America is a little bit of Indiana, I think.

I used to live in Tempe and I've been to Indiana (just realized that I need to add that trip to my FM).

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Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 12766071)

Saskatoon is the most boring place I have ever visited.

eh.
I'm going to fly Westjet there so I can earn Eh+ Rapid :rolleyes: points.

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Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12766344)

Royalty checks can be sent to Brituchenite, c/o FT, Pandlyland Lane, Pandyland.

What's the zip?

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Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12766344)

We spent a day in Niagara on the Lake this summer. It's very pretty, and quite a nice spot for a day trip.

Niagara on the Lake is nice. For 24 hours.

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Originally Posted by belynch (Post 12766381)

What's the zip?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: