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The one where Steve falls asleep
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Planes, trains, and Spain. The gang is still talking about travel this week. Paco stirs up trouble in Cuba, Doug gets banned from Ireland, and Steve puts hot rocks on his face. Classic.
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Sleep Driving: A Humorous Hazard
00:00:00
Speaker
I don't know if you would remember just because of the situation but definitely the most absurd place I saw you fall asleep was you were driving.
00:00:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's, yes, 100% like, uh, Betty was asleep in the back of the car. I don't remember where we were coming from. I think we were at maybe Barcade or maybe the like, um, uh, I dunno, one of those stupid Brooklyn bars or whatever. And, uh, and I think I was staying with you and Betty.
00:00:32
Speaker
for the weekend or so. I don't remember any of the framing, but yeah, we were driving back and we were on like the BQE at one point and you were just, you fell asleep and we're just like accelerating. And I was like, what is happening? And then we- When I fall asleep, I put all my weight on my right foot. So I just had to be on that guy, just slumped over and just-
00:00:56
Speaker
I woke you up from that and then we get off at whatever the exit was and you fell asleep and we came to a stop. And I woke you up and you're like what? And we kept going. I fell asleep driving and I intentionally pulled over to the side.
00:01:14
Speaker
No, no, no, we like our whatever our ramp was to get off the BQE. Yeah, you like fell asleep on the ramp. So we just like kind of came to a stop. And then I woke you up again. And your response was like, like, I was the bad guy. What? And then you just kept
00:01:32
Speaker
I just kept we just kept going and all that was like, that felt I was like, man, that feels a little dangerous. But it did get real dangerous until we were like, on like actual streets, like avenues. And we were just again, you fell asleep again. And I guess you fell asleep with your foot on the gas and we were just
00:01:49
Speaker
just stop signs and red light. I was like, I don't know. I guess this is, I guess this is a fun way to go out, but I don't recall that sounds horrifying.
Travel Preferences: Beach vs. Adventure
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Speaker
Uh, going, going back to the Mexico thing. All right. So you're going to your, uh, you're going to Mexico tomorrow. You've been there previously. Are you, uh, what type of, what type of traveler are you meaning? Like, do you want to, like, when you go on vacation, you're just checked out. You're just on a, you know, you're on a blanket, blanket. That's a weird, I want to rest on the beach and do nothing. Or do you like out? Like you want to go to activities? No, no, not the activity. I've been that way before. I remember not, um, I,
00:02:38
Speaker
Most of the traveling that we're doing that I mean, I seem to enjoy is when there's like one or two planned events, then you kind of the rest, you just kind of let it happen, especially with the kids. They, as, as many plans as I have, they just end up being, um, I try to make sure there's the ability to cancel or not pay ahead because they're able to make us either later. They won't want to go at all. So that's many times that would happen.
00:03:02
Speaker
So in the resort field, it's nice that everything is there and like we can do, they, all they want to do is like go to the pool and enjoy like that outside stuff. So we'll, you know, we'll have a beach day. We'll have the, that one excursion day, we're going to go to, uh, X carat. And then, um, you know, they'll for this place, I haven't done this before, but supposedly they're saying that, um, you know, when we go there, there's a, there's a concierge that sets up all of our dinners because some are nicer than others. They're all, it's all included, but you want to have, um, reservations ahead of time. So I kind of got that all set up.
00:03:33
Speaker
We're gonna do a spa day one of the days nice when the kids do a like a kids camp For no for part of it. Yeah, I'm gonna get the cucumbers on the eyes or We'll see. No, it's a it's a hot stone massage. I've never done one of those so like on the eyes I've never done this before Right
00:03:58
Speaker
I think it's working. I don't know. That's not good at all. No. But so you'd rather for sure, it sounds like you'd rather like like you're traveling somewhere. You'd much prefer like going to like a resort on the coast over, say, like going to Mexico City and like walking around. You know, I would like to do that, too. But I have done that before. But it's honestly, it's mostly with the kids. Just like,
00:04:27
Speaker
We want to go travel to cities with them, but for the history and experience and tours, but right now they don't have, they can't absorb any event. They don't have like really the pace. It's a lot of complaining and whining. And then it's me, it's me, you know, inevitably I'm taking, they're taking turns with doing the piggyback rides and then, you know, I get more now. So that's happened enough where I've, this is, this is best for everybody. Just doing it this way. Yeah.
