Central Pa. Summer 2024

[Jns2183]

  On 8/14/2024 at 3:35 PM, Atomixwx said:

Is there anywhere you have NOT been? 

There was some guy who managed to get a state job in California than it went totally remote and he lived in Costa Rica for 3 years using his parents mailing address in California to hide it. He just had to fly up for like 4 weeks a year

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[Bubbler86]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:08 PM, Jns2183 said:

There was some guy who managed to get a state job in California than it went totally remote and he lived in Costa Rica for 3 years using his parents mailing address in California to hide it. He just had to fly up for like 4 weeks a year

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Too obscure?

 

 

[Jns2183]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:09 PM, Bubbler86 said:

Too obscure?

 
 

I've seen image before, but yes too obscure for me

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[canderson]

  On 8/14/2024 at 3:43 PM, paweather said:

How about Anchorage? 

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Cool place to jump off into glacier bay and enviros.  I want to go back to Fairbanks but in winter for the northern lights.  

[Bubbler86]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:10 PM, Jns2183 said:

I've seen image before, but yes too obscure for me

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George Constanza wanted to go away for a few days, so he left his car at work under the thought that his bosses thought he was working. He forgot to account for the bird droppings and flyers people were putting on it. 

[paweather]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:10 PM, canderson said:

Cool place to jump off into glacier bay and enviros.  I want to go back to Fairbanks but in winter for the northern lights.  

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I was in Anchorage once. It was a cool city. 

[Jns2183]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:13 PM, Bubbler86 said:

George Constanza wanted to go away for a few days, so he left his car at work under the thought that his bosses thought he was working. He forgot to account for the bird droppings and flyers people were putting on it. 

I always liked the episode where he tried to get fired

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[Itstrainingtime]

Meh - when I was in Fairbanks it was 86 degrees. Same time it was low 80s here. 

Seward is my Alaska place. Snow capped mountains surrounding the city while standing in the Pacific, smelling the salt air. THAT was cool. 

[Itstrainingtime]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:13 PM, paweather said:

I was in Anchorage once. It was a cool city. 

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My parents lived there for several years. After a year or so they were planning their return to PA. Too expensive and too hard mentally/emotionally. It's a very long, very dark winter. 

[Bubbler86]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:18 PM, Itstrainingtime said:

My parents lived there for several years. After a year or so they were planning their return to PA. Too expensive and too hard mentally/emotionally. It's a very long, very dark winter. 

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But the oil money....

[paweather]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:18 PM, Itstrainingtime said:

My parents lived there for several years. After a year or so they were planning their return to PA. Too expensive and too hard mentally/emotionally. It's a very long, very dark winter. 

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It sure is a long and dark winter. I am not sure I could live there as well. 

[canderson]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:16 PM, Itstrainingtime said:

Meh - when I was in Fairbanks it was 86 degrees. Same time it was low 80s here. 

Seward is my Alaska place. Snow capped mountains surrounding the city while standing in the Pacific, smelling the salt air. THAT was cool. 

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It’s all great. Well except Juneau haha 

We’ve been 3 times  (two one way cruises and a land trip to the park) and want to go in winter. 
 

But once you see Norway Alaska looks like the Blue Mountains. It’s crazy. 

[Jns2183]

I'm going to Iceland over Thanksgiving

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[WmsptWx]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:13 PM, Bubbler86 said:

George Constanza wanted to go away for a few days, so he left his car at work under the thought that his bosses thought he was working. He forgot to account for the bird droppings and flyers people were putting on it. 

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That show really did touch on every aspect of the human experience.

[WmsptWx]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:22 PM, canderson said:

But once you see Norway. 

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This dude saying "Once you see Norway" like it's a field trip everyone takes, like going to the local dairy farm.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:10 PM, canderson said:

Cool place to jump off into glacier bay and enviros.  I want to go back to Fairbanks but in winter for the northern lights.  

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Drive up to Talkeetna sometime and take the scenic route through Hatcher Pass, glorious.  Girdwood and Whittier are cool too.  My buddy owns a restaurant in Bethel, AK; now THAT's a place I guarantee none of you have been haha.

[WmsptWx]

Unless Dave Ramsay takes a colossal money shit on me and I am bequeathed with all the corn in Iowa, the only way I'm going to see fucking Norway is on YouTube or in Encyclopedia Britannica.

[WmsptWx]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:31 PM, Mount Joy Snowman said:

My buddy owns a restaurant in Bethel, AK; now THAT's a place I guarantee none of you have been haha.

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I installed the drywall in the new McDonald's in Bethel. 

[Jns2183]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:31 PM, Atomixwx said:

Unless Dave Ramsay takes a colossal money shit on me and I am bequeathed with all the corn in Iowa, the only way I'm going to see fucking Norway is on YouTube or in Encyclopedia Britannica.

