CPT Trips

… I just discovered that I spelled dagnabbit wrong.

Dagnabit, you beat me to it. Friend who learned English as an additional language always said the English has more exceptions than it has rules.

Reminds me of the 74&75 Flyers hockey team players home towns.

We’re friendly over here on the river cruise board - https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/115-river-cruising/ DW and I typically tour and dine in same type clothes on our river cruises. Long pants, maybe capris if warm and collared shirt, long or short sleeve depending on the season. Nothing fancy, although she often takes a nice top. We take sturdy walking shoes for touring and comfortable loafers for TSA and aboard ship. Some of the trans Atlantic flights are quite strict on size and weight of carryons, so observe the limits posted on the website.

Looking forward to the Boxing Day football schedule.

And here’s hoping that our host is a DeadHead. By the way, the seller wanted $280 for the shirt.

Remember this? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_advertising

Do you really think that beats (and it isn’t photoshopped)

Our post office address here in NJ. One of my favorite place names in Pennsylvania is King of Prussia.

Speyer?

Most recent Christmas decorations we saw . . . at our hotel in Aswan.

Indeed, it was awesome. Full disclosure, sails were up only for a short time. Although the ship is not motorized, it has a diesel generator on board and is pulled by a tug. 13 crew, four for the “hotel” and nine for the mechanical.

Oops, forgot the ship. o

The Nile is not like the European rivers we cruised. No commercial traffic at all. Dinner al fresco at the site of a small cantina, meal cooked on ship and served by ship’s crew.

Yep, I was having my doubts 😉. Thanks for remembering . . . this is just what I wanted to know. And the ladders were what I was hoping for, I hate the ones with all round metal steps.

In my experience in the ‘70s there was no interaction between the western allies military and East German officials. The only person to person contacts on the US duty train were between the US Train Commander and translator with the Soviet officer on duty and translator to formally process the passengers. An armed MP dismounted the train but had no part in the processing. The MP and Soviet enlisted men might have brief unofficial interactions, swapping Marlboros for various uniform items. That was mostly during colder weather when long overcoats were part of the uniform of the day. Good cover for the trade items😉

We are going, just wit some apprehension . . .

I remember it well. We (US military personnel including their dependents as well as British and French too) were not permitted to ride on trains that passed through those stations so it was just easiest for us to not use those lines. The U-Bahn was run by West Berlin and was almost entirely in the western sectors except for those few ghost stations Berlin’s other rapid transit system operated throughout all of the city and some of the surrounding area in East Germany (DDR). It was operated by the DDR’s Reichs Bahn, even those lines and stations in the west. It was off limits to all the western allies military personnel because we didn’t formally recognize the authority of the DDR. Many West Berliner’s refused to use it as they didn’t want hard currency going to the DDR.

Tru True. But it does happen. I’ve had questions answered by a tech, only got the pharmacist after requesting one.

From a visitor’s perspective, book both a tour and a performance (do that in advance) at the Sydney Opera House! If you plan to snorkel or dive from Cairns, go with one of the smaller boats (100 pax or so) that “anchors” rather than a larger boat or a tour that goes to one of the artificial islands.

We leave for Egypt next month for a 13 day tour. We too were tempted to cancel and frankly I am still apprehensive. It was good to hear your positive experiences! We have be reading similar reports on a private OAT Facebook group. The Nile portion of our trip is on a “yacht It has been on DW’s bucket list “forever.”

Who thought they were Crossing the Delaware?

We were in Christchurch in October (land tour). We took this tour - https://www.kotane.co.nz - and enjoyed it. It’s only about an hour which left plenty of time for lunch at - https://riverside.nz - and then a visit to - https://quakecity.co.nz

No, don’t skip Darwin . . . Can you overnight there, then fly to Bali? We did a snorkel trip out to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns and it was fantastic.