00:04:54
Speaker
I think like the age that they're in right now, it's like this. And I think we're another big thing we're going to probably do is I think next year or the year after, like Betty's family, especially the older generation, they want to do, they don't like vacations, but they do like, like luxury cruises. So they want to do, there
Family Travel vs. Solo Adventures
00:05:13
Speaker
you go. Yeah. So that is something that they are, have always talked about, like all of her family,
00:05:19
Speaker
20-30 people like on a cruise together and I've never done anything like that like we've done small groups meet us in another family maybe I think that but um I think we might do something like that but that's kind of what it is for now that type of travel and those type of vacations I think I mean I think it is definitely a different type of travel when you have like kids verse when you're you know just doing your own thing or even like you know with it with your wife but with no kids it's like completely different yeah
00:05:49
Speaker
Yeah. So it's, um, no, but they'll, I know they'll, they'll have a great time. So you've never done a cruise. Uh, we've, I've done, um, I want to say, I want to say three cruises, but never like the, like the super nice. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't gone since we were like dating. Um, we went to like, you know, the bottom of, like, I guess it's carnival, the like the lowest tier. It might be something below them.
00:06:14
Speaker
But I never did like Royal Caribbean or princess or any of those. Those are the ones I hear about the most. Like when we went, it was okay. It was nothing too great. But, um, uh, I, it sounds like just based on the feedback from like relatives that they, uh, you know, they're, the experience is like amazing. If you go to the right ones and you do the right type and the right amount of duration and travel away, it could really, um, you know, so, uh, now I'm looking for, I'm not, I'm not opposed to cruises though. I'll
Luxury Train Travel Desires
00:06:40
Speaker
definitely do it. Uh, I think Viking does the like super luxury cruises.
00:06:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's where they tend to Mediterranean. They do. Yeah, they do the Mediterranean. They do it in Alaska. They do it down like the Galapagos, like some European rivers and also the Nile. So they're kind of all over the place. But those are like
00:07:02
Speaker
They're almost luxury cruises because the boats are so small. They only hold like, let's say, like 200 people or something. It's like a much more intimate experience. I've never done a cruise, but I'm actually going on my first one in August. Really? What are we talking? From Seattle
Solo Travel: Challenges & Joys
00:07:21
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up to Alaska. Oh, you're doing an Alaska one. Nice. Yeah. I've never been to Alaska, never been on a cruise.
00:07:29
Speaker
I really want to do, um, I've done a few cruises. I do want to do an Alaska cruise. I've heard those are very nice, especially for like whale watching and stuff, but, uh, I kind of want to do, uh, um, some sort of like multi-day train travel, like a luxury train, which, uh, in the States that's not really a thing, but apparently even as close as like
00:07:49
Speaker
you can do Canada via rail and they have like luxury cabins and they have like all these observation booths and stuff and you go from Vancouver to Toronto and I think it's like four days or something, but there's just something like very charming about that. I don't know. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's just like, yeah, actually I thought about doing something like that. I think there's like from like Chicago out to like California, I think there's a train that goes
00:08:16
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Yeah, there's sleeper cars that are Amtrak though, and they're fine, but they're... Yeah, haven't been updated in a while. I don't know. It's kind of expensive, and in my mind, it's not really that worth it, at least in the States, unfortunately. That makes sense. Yeah, it's never been on my radar. What does a luxury train look like? You said observation booths.
