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    Any Suggestions For Domestic Vacation Destinations?

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    59 minutes ago, Augie said:

     

    They went to Kauai and Maui and had a GREAT time. 

     

    Even two plus decades ago I found that I preferred Sonoma to Napa for some reason. We would have benefited from better local knowledge I’m sure, but it was a FANTASTIC trip. We started in San Francisco and then went south seeing Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, Pebble Beach and all that. We went up to a spa in Calistoga (north of Napa and Sonoma I think) and did the whole wine country thing. Probably my second favorite vacation after Spain and a Windstar cruise form Barcelona to Lisbon. Only about 300 passengers on a ship with masts, not one of the HUGE ships with 4-5k. It was another Windstar cruise we were hoping to take (Italy and Croatia) the next year, but……Covid stuff happened. You might have seen it in the news. 

    We love Sonoma, and Calistoga is my second favorite small town on earth! A pretty good quarterback with the last name of Montana lives in Calistoga. 

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    Any Suggestions For Domestic Vacation Destinations?

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    5 minutes ago, Augie said:

     

    Not really a gambler, but the wife will play some blackjack. Having said that, I’ve never been to Vegas without having a good time. There is SO MUCH more to do than gamble. Really, @plenzmd1, it’s true! 

    I second that. My wife and I walked through many casino's, didn't even think to gamble. The food choices and quality was amazing! Walking on the strip with almost no one there was surreal. And the gondola ride in the Venetian was so memorable.

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    Any Suggestions For Domestic Vacation Destinations?

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    My wife and I did a 3000 mile, 3 state driving tour this past January. Flew into Reno, stayed in Lake Tahoe, Lone Pine, California (where westerns in the early days of film were made), drove through Death Valley, stayed in Vegas, Sedona and Phoenix, AZ, stayed in a little town called Solvang, CA which is the Dutch capital of the world, and then to the Bay Area of California to visit my daughter. Out of all these places Sedona was by far our favorite. That would be my recommendation. 

     

    This year we are going to be buying a house so a trip may not happen. But if it does, we are going to Laurel, Mississippi as we see that town on the HGTV Show Home Town, and are super intrigued by it. Many of the home renovations on the show are available as AirBnB's. 

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    Your 2 Bills Drive name

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    My name dates back to 1996. I was a regular on a Hercules, The Legendary Journeys messageboard. (Don't judge.) A girl I was dating called me her knight in shining armor. A character on Xena was named Draco, so they dubbed me SirDraco, and it stuck. When that board folded, my Rush board started at the same time, was SirDraco. One day the members were pissing me off, so I changed it to Draconator to "take care of business". I joined TBD around that time and just went with that. 

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    James Webb Space Telescope And The Search For Our Distant Past

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    On 12/13/2021 at 1:53 PM, WhoTom said:

     

     

     

    Every time you watch a Bills game on TV, you're experiencing the same thing on a smaller scale. It takes time for the cameras to convert the light to electricity, time to convert that signal to radio waves (or digitize it), time for the waves to reach the satellite and back (or your antenna) or for the digital signal to stream and reach your modem/router, etc.

     

    So when you watch the Bills on TV in "real-time," there's a lag. In effect, you're seeing what happened a few seconds ago and, therefore, looking back in time.

     

    Or if you're streaming, the TV is about 20 to 30 seconds behind my computer, so I have to turn the game off on my computer, because I'll yell "Touchdown" and my wife watching on the TV will be like "They haven't even broke out of the huddle! Shut up!"

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    All of us must totally support the guys, this is THE WEEK, this is THE GAME !

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    15 hours ago, Italian Bills said:

    Thank you… what you said got my skin. Hope your wife didn’t get mad at you 😃

     

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    20 hours ago, Italian Bills said:

    Hello my beloved Bills fellas... i'm from Italy ok, but i'm so sick in love with this holy Franchise, with  this colors, since 1989... my first time there was exactly because i wanted to be in OP, inside the Rich Stadium, kissed the ground outside the gates. I cound't believe i was there, it was a dream.

     

    This week will be way loooong ... and day after day the fever will heat up very quickly. I can't wait anymore... and it's only tusday. I've been hard with the team, with the coaches, with the players many times this season... after our losses...  i've been mad at them like many of you... weeks after every loss passed in pain. 

     

    But now i made a promise: whatever will happen sunday, i won't stop to support them, i won't be cursing, i'll wear my colors with proud, i will have their back. 

     

    The love i feel for this Team is too high... and i'm asking you to do the same, during the game don't write anything negative on the Team and the Coaches-Players, even though they will make mistakes. 

     

    They are "our" guys... THIS IS OUR TEAM TO ROOT FOR ! NO MATTER WHAT !!!     

    What post are you going to do when the Bills reach the Superbowl? Our collective minds may not be able to handle it.

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