u/PartyProperty

Hello. I am planning a trip to Sicily with my family this summer. The Italian side of my family is from Castleveteano , and I’d really like to visit the town. Would you recommend staying there or around there?

Lock them in an escape room type situation, and the only way out is to use siri to lock/unlock things, open drawers, etc. Have them do this while they are hungry with a couple kids talking in the background (or ...fuck, just in complete silence.)

Part of the escape involves asking siri to find the hours of a local restaurant on a specific holiday.

punish them. they should be punished.

Anybody know what's up with NYST? I saw on another sub that they changed names, but I can't find how to connect

This happened to me earlier this year, but I thought I’d come back and tell you my story in case it happens to you.

Spoiler alert: I got the bike back about a month later. The cops found it and called me up.

Was rushing around one day and left my bike unlocked directly in front of my house. Of course I was too lazy to lock it up overnight and it was gone in the morning. I had a tracker on it, and it kept pinging from a gas station on Greenpoint Avenue.

Turns out, it was a block away at a construction site. Side note: I’m really surprised the tracker was off by that much because it’s normally fairly accurate. might’ve been because the bike was obscured by a bunch of construction material? Anyway, the cops saw a bike stashed on the construction site, looked up the plate and called me up. Yay.

They said that the thieves a lot of times will take your motorcycle, move it to some push-able location, and then wait a little while in case there is a tracker on it. They want to make sure they can’t be found.

Totally blows my mind why they wouldn’t just rip the seat off and look for the tracker since they went as far as destroying the ignition cylinder. They essentially made the bike totally hotwire-able. In fact, I hotwired it myself to ride it home, but in any case, thieves aren’t the smartest people. I had to replace the entire lock assembly, but hey, I got my bike back.

Just thought I’d share. Of course. Don’t be an idiot like me and leave it unlocked. ever.

It's been a while since I came back from a trip to Mongolia, but as the thought just crossed my mind, thought I'd share, since it's pretty important as we get back into adv season:

-do not eat uncooked veggies when you're roughing it out in Mongolia.

I (with my sensitive stomach) managed to travel for 2 weeks in the steppe and was so glad that I managed to not have any stomach issues...that is until my last day. The night before my trip back to UB, we stayed at the Destiny Hotel (oh how apt) in Kharkhorin and ordered some dumplings from a local restaurant. They came with green salad. Did not give it a second thought and ate everything in front of me.

Woke up with horrendous stomach pain and spent the next several hours purging all the demons. It was so bad that I freaked out and checked myself into the local hospital the next morning. Maybe that was overdoing it, but given that I'd be spending the next several hours headed back to the city on my own, I was ultra cautious.

The very kind hospital staff gave me some IV meds (anti spasmodic and some other stuff), and I recouped in their emergency room. (hospital bill: $60USD - yeah, try that in the US and A.) In the end I'm glad I did because my traveling partners who continued south into the Gobi got hit with the Genghis Mudslide out in the weeds. Poor suckers.

Anyhoo. Pickled veggies - good. Raw - wash em or just stay away.

shiny side up, family.

(First of all, I’m gonna ignore the post right before this one with the dead dogs and pretend I didn’t see it)

Anyhoo, just wondering if any Mongolians have ever been to Nebraska in the US? Strange question I know, but just wondering.

Lots of grass there. Blasting through the MN steppe I got “almost home” vibes.