00:08:43
Speaker
levels in there. Yeah, so they'll have like, and it's almost probably easier like to, well, I'll paint a picture, but then probably a JPEG will do better. So they'll have cars at the top part of the car is all glass. So you just kind of sit and it's almost like a dome that you're sitting and you can kind of see, you know, the Rockies or whatever in all directions and kind of observe wildlife or whatever.
00:09:07
Speaker
And then the luxury part tends to be around the like room size. So a lot of like Amtrak sleepers, you if you're in there with like, say a partner, you're on like separate beds. It's like two, like two bunk beds effectively. Whereas this luxury one, the room has like a Murphy king size bed that folds down. Okay.
00:09:27
Speaker
Um, so yeah, there's just like some specific niceties, uh, that kind of kind of go with it. But, um, but yeah, there's something again, very, uh, very charming. I've definitely done sleeper cars in Europe. Uh, and those have been okay. Not like the nicest things in the world, but I took a 19 hour train ride, uh, to Denmark. That was not a luxury one at all. Yeah. We were in the back area.
00:09:57
Speaker
And I think there was a toilet that was right there and it overflowed and it was a hot mess.
00:10:08
Speaker
I mean, yeah, speaking of non luxuries, like some of those like the Amtrak sleeper rooms, the ones that are not when you kind of pay the base level, you go in and the room is is pretty small. It has the room has like two seats. And when you want to go to sleep, the seats kind of fold down into like a bed lightly. They go 70 degrees.
00:10:29
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which that's like, that's fine. But the part that makes it kind of a little sketch is this, the one of the seats, you can lift it up and that's your that's your toilet. It's just it's just playing chess and it's
00:10:46
Speaker
Not only is it form, it's function. What about you, Paco? What are you trying to do as far as, when you go somewhere, is it like, are you just passing out on a beach? No, I'm the complete opposite of corner. Really? I'm like, so- Is it due to the complete lack of obligations or- I think so. That probably has a good amount to do with it. So that means I could do whatever I want and not cater to little kids.
00:11:15
Speaker
But I think that the most recent big trip was to Spain and we did running with the bulls. I went with a couple of friends. And we very loosely had an itinerary. There was a couple of things that we wanted to do. But other than that, we rented a car.
00:11:33
Speaker
We we drove around and we hit like so many things like we were Absolutely exhausted at the end of every single day But we got a lot of activities said a lot of activities a lot of walking a lot of like just fun stuff that you know to us that was fun and we just packed it that you know with so much that I feel like I got a
00:11:57
Speaker
pretty decent sense of like the different areas of Spain and and and the different you know subcultures and whatnot but yeah I'm more of a you know want to do a lot of things when I'm out and going back to like you know going to something like stoneheads right and it's like ah neat or whatever I prefer I've done like solo travel
00:12:21
Speaker
And I find myself that I prefer having somebody with me because even seeing something like Stonehenge, if I was alone and be like, eh, whatever, but having somebody else there, it kind of, uh, you know, you get excited or whatever. And it's, it's kind of like, uh, I don't know how to put it. You reinforce each other's excitement a little bit. And I find that to be more fun. Yeah.
00:12:46
Speaker
That's true. Although sometimes, I mean, what's nice is if you're traveling with somebody who has a similar travel or, or, or enjoys similar, like, like somebody who's like very much wants to go everywhere and do all these activities, pair it up with somebody who just wants to sit on the beach and read a book. That's, uh, you definitely have to find a good like travel partner or group or whatever. Yeah. You have to be on the same page for sure. Um, yeah. I've never done the solo travel thing. That's uh, what, what's the, um, you said what the, the back
00:13:16
Speaker
I guess, what the advantage would be about not traveling solo, but what have the solo trips been that you've taken? I was in Amsterdam and Germany solo for some time. Were you solo the whole time in Amsterdam or did you end up... He started that way, he didn't finish that way.
00:13:40
Speaker
I've been to Amsterdam like multiple times, but the first time I was- This character assassination. The first time I was like, Solo, the good thing is like you, you're in charge of your own little itinerary, you could change it up. The other good thing is like, if you have the- Don't put up with your questions what you're doing, right? Or where are you going?