Some women get paid a lot of money to be shit on in Dubai

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[WmsptWx]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:36 PM, Jns2183 said:

Some women get paid a lot of money to be shit on in Dubai

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And that's the difference between Dubai and the rest of the Middle East. In Riyadh they take the shit on the woman, then they call her a "whore" and stone her. 

[Itstrainingtime]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:31 PM, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Drive up to Talkeetna sometime and take the scenic route through Hatcher Pass, glorious.  Girdwood and Whittier are cool too.  My buddy owns a restaurant in Bethel, AK; now THAT's a place I guarantee none of you have been haha.

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Talkeetna, yes...Hatcher pass...yes...Girdwood...nope. Never heard of Bethel. LOL

[Jns2183]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:37 PM, Atomixwx said:

And that's the difference between Dubai and the rest of the Middle East. In Riyadh they take the shit on the woman, then they call her a "whore" and stone her. 

Yup, in Dubai you get college paid for

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[WmsptWx]

Nooners in Clearfield: Sunny and 75°F

Current time and weather in Oslo: 6:39 PM, 66°F and rain.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:32 PM, Atomixwx said:

I installed the drywall in the new McDonald's in Bethel. 

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Haha believe it or not there are no chain restaurants of any type in Bethel, which is a big part of the reason my buddy opened up a place there.  The big boys don't want to be bothered with it, given that you can only get there by air or sea and keeping stuff stocked can be a pain.  UnCommon Pizza is the name, check it out.  The original UnCommon opened up in 2007 in Lititz, PA and is still going strong.

 

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:37 PM, Itstrainingtime said:

Talkeetna, yes...Hatcher pass...yes...Girdwood...nope. 

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Well, the only reason I mention Girdwood is because I was taken to some sort of hippie forest festival there one time haha, and also they have the Alyeska ski resort there.  But Whittier, with the one-way railroad tunnel in and out, is a unique little place with some killer views.

[Itstrainingtime]

  On 8/14/2024 at 4:51 PM, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Haha believe it or not there are no chain restaurants of any type in Bethel, which is a big part of the reason my buddy opened up a place there.  The big boys don't want to be bothered with it, given that you can only get there by air or sea and keeping stuff stocked can be a pain.  UnCommon Pizza is the name, check it out.  The original UnCommon opened up in 2007 in Lititz, PA and is still going strong.

 

Well, the only reason I mention Girdwood is because I was taken to some sort of hippie forest festival there one time haha, and also they have the Alyeska ski resort there.  But Whittier, with the one-way railroad tunnel in and out, is a unique little place with some killer views.

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Yes, we really enjoyed Whittier. The entire drive from Anchorage down to Seward was jaw-dropping.

We flew from Seattle into Anchorage and on our shuttle to our hotel I said to my wife "this is sort of underwhelming"...after spending a couple of days in Anchorage we headed south. We were about 15 minutes clear of Anchorage and came to a screeching halt while moose were standing on the road. At that point and forward, there was nothing underwhelming about our trip...

The drive north from Seward to Fairbanks was incredibly long and incredibly inspiring.

[Bubbler86]

12Z Models run down on whether the LSV can get in 1/3 of a heat wave

 

Regm-Yes but just to 90 on Friday

Nam-No

Fv3-No

GFS-No

Icon-No

 

[Mount Joy Snowman]

  On 8/14/2024 at 5:01 PM, Itstrainingtime said:

Yes, we really enjoyed Whittier. The entire drive from Anchorage down to Seward was jaw-dropping.

We flew from Seattle into Anchorage and on our shuttle to our hotel I said to my wife "this is sort of underwhelming"...after spending a couple of days in Anchorage we headed south. We were about 15 minutes clear of Anchorage and came to a screeching halt while moose were standing on the road. At that point and forward, there was nothing underwhelming about our trip...

The drive north from Seward to Fairbanks was incredibly long and incredibly inspiring.

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We were supposed to go to Seward as well while we were out there but the wildfire smoke canceled our day cruise.  Yeah we found Anchorage very underwhelming.  Some of my buddies who've been there many times joke that it's just a larger Altoona haha.  But the rest of Alaska, my goodness.  Breathtaking beauty on an almost unimaginable level, and the vastness/remoteness is hard to comprehend.  It truly is the last frontier.

[Voyager]

Got up to a surprising 86 (85.8) for the high today.

[Voyager]

Getting pounded by a surprise storm that's moving south from Hazleton. 

[Bubbler86]

  On 8/14/2024 at 10:28 PM, Voyager said:

Getting pounded by a surprise storm that's moving south from Hazleton. 

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As some would say, Braggart!  (Kidding!)