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  1. 17 hours ago, beer said:

    I missed this whole group somehow. I really should browse more. PM if you want any info about straight south, that's where I tend to hang out. Have been sort of house shopping for a place on the coast somewhere between Gibraltar and Motril. Granada is 2.5-3 hours by train.  Fútbol team about to get relegated tho. It's not really a day trip but the Alhambra/Generalife is worth the trip. Málaga itself is just kinda "going to the beach" for Brits but driving up the coast up much nicer and full of little places with gorgeous views. Faster to get there going to Granada and renting a car from there ..easy drive to the coast and turn right. 

    May will still be crisp mornings perfect 15-20 degree days all day in the city. Beaches a tad warmer. 

    Don't leave Madrid without a churro. Doesn't sound like much but it is. 

    Churros are proof that God exists and he loves us...

  2. On 4/21/2024 at 12:48 PM, tejas60 said:

    heading to Madrid May 7. can you tell me where/what these pics are? 

    already got tickets to Prado Museum and definitely hitting up Botin Restaurant.

    good job by your son!

     

    Pics 1, 2, and 3 are the cathedral of Segovia.
    Pics 4, 5, and 6 are the Castle Manzanares el Real.
    Pic 7 is Catherdral of Segovia.
    Pic 8 is Castle Manzanares.
    Pic 9 is a dish called Iberico Secreto at La Mi Venta restaurant in Madrid.
    Pics 10 and 11 are wide city views close to the Cathedral of Madrid.

    If you go to Segovia, it's definitely amazing but make sure to drive to Castle de Manzanares.   Old castle, semi restored, beautiful museum and amazing views from the turrets...  https://www.spain.info/en/places-of-interest/manzanares-el-real-castle/

    The drive to La Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.  Mountain views, probably still snow at the summit, and widlife...  https://www.spain.info/en/nature/sierra-guadarrama-national-park/

    Also, after leaving the park, and on the way to Segovia, visit the Royal Palace of La Granja of San Ildefonso.  Its a beautiful palace and chapel with some amazingly landscaped grounds...and the small city has many shops and restaurants on cobblestone streets...  https://www.spain.info/en/places-of-interest/royal-palace-granja-san-ildefonso/

    Segovia speaks for itself.  https://www.spain.info/en/destination/segovia/

    This could be done in a day, but it would be a looong day.  I suggest at least two-three days.  All of this is within an hour and a half, by car, from Madrid.

    HAVE FUN and post pics of the trip...

     

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  3. 5 hours ago, Incredulity said:

    I try really hard to let my kids manage and grow their out sports lives and just be supportive.  Of course I have ideas and attempt to encourage them to think about this or that in a very positive way.  It is so cool when the thing you have helped them with, or suggested, is directly tied to a goal, or good play.

    It was really cool.  Especially considering that, because I never played soccer (just American sports), he tends to completely disregard anything I might say about soccer that is any way tactical...😒

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  4. 18 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    Is your son about to be an international sporting start millionaire ?

    LOL.  He is talented but I'm not sure about all that.  I just want college paid for.  Anything above that is gravy...

    18 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Do what a Spanish dad would do, ditch the kid, he'll be fine, hit on tourists, crash at your mistress' apartment after long begging argument to be allowed back in, repeat.

    Also, Avila, Segovia, Salamanca, El Escorial. They are to the north and north west where your nearest mountain range is. You actually cross mountains to get to those three towns from Madrid.

    Hell you could have fun for a couple of days just riding the subway around Madrid and popping up at various stations Plaza del Sol and Plaza Mayor for just lurking.

    great ideas!  Thx!!

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  5. Will be there for the next 18 days while my sons have soccer tryouts.  Since I am not allowed into the facilities with him, my days are open.  Besides the local sites, I'd like to travel around during the day.  I'll have a car...  Looking for day trip recommendations.  I am very fond of mountain scenery...  Surly help and advice is greatly appreciated.

  6. Summer of 94.  I'm recently married and have a 10 month old..  Dad had a stroke the previous February.  He's feeling his mortality a bit so decides he wants to do a summer "road trip" with his family.  Dad rents a 34 foot motor-home and invites my family along and offers to pay, if I'll do the driving.  I'm game for this so we pile in the RV and set out from Beeville TX.

    We drive out west to the Grand Canyon, head north through Utah, farther north to Yellowstone and the Tetons.  Farther north thru Glacier in Montana and then into Canada on the Ice Fields Parkway all the way to Jasper...and then back south all the way to TX.  NOW, you might say "what a fun and scenic trip!"...and you would be right on the "scenic" part.  The "fun" part, not so much.

    It was fucking miserable.  Eight people are not meant to be in that close of a proximity for 8000 miles and three weeks.