Travel Mishaps & Lessons Learned
00:14:07
Speaker
What are you doing in that part of town? Don't worry about it. The other good thing is if you're the type of person that's maybe a little bit outgoing or comfortable with talking and meeting to other people, that's awesome. I stayed at a hostel and that's great for meeting new people,
00:14:31
Speaker
And like, um, and, and that also helps with getting to know different like subcultures and you become friends. It's like kind of a whole little thing. And that was always like super fun. Um, so I liked that part of it, but then I did like, I know, like I enjoy it more when I have at least one other person with me to share that experience with. Right. Someone to make your photos a little less sad.
00:14:56
Speaker
Yeah, a little bit. Just a little bit. You don't have to frown in every photo. Just thumbs down in every photo. So that there's somebody else in the selfies, you know. That's right. How about you, Doug? Have you done the solo tricks? I've done solo tricks. I've done. I said I was thinking trip and trek together makes a trick. No?
00:15:21
Speaker
What kind of tricks do you do, Doug? Yeah, not the best radio format. I've definitely done trips where I've, for portions of the trip, been by myself for one reason or another, like some leg of the trip, I'm by myself.
00:15:41
Speaker
I was actually gonna I was gonna ask about like worst travel experience and definitely mine is somewhat related to to being by myself but I had a also has to do with Spain Paco but I remember when this was this must have been like 2012
00:15:57
Speaker
2013 or something. I did the Tomato Festival outside of Valencia. It was a good time. I was in London for a minute right before meeting up with some friends, but I was just there by myself. I met up with them, but everything else for the most part, I was by myself.
00:16:20
Speaker
And then I met up with some different friends in Valencia to do the tomato festival. But then I was also in Barcelona at the end of the trip by myself and all the stuff on paper was relatively fine, except everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, including like ending up at one point with
00:16:40
Speaker
uh, ended up in Barcelona not knowing where I was or where I was going. And, uh, also my phone was completely dead and completely out of money and no way to access money. So, uh, yeah, it was like a very, like having somebody else there would have made that situation a little less, uh, uh, stressful, let's say.
00:17:03
Speaker
Yeah, I obviously made it home. So it wasn't the worst. But like, yeah, so many things went wrong on that trip. And then by the end of it, by the end of it, I actually I got myself to my Airbnb that night in Barcelona. Again, no, no money, no dead, dead phone, no way to charge the phone. And then and then I just had to sit up all night because I was like, I can't go to sleep. So I have a way to wake myself up to catch my flight in the morning.
00:17:33
Speaker
I did end up falling asleep and then like woke up in a panic but had no idea what time it was like I went outside it was like still dark so I could like reason that it was within the timeframe and then I couldn't like take up like a
00:17:49
Speaker
bus or train or anything. I had to like walk to the airport from like central Barcelona. Oh, man. Yeah, it was great. Again, I made it home. Everything's fine. You know, no concerns. I actually ended up having enough money to get like, I think I got like a croissant or something at the airport. But yeah, it was just like,
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, just literally having somebody say like, Oh, shit, a bunch of stuff messed up. Like, if there was somebody else there, and you recount this story, it's like, Oh, yeah, you know, like, we did this and that and the other thing. And it's like, I don't know, it's like more memorable, maybe.
00:18:26
Speaker
I remember, I was, I was, yeah, that's true. I was like, pretty much almost like a bunch of calamity happened. I was pretty much, I was close to like out of money back in London, but I had like, I still had like 500 euro or something with me. And so I was like, you know what? I think I'm still okay. I'm okay. I can make this work.
00:18:45
Speaker
But then the day of having to like get to Heathrow and fly to Valencia, two very dramatic things happened. One, I didn't I guess the way like the the tube works is you have to like kind of pay beforehand. And if you don't,
00:19:03
Speaker
Like, you can't get out of, like, the subway. And so, like, a police officer came over, like, because I couldn't get out or whatever, and then he asked, like, where I got on, and he's like, oh, he literally was, like, questioning me as though I was, like, jumping the tube and then trying to rip off. Apparently, if you end up in that situation, you have to pay 180 euro fine. You pay it right there to the police officer. I was like, God. But then at that point- He just thinks it in his pocket. Like, go ahead.
