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midtown

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  1. Ha Noi. Always a great city to visit. Unfortunately due to weather they canceled all boats out on Ha Long Bay. We were in the van about to leave the city and they called and cxld. What a huge disappointment so we did Ninh Binh aka Ha Long on land. We got some bikes and peddled around with our guide down a bunch of tiny little country roads. That was awesome. Ninh Binh was nice but clearly not Ha Long. Open Jeep tour and street food tour. Fun to just walk around and eat/drink. Beer corner is 10x the size it was on my last visit 8 year ago. The women of Viet Nam have discovered implants, skin care, and fashion. 8 years ago hardly a woman worth looking at. Now beautiful women everywhere.
  2. Taking kids Dec 20-24. 16B and 13G. They haven't been in 8 years. Probably see BMG again. Skip Rockettes. did that. Need a good show that kids would like. Advance tickets to Wicked are $128. That seems way excessive. Any other show suggestions. Should we just suffer in the TKTS line? Might do Keens and Frank. Any other teen friendly good dining options. They like all food.
  3. I went with the Chase Infinite United card. Same thing. Club access and I earn PQPs on spends. I was able to get to United silver with very little flying.
  4. I guess this is the go to TSA/GE/Clear thread. WTF IAH? First of all they had 75% of their GE kiosks closed this past Friday which created about a 5 min wait. Just landed a triple from Narita so I assume lots of GE folks. Ok no big deal. No receipt printed anymore. No eye scanner or passport entry. Just a picture and you go through. Now this is where it get interesting. There was another line about 10-15 mins long. Everyone was just looking at each saying wtf is with this? Two CBP officers for GE line. They take your passport and match it with a screen that has everyone's photo from what I can tell. This seems like a step back. How do they even know you have GE? They did reject one guy so I assume they have some facial recognition going on. I asked an officer after I got through about the new procedure and he just said yeah this is the new system. Also IAH the first TSA checkpoint has no pre-check. I went through vs going all the way to a different checkpoint. I assume this is by design that they'd prefer to go full check on everyone.
  5. Buy a high quality Japanese knife like a Masamoto.
  6. Well crap all around
  7. Boom I switched scarfs. So I'm taking credit
  8. The rain is a rebirth
  9. Ugh. We need him badly
  10. Even the commentators and a sooner were saying it without saying it.
  11. Lol. Not a single penalty? The fix is in
  12. If you watch the PL there is no way not to subscribe to Peacock at this point
  13. Back in Texas after two weeks wandering around SE Asia. What a fantastic trip with a few hick ups. Will add more in the coming days. Also. What a difference a few weeks makes at Narita. it was JAMMMED today. And obviously things are dirt fucking cheap. Even had a store owner in Bangkok say "you American rich right now" Visas and immigration were easy as can be. Not a single customs check in any single country. Just waved us on in to spend. Everywhere took dollars in a bind except Thailand. ATMS were plentiful everywhere but it was trial and error on which ones worked with our cards and which ones didn't. As always everyone was so freaking nice. Staff in the hotels bent over backwards. The only place where I felt it was slightly off was Laos due to how we mistreated that wonderful country during the war.
  14. Glad I was sound asleep in a Bangkok hotel
  15. Well I still have my contacts in SE Asia and we've been bringing it in every since. 2 major shipments a year. Its just vacation but but man Laos and now Cambodia are growing like mad. Construction every where. Someone is making a killing here and its pretty much the Chinese.
  16. In Laos and about to be in Cambodia 12 hour difference
  17. Woke up to double wins. Glorious
  18. From Luang Prabang Laos. TEXAS
  19. Fuck Apple fan Boys. BTW. It's hard to watch sports in SE Asia. I'm too old to stay up until 11 or 12pm after being out all day
  20. I was at Ricky run. in the upper deck. I swear that fucker was moving
  21. I thought it was October 11. My buddy was in the JAL lounge and he said it was dead and hardly any food. Maybe we just caught things on an off day. Upon leaving the KAL lounge I saw more noodle shops. Got in late last night. Hotel at 1130 so too late to get out for a beer. I was pretty wiped last night anyway.
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