    There were many misadventures on the Griswoldesque road trip.  Among these are the time I fell in McDonald Creek and almost drowned.  The time a fucking Bighorn Sheep appeared out of nowhere on a scenic overlook and tried to run me down, and when my ex dropped a $1300 video camera off the side of a footbridge in Malign Canyon.  However, the real kick in the balls came when, somewhere in Canada, I think on the way to some fucking waterfall (Takawkaw Falls maybe) that my mom desperately wanted to see, I had a "little incident" with the RV.  By little, of course, I mean fucking monumental.  You see, as a 20 year old young man with extensive driving experience in Texas, I paid little attention to road warning signs such as "No vehicles over 24 ft allowed on mountain pass roads."  This had worked well for me on the other roads, especially in the US.  In Canada, not so much.  About a half a mile before the top of this pass, I tried to turn the 34 foot RV left on an especially tight switchback, and found that the vehicle was too long.

    So now what?  Well, as you can imagine, there are not any places where I could simply turn around.  At least not without risking a 1000 foot fall off the mountain.  SO, I had to REVERSE that fucking RV down the mountain, thru switchbacks, about 12 miles, and over three hours before I found a turnout that I could use.  Talk about "ass puckering adventure...  Needless to say, oncoming, and descending, traffic was not happy with the idiot from Texas.  I received many single finger waves and much verbal "encouragement" on my way down.  But i did make it.  Probably the worst three hours I ever spent on the road...  Ex old lady was so scared and carsick, she actually got out and walked...

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  7. 6 hours ago, NoName said:

    the 2009 Texas team finished as the #3 overall FEI team. they had the #17 offense. they were fine, but yeah, not special. that said the OU team was the #2 DFEI team in the country. The Nebraska team was #5. They also scored 21 on the #1 DFEI team (Alabama) with a true freshman QB playing. their offense was fine but not the strength of the team vs the defense.

    regarding guys drafted:

    • GG was drafted in 2014
    • Jordan Shipley was drafted in 2010
    • Marquise Goodwin was drafted in 2013
    • +Justin Tucker (doesn't really count)
    • there were more than a few other dudes who at least were on a NFL roster for a little while or who played for a few years.

    the star power was on defense on that team though drafted guys were Muckelroy, Earl Thomas, Keenan Robinson, Lamarr Houston, Sam Acho, Sergio Kindle, Curtis Brown, Chykie Brown, Emanuel Acho, Aaron Williams, Kheeson Randall, Kenny Vaccaro and Alex Okafor.

    side note, but this kind of says all you need to know about the Texas offense in 2009. 116 catches for 1st place and 39 for 2nd. Shipley caught 4 passes vs OU (what a game plan there btw, Colt threw for 127 yards while going 21/39 for a 3.3 avg lol), and 6+ in every other game.

    NAlAimxg

     

    i agree. more talented RB room, more talented WR room and a more talented TE room. add in a better offensive coordinator/scheme and a better OL and he is set up for success. looking back, Colt McCoy really and truly did a lot with not a lot.

    Man whatever happened to Desean Hales?  I thought he was a certified stud coming out of Klein Oak...

  8. 19 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    It's crazy how unintelligent and noncritical these guys are about what has transpired and what is transpiring. They were begging, BEGGING, for their money guys to get aggressive with the bags. Then, those guys did get aggressive. I mean, they won some bidding wars ahead of last year, such as McKinley Jackson, and they had a tactic that worked with Leal, Robertson, Wright, Demas, JJones and a few others, but last year, they went aaaaallll the way in. The fans on the forums got what they wanted. 

    Now? It was all clean. They're the victim. Everyone else is now apparently "cheating" by using the freshly available above-board approach of NIL with on-campus players that obviously translates to visiting recruits and families, and ATM is the virtuous idiot, standing to the side, tsk-tsking everyone else for ... not breaking any rules and using their competitive advantages where available. 

    It's just fucking bizarre. 

    For the ATM regime as a whole, it looks like someone pointed out to them at some point that FOIA was a problem for claiming any NIL work with the past guys. Inventing NIL programs after the fact is a lot harder than expected.

    So then they sprint out there and claim just good ol'hard work leading to the greatest class of all time without a fucking DC on staff as numerous 4 and 5 stars committed late. That doesn't sit well with guys like Kiffin, Day, and Saban, who know they fucking cheated in bigger ways than they were supposed to in the "handshake agreement" environment of bag game recruiting. So they start talking about it.

    ATM can't handle someone implying they're dishonorable in some way, while they've been brazenly dishonorable, and so Ritz Bitz scampers out and goes nuts on the most respected and powerful entity in CFB at the moment - Darth Saban.

    The fallout from there has been thorough, and the rock and the hard place that the program has put itself in has made staying aggressive with the bags a non-starter and diving into real NIL a game of starting from behind, by multiple laps, and with less major resources on the up and up for the process. 

    Meanwhile, the insecure aggie fans, needing a white knight and a fairy tale, love the little cracker getting after it and love the notion of their program being the lone wolf of righteousness. They think they're William Wallace. They're looking more like George Custer.

    Damn CTJ...this is Pulitzer Prize level stuff.  In less than a 1000 words, you have summed up Aggie's "little man/inferiority complex" with more aplomb than AOC going after her next tweet/photo-op.

    Well done sir, well done.

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