00:19:34
Speaker
I was running so far behind that i was like i can't take the tube to. He throw i just need to get a taxi when i want to get a taxi is that like liberal station or something it's not a good sign that i told the taxi driver i need to go to he throw and.
00:19:52
Speaker
The taxi driver was like, are you sure? Are you sure you want to go to Heathrow at the same? Which is not great. I was like, yeah, I get there. It ends up being like 240 euro. So just just like he was asking because the prices. Yeah, because it was like seven or eight in the morning, it was like all the traffic in London was going on, which it's always there's always a ton of traffic in London anyway. But
00:20:15
Speaker
Yeah, it just took us so long to get there that it cost like a crazy amount. Yeah. So anyway, point of the going back to the original question. Yes, I have done some solo traveling. I don't like it. I feel
00:20:33
Speaker
I'm always a fan of like ground, like whenever I travel, I need to ground myself in some way. And having somebody there with you, I think helps a lot. But but I also will do like a lot of times like Christie and I will have like some recurring show that we watch, like kind of like last thing the end of the night, whether it's like, it's always like some comfort show to like Parks and Rec or, you know, something along those lines, something that we've seen 1000 times, it's just kind of easy to like,
00:21:01
Speaker
zone out and get ready for bed or whatever. We'll do that when we're traveling too. It's almost like- Yourself? Yeah. Yeah. Again, it helps, at least for me, it helps maintain some level of gravity. I would say, yeah, it's definitely justified the apprehension for solo travel if you're... Those kind of experiences, that's crazy. I think- Because I can't... Yeah, if... At least if that kind of stuff was happening,
00:21:31
Speaker
I'd rather be with just if I was on my own, at least because if you had additional people, as far as me thinking about putting
Packing Strategies & Preferences
00:21:39
Speaker
myself in your shoes, it's much preferred if I was on my own dealing with that stuff with an entourage with Betty and the kids. The closest it was that we missed the connecting flight where we were visiting the last time I went to North Carolina to visit my brother. We were at the gate. Everybody was set up.
00:21:55
Speaker
got some food and stuff for the kids and we were waiting, we were like an hour early and they changed the gate and we didn't hear the announcement and I was spending all this time at the souvenir shop getting some stuff for my brother's kids. I was like, oh, we'll bring gifts. And I was getting texts saying like, hey, are you sure we have enough time? And I was like, we got plenty of time. We're at the gate. I'll just waltz over. And then we missed it by, I guess Betty would say, she's like,
00:22:23
Speaker
When I was going over there, I got back and people were leaving. They were like walking away. And it was like, I said, uh, now originally we didn't all have a spot to sit down. And then we, then we did have more space to kind of like, I said, these, all these, uh, all these suckers are leaving all these seats open, you know, my, my, to my benefit. And then everybody from our flight had moved over to the other gate and nobody said a word and we somehow missed the announcement of the speaker. But that's as bad as it got as far as like nightmare scenario, you know, yeah. I mean, I just had to worry about getting it.
00:22:52
Speaker
refunded and finding a flight and it ended up not being that bad. We had to wait for the next flight to come up and it took... So our one hour layover became like a four hour layover or something like that. So it wasn't horrible, but yeah, it's definitely...
00:23:10
Speaker
of the
00:23:26
Speaker
All right, we need to do laundry. So, you know, grab our stuff. And there was this little laundry mat close to our where we were staying. And the lady that was there running is this really nice old lady, but she doesn't speak English or Spanish or any other language that we can communicate.
00:23:44
Speaker
So we're doing hand gestures back and forth. And what I took away from the situation was, yes, she can wash our clothes. And she was saying, be back here by 4. And I was like, OK, we'll do that. Well, that day, we did a walking tour. And we didn't get back until it was maybe 8 or something. And at that point, this was a Friday.
