OnTheJourney

As in...the same stuff you make mint tea from? I had it in a flower bed years ago but it runs like crazy. Roots go out basically horizontally! It crowded everything else out, so then I tried putting it in a huge plastic pot and burying the pot in the ground. It didn't grow well in there, so after that I pretty much gave up on it, but now you're inspiring me to try again! Maybe in a container again. What might have happened is that I dug a huge chunk of it from the bed and put it all in the same pot. Maybe too many roots all in one place all crammed together. I should start from scratch with small plants and see what happens. Love drinking the tea.

LOL....looks like they work well for that purpose actually!

You did really well. I got mine for $75. I think the listed price was $100 so I made an offer on it. Some of them go for quite high - either auction or 'buy it now'. I had told my sister-in-law, who's pinnacle and has loads of these things - that if she ever decides she's tired of using them as doorstops, she can make some money on them!

I can virtually guarantee that they won't send it. I fought the battle and lost (detailed in another thread), being told in no uncertain terms that if it's past a year no go. When we were on the ship we requested it and were told they were out of them and that they'd send it to us. Never happened. Got busy with other things and then simply never thought about it anymore until recently. That was for 140 points. So I bought a clear one on eBay. I must say that I really don't care for the colored. If I get one of those for 210 I'll probably sell it. The one I bought was for the Enchantment. Those are a bit harder to find.

Exactly. We mostly have done RCL and X because of both Baltimore and Bayonne being within 2+ hours driving distance, so most of our cruises have been out of there. Most disappointed, though, that X has changed the CA/NE itineraries to roundtrip Boston instead of Bayonne. I like Viking over both of them and wish they went out of our two local ports. Never sailed out of NY.

Pretty wild. The whole tier / points system always amazed me. Such a gimmick to draw customers in the final analysis. 'I only need TWO more cruises to reach ____ level' ,etc. Great incentive. Even moreso when it applies to a related cruise line such as exists here. We also like cruising with Viking, which doesn't bother with any of that stuff.

Well, I'm not that familiar with what "Royal Caribbean Group" implies and so that's where I'm getting confused. Sounds a bit like splitting hairs but I'm sure there's a significant difference. No big deal. Thanks.

So under the old program, though, what RCL point level did you have to attain to be Elite+ ? Wouldn't the number of required points have wound up in the D+ category anyway? Is it still that cruises done with X don't add any points to RCL though? It should work both ways in the spirit of "reciprocity".

I'm just going by what I read, that X is a wholly owned subsidiary of RCCL.

Sort of ridiculous when you consider it's all the same company.

And the same for reverse? I'm D+, so do any recent changes affect my current X level (honestly without checking I have no idea what that even is - guessing Elite?)

Huh....learn somethin' new every day.

I think that one could use some explanation (?) How does one play a piano while in the elevator?

Not necessarily. Our sailing (both ways) was quite smooth. No rocking and rolling whatsoever, although that was on a much bigger ship than Viking expedition. I was so thankful cause I'd been wanting to go down there for literally decades but always pushed it off for fear of the possibility (or even likelihood) of encountering really bad conditions. Another thing that was amazing was that our weather was much warmer at times than anticipated. In Port Stanley I only had on a sweatshirt. Weather is so unpredictable down there though. We were told that had we tried to call at Port Stanley the day before, we wouldn't have been able to do it. That was all back in '17, so then breathing a sigh of relief from having had that unexpectedly calm - but most welcomed - experience, the Viking Sky episode of '19 came along!!!! More than made up for it I suppose.

$31.41 today. 9% gain on it since I bought it at slightly under $28 beginning of May. See where it goes from here.

Even for your carry-on? How about sticking it in whatever your personal item is that you're taking onboard - purse, camera case, etc. I mean, the blocks are heavy but not all that big. I sure wouldn't leave it behind, cause you won't get a 2nd chance to get it for having attained the 210 points.

air conditioning

Mama bunny does not want to leave a scent that a fox or other predators could follow to the nest, so, yeah, they pretty much don't show up very often. Leave 'em be.

More like into the 21st century since I've never owned a car built after 1997 😁 It's time...

Never heard of it.

Me neither. Never followed the show after maybe watching the first few episodes - which probably goes back quite a few years by now. Also, even though I'm a musician, I have absolutely no interest in shows like "The Voice", "American Idol", and such. Actually can't think of a single tv show I watch at all with any degree of regularity, except for old Star Trek TNG re-runs, Twilight Zone (though I know most of those by memory at this point), Perry Mason (not my thing but DW likes it as well as Carol Burnett). I'd much rather watch stuff on PBS - Nature, Nova, etc. We have one channel that basically features older movies from the 30s to the 80s so often watch those. We don't get cable, so it's all whatever we can pull in on digital TV through our roof antenna (old school here..)

Well, then at least maybe Glenn Curtiss would have had his crack at all the fame! Wright Bros. were ruthless in trying to establish a monopoly on aircraft production. Unable to gain complete dominance, though, the company adapted a legal strategy. It would sue other aviators and firms, including Curtiss, in a bid to collect licensing expenses. Holding the patent meant that no entity could copy the Wrights’ design without their permission and without paying fees. I didn't realize any of this until visiting the Curtiss museum in Hammondsport, NY last month while we were there to hopefully see the eclipse. It was a long drawn-out battle between Curtiss and the Wrights. The family even blamed Curtiss' stubbornness as a cause of Wilbur's illness that led to his death. But, several years later the two companies merged into one corporation. Fascinating story. The museum shows an hour-long film about it.

Man, that's torture.

I suspect a few people at C&A would beg to differ.

OR...we can keep meandering along here till I do a 12-night cruise and see if I get a block for 210 points! 😆