Thanks a lot.

It’s primarily about entertainment which always comes first 🙂

Off in a few days in another travel adventure, getting excited!

LMAO @ the AE sign!!!

I find so much encouragement to travel and see the world from your blog. Thank you for not giving up.

I am clicking on the ads. I hope it helps.

And to everyone- from Portland trips guy (I did like your Paris review) to the Saverocity site (I lurk!) to Dia (Love) and to the Hawaiian credit card snark (totally awesome) and to everyone who (whom?) posts- y’all are awesome. I’m a newbie, so please forgive me if I haven’t memorized all of your names yet- but there’s so many wonderful posters here. All of you have inspiried me to think outside the box more than I do; to see another perspective, to challenge my comfort zone in a safe way.

On that note, I’m going to go watch some more hockey. I think I’ve talked way too much this past week. 🙂

Thanks icicle. Your words of wisdom are taken to heart here.

It sounds like I am not going to be able to get a free umbrella from the protesters as it looks they are cleared away for the most part.

I still can’t get over my visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing where I saw a sign on a toilet door “Brought to you by American Express”. WTF! 🙂

What, we’re not doing New Year’s resolutions yet? 🙂

RE: HK- When I saw the China float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade (on TV), I was talking back to it, “Free Hong Kong! Stop killing endangered species! Stop flooding your lands! Free speech!” I love the idea of Chinese culture and history, but the implentation of several details in the ideology and the practice of certain things….just piss me off.

It is thanks to the Chinese practice of cultivating rhino horns that one particular species is literally counting down to extinction. Breaks my heart. Read up on the Javan Rhino. There aren’t many left. Poachers made the species extinct already in Vietnam. And sometimes TBB has more comments on a page than there are Javan Rhinos in the world.

This is more important to our survival as a planet than if Gleff is served edible cookies on a plane.

But George, my HK advice to you is this: have fun, keep a low profile, and don’t protest anything (unless you have the aforementioned umbrella).

@icicle: Looks like the authorities are cleaning it up, I may get to bring an umbrella for FREE 🙂

@jacobv84: Darn it, totally forgot to add FREE in front on the headline!

@smittytabb: I didn’t get to ask the turkeys…We have two every Thanksgiving…so there! 🙂

@Ramsey: Cracker! Hey, nice Avatar again you handsome 😉

Can’t wait to hear about your opinion on what’s going on in HK.