00:24:12
Speaker
At that point, her shop was closed and we were like, ah, no big deal. We'll just get the following day. Then we go off, do our thing, come back the following day. It turns out that she's closed on the weekends and then our flight was on Monday before she opened.
00:24:35
Speaker
my friend that was traveling with us, he lost like all of his clothes. The only thing he had was what he was wearing like that day. And this was like, we were like maybe halfway through like the whole trip.
00:24:50
Speaker
And so, yeah, for the rest of the trip, oh, and we were thinking like, oh, you know, we'll have our clothes shipped back to us. We try to come up with these different scenarios, but it was just like way more expensive to try to get the clothes shipped back. And it was just like, nope, they're gone. All right. And we just, I mean, we just had to leave it there. And hopefully somebody around Prague is enjoying all the clothes that were left there.
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah, I would say and really the only thing that I was sad about like two pieces of clothing one of those like this it was like my traveling pants and I love those because they were like you could dress them up or down and they were lightweight and you know,
00:25:35
Speaker
looked decent is that and actually it was a t-shirt that I think Jason gave me from some like charity organization but the material was like really really soft and I really like that t-shirt those are the only two pieces that that I was like super upset at everything else is like I guess replaceable but in the grand scheme of things like you know that that wasn't that big of a deal but yeah
00:26:00
Speaker
That's, are you, um, do you have a, like, I know for me personally, I, I definitely had enough bad experiences or maybe even just for like convenience. I'm, I can't remember the last time I traveled with anything more than a backpack. Yeah, that's basically my style. No matter how long it is. Like if it's, if it's longer than like five to seven days, whatever, I'll just do laundry and figure out how to do laundry.
00:26:25
Speaker
Uh, the only modification that we've made, um, is, uh, I do, I also like, um, so I have a backpack and I have a tote cause I have found that a tote is the best bag to have underneath the seat. Cause the access is incredible. It's just like, just get in and out. And it just, uh, it works really well, but yeah, I'm.
00:26:44
Speaker
I'm man, I love traffic definitely don't check in a bag, right? Oh my gosh, just so I recent so I that's usually the way I travels like, you know, backpack and and a smaller little day bag type thing. But I was just down in Colorado skiing and the friend that I was traveling with, she checked in her like snowboard. So I was like, All right, we're gonna have to, you know, check bags in anyway. So I decided to
00:27:13
Speaker
check my bag because I got it free anyway, like a free check bag. You know, it's it's the worst and that like reinforced my thinking of like not checking in a bag. So to get it took like 45 minutes to get our bags out onto the carousel. And then because
00:27:32
Speaker
her bag was like an oversized bag. We had to wait until everybody's bag came through first. And then they did the oversized ones afterwards. So we were probably waiting after we got off the plane, maybe like an hour, hour and a half to like finally leave the airport. And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is like terrible. But yeah, I've only had pleasant experiences. I've checked. We've been checking in bags, but it's I try to do cruising cruising for bruising for sure.
00:28:02
Speaker
Um, not like, uh, very, um, minimal amount of time, uh, usually waiting or so. Oftentimes the bag has, it's like right there. It's, it's a pleasure. It's fine. It's a pleasure. Yeah.
00:28:17
Speaker
Actually, I remember being flabbergasted when you showed up in Vegas. I think you had checked your bag. So you were. Did you have a check? No, I didn't check a bag. I did. I had a larger lug. I've only been whenever we're traveling with the kids, because they bring a ton of stuff to the pool and all that. So I have to have checked bags. But now the time that I went by myself, it's been, yeah, always carrying like same as the same. I have a
Worst Travel Experiences
00:28:43
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backpack and I have like something I could put underneath and then I I have
00:28:47
Speaker
The luggage that just meets, it's like the max criteria for the carry-on. Oh, you're like the guy like, no, no, no, it'll fit. It'll fit. Just jamming it, crushing the next guy's hat. That's something.
00:29:01
Speaker
I love that. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Sit down. Sit down. Well, I just do you like when you're on the flight, if you're not attending to kids to say it is like a solo flight or whatever, like what are you what are you doing on the flight? Immediately pass out or do you have some time? No, I I I for the for the flights that have like free movies or things like that.
00:29:27
Speaker
I'll want to start a movie usually, but then I almost always will just close my eyes and go to sleep. I can, for the most part, I could do that. Is it because you're always a little bit tired or is it because the seats are solid? He can fall asleep anywhere. I used to actually, it's gotten worse. I've used to be really good because I would travel, I would do subway to get to like to school and to high school and to work.
00:29:56
Speaker
Coming out of Turner and even scans guy will travel on subway and I would, I got really good. Be able to just either sit down or even standing up, holding onto the rail and just close my eyes and get a little bit in like sleep. And I've lost that since, uh, past 10 years. Maybe I probably lost that, uh, over time just cause either driving or I don't know what, but, um, it's tough to like get like really, really, uh, close my eyes and fall asleep. I at least we'll just try to rest my eyes. I close my eyes.
00:30:24
Speaker
If I can wait, so you've, you've, uh, lost the ability to throw your life away and fall asleep on the train. I don't know. It was, um, it's somehow like that slight rocky back and forth. Yeah. It seemed like it was not as dangerous before, or I would go when it was, uh, like peak hours and somehow with the huddle of people, it felt like more safe as opposed to like.
00:30:52
Speaker
Like now, the hours that I travel, if I were to travel to work now, like I'm there so early, it's very dangerous. I would not do, I would not risk it. But I've been driving in for quite a while now.
00:31:04
Speaker
to get to work probably, yeah, probably most of the past 10 years. I do there's one going back to the travel stuff. The one thing I did want it sounds like neither of you have had like a not like the actual destination, but like that the act of traveling like planes, trains, whatever, cars, I guess, you've never had like a terrible experience. Like it's always been generally pretty good.
00:31:28
Speaker
Thank God. Yeah. Yeah, I would say I would say, yeah, there's like sketchy situations, but like nothing like horrible that would make me like nothing. Nothing stands out. Like I said, the only thing that stood out was like, I lost half of my clothes. That kind of stuff. But that's probably about it. I for me, there was like a mat and I went to Ireland
00:31:57
Speaker
I don't remember when that was, a long time ago. But that trip was crazy because it was kind of the last really big snowstorm. I think this was back in the Northeast. It was, I think, 2012. It kind of shut down New York and Pennsylvania, everywhere.
00:32:16
Speaker
bombarded, but our flight was that day and I had to get from Central PA to New York via initially via a mega bus and that they literally like halfway there. They're just like, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. So we're just going to drop you off in Harrisburg. I was like, that's that's wild that your your mode of transportation is like, nah,
00:32:44
Speaker
So they they dropped us off in Harrisburg and I was able to get an Amtrak, which is very convenient and and and made it to the airport pretty much kind of there was definitely some delays. But because it was like international flight, I was always arriving there multiple hours ahead. So I still got there with like a decent amount of time. But Matt, I don't remember where Matt was coming from.
00:33:06
Speaker
Maybe he was even coming from New York or something at the time. I think, yeah, he lived there. He was concerned about the flight being canceled, so he just took an earlier flight. So initially, Matt and I were sitting together. He decided to take another flight. I get there. I get to the airport and I'm pretty I'm in a pretty good mood because I made it.
00:33:29
Speaker
Yeah, I beat the weather. I beat whatever the universe is trying to throw at me. I was like, I did, I did it. And there's something about like when you get past security and you're good that you just like, there's just like a relief. Yeah, you're just like, all right, it's all good here. I then made a critical mistake. You went to the wrong airport.
00:33:51
Speaker
A friend of mine, that has happened. Yeah, I have done something akin to that, but I wish that was this mistake. Again, so Matt was not on the flight with me, so I was on a window seat and there was a middle seat open where Matt was sitting, so there was that. But my critical mistake was
00:34:12
Speaker
Uh, in general, I try to be pretty, uh, conservative food wise on travel days. I'm just kind of like, I don't really want, I'm just going to, I don't want to overdo it. I'm not going to have like some pizza or something, but anyway, but I was like, yeah, let me have this kiosk tuna sandwich. Oh, sounds delicious.
00:34:31
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was from what I remember, it was delicious. That sounds whatever board the board the flight that the empty seat, I was like, Yeah, nice. Like one of the last people to get on the flight is, I guess they rebooked or they they ended up taking that seat, they booked someone into that seat. And it was, I don't, I don't mean this to be like, offensive in any way more just descriptive, but it was the largest Irish woman I've seen in my life.
00:35:00
Speaker
And by like, like Jake personality. Yeah. And all the like the person like when they're sitting, they're sitting down and she was more kind of just like, like just bulk. She almost seemed like she was like a wrestler or something, but she like sat down and like her elbows were over top of like my chest and the guy next to.
00:35:18
Speaker
Uh, so I was like, Oh man, this could be an interesting flight. And then like, as we're taking off, uh, yeah, that, that tuna sandwich starts to like, it's like, you know what? I don't know if I belong here. And then, uh, I proceed to have food poisoning on this six hour flight. And, um, yeah, I don't know if you ever had food poisoning on a flight, but not fun.
00:35:41
Speaker
I actively avoid it. Yeah, there I mean, there was a point where like I'm so I had to I think I went to the restroom like maybe 10 times on this flight or something like that. And just the when I tell you that I've again, not not to be defensive, but just be descriptive. I've never seen an Irish woman this mad at the fact that I had to keep making her get up. Well, I feel like at that point I would tell both of them to like switch seats with me so that you could be in the
00:36:11
Speaker
Yeah, well, you know, hindsight is 20-20 pocket.
00:36:17
Speaker
What a jerk for not thinking that while you're dying. Just a real nightmare of a flight. Arguably the worst flight I think I've ever had in my life. I guess
Food Poisoning: A Travel Nightmare
00:36:32
Speaker
somewhat self-inflicted. I'm not a religious person, but I remember praying to God in that bathroom.
00:36:42
Speaker
with a sweet release of death. Just please take me right now. Suck me out this toilet. I don't care.
00:36:50
Speaker
I just don't want to exist anymore. Yeah. But again, I made it to the other side and then, yeah, continue to have a horrible time at the Dublin airport. And then had to wait like seven hours for Matt because of that early flight that he took ended up getting delayed in Paris. And so like now I'm just... He had a great time.
00:37:17
Speaker
Yeah, just shows up with his little beret and a baguette. How's it going? Yeah, I do think he had a better time than I did, but mine was, yeah. That happened to, well, not to me, but the person I was flying with. And so we're going from Cancun
00:37:34
Speaker
to Cuba and they got food poisoning in Cancun and that day was like the following morning was our flight over. And so she is like, you know, also had food poisoning, like could barely stay awake. I'm like,
00:37:52
Speaker
trying to hold her up and on the flight over, it was like I was thinking because she was like unresponsive. I was like tapping her on the face like, hey, wake up when the when the flight attendants would come by. And I swear, like, I think they thought I was like kidnapping her or something and taking her back to Cuba because I got so many looks. And then when we arrived to like get through security to get into Cuba, they wouldn't let her
00:38:22
Speaker
like go alone. I had to like talk for her and whatnot. But yeah, that was that was a pretty, pretty bad one. And what sucked was like how many times do you go to Cuba? Right. Like not a whole lot. But she was like done like most of that trip. She was like at the at the Airbnb. And she came out for like just to take a couple of pictures. But the rest of the time she was there, I was like, I kind of felt bad for you. But yeah, it does suck.
00:38:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of a horrible way to start a trip. It's like, wow, this is not a great sign.