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Another tourist poisioning........this time in Mexico.............same shit different place.........

@SC,

River cruises are wonderful. The vesselss are typically much smaller, different town each day, and you get to really know your shipmates. We have been on three LS river cruises--Rhine, Danube, Seine--and have had a terrific time on each.

Kind of silly ,we have never did a cruise. We have cruises leaving out of Galveston every week. We don’t care to sit behind the wheel for a long time driving. So we normally go to Europe and either use planes , trains or our feet. Nothing wrong with cruises but we are never of the feeling stuck in one place. We have learned how to do this pretty cheap and cover lots of ground. We will be in Europe soon , always do Kings Day .largest festival in Europe . Wife loves flea markets so Holland becomes the largest . From there who knows ,always spend time at Fun4Two and Fata
Morganna’s . Each of the clubs have cottages there for rent. We have lots of friends we have met over the years so sometimes it seems like a family reunion. We feel the culture and the friends we make from this type of vacation for us have been great. The marijuana , yes it will be there but last night in Montgomery Texas at a restaurant bar outside …you could smell it. .I would rather smell weed then go somewhere with a bunch of drunk asses causing problems. .

Someone - "Mayhem, Which do you prefer, for "playing" and "sightseeing"?"

The river cruises, at least in Europe, are more for sightseeing. You may get lucky and find someone to play with, but it didn't seem anywhere near as likely as an all-inclusive or an ocean cruise. If you brought friends to join you on the river cruise, you could have both options.

We looked at the Viking Mississippi River cruise and they seemed pricey compared to the European ones. Plus, I could potentially drive to and along the Mississippi River route where that's obviously not an option without airfare for the European ones.

I will say that when we had to leave the ship due to Covid last year, Viking went over and above to take care of us. It is one of those times where you get what you pay for.

One juvenile gone and now we have a new one.. LOL

R&K......YOU MAY HAave to get beyond small one horse Woodstck to understand just how big the USA is.

Someonec...

Thats what the "Hot Date" section of SLS is for.... for playing...while traveling.

R&k....

I wouldn,t go to those usa cities either ...but in the VAST BIG COUNTRY OF THE GREAT USA, those places are a blip on the screen compared to whats availabe to see out there.......in the USA.

Apolon - "River cruises on small boats are a different animal from the massive big ships..."

I would definitely agree with that. It tends to be an older adult crowd and not a floating amusement park/casino. We find both types of cruises fun, but the river cruises tend to be way more laid back. The Viking ship (boat?) we were on only held a max of 190 passengers.

Viking also tends to include all of the costs in the price, including basic excursions at all of the stops. The large cruise ships advertise their price and leave out the port charges/destination fees and other taxes, which can be substantial in relation to the advertised price of the cruise. This just doesn't sit well with me. It's like they are embarrassed to tell you the actual cost of the cruise.

Headlines:

Atlanta, Detroit, LA, NOLA, Liberty City Miami, Chicago, shall we go on... murders are a way of life in good old USA everyday night and day.. in your Chevrolet too!

Like we said you do you.. we will use common sense everywhere!

FLASH----just saw this on the news...
9 yo kid on vaca w parents in Dominican Republic shot & killed leaving airport on the way to the resort...gang swarmed there van to rob the tourists and killed the kid.........like i said- forget the carribian stuff....way too dangerous.

River cruises on small boats are a different animal from the massive big ships...we did viking in Germany. It was nice and the people were much better...probably because it wasn,t a free-for-all w kids & pools & drugs & kiddie rides that the adults do on the big ships...
We don,t consuder small boat river sifhtseeing cruises bad....

Apolon - "we did a cruise... one and done..10 yrs ago" ...and... "The people on the ship were classless in their attitudes... young & old... arguements, fights, wild attitudes, constant marijuana smell everywhere"

So one cruise and they're all bad? Perhaps we've been lucky. We've been on a few cruises and that was not our experience on any of them. We are doing Viking River cruises in Europe as of late (one last year and one this year) and have had good interactions with the crew, passengers and locals and have felt safe anywhere we went so far.

Perhaps the cruise you went on was a bad one, however, your interactions here tend to be "abrasive". If this is how you normally interact, it's no surprise "Seeing the USA in your Chevrolet" is a better choice for you, because it's limiting your interactions with others compared to a cruise or resort. Luckily, there are a LOT of great places to see in the US.

Our marijuana days are long over....the constant smell. Is quite annoying... and you always get the low lifes who think its just, "so cool" to puff in front of folks....
With reckless disreguard for others...they always smugly act like they are just too cool because they,re smoking marijuana....as if no o e else has ever done it......again , classless folks.

The "constant marijuana smell" could certainly sway me to try a cruise. Please don't let my wife see this.

??????.....what are you analyzing???...or over anylizing???

Cruise ships suck....and we experienced it.

@Apo

You just described american's. The people leaving out of CA to go to Mexico are not Mexican's coming up to CA to go on a boat back to where they live to go back to CA to drive back into Mexico.

I think you still are missing the point of culture. Either that or you just bashed the fuck out of American culture.

Ero.... we did a cruise... one and done..10 yrs ago to Mexican Pacific Rivera out of calif.... 4 stops including Cabo.
The people on the ship were classless in their attitudes... young & old... arguements, fights, wild attitudes, constant marijuana smell everywhere...just made the experience sickining......then of course all the news reels about that kind of behavior on cruises thru the years....we,ll pass.....

R&k...
YES YOU are correct on the song...
But you got the answer from Wicapedia..
The simple and well known answer that those who know from back then , w/o looking it up is:::: .....the Dina Shore Show when she sings the song for their commercial.... Simple.

@APO

I think you are missing things in your 'seeing things' comments.

If I want to look at things, you are damn right, the USA's geography is incredible. In my state, fuck, we have the lowest spot and the highest spot in the 48. We have places as majestic as Yosemite and Lake Tahoe and so beautiful like Carmel and Monterey. But there is beauty throughout the US.

I spent time in Merida, Mexico to go to see the Mayan ruins. Can't see things like that in the US. But this is what you are missing, the other half. The culture. Human culture in other countries is part of the picture. In America, it is pretty much homogenized across the country. There is not much cultural differences. In other countries . . . wow, it is mind opening. In Merida, they have these funny looking concrete chairs that are shaped like an S. It is actually two chairs but they face opposite directions. I asked what they were about because I saw a lot of them. I was told it is where husbands and wives are sent when they are not getting along. It forces them to look at each other and talk. When I spent time in China, the idiot American that I was didn't understand why they eat pretty much anything. When I saw how pigeon was delivered to the table, I started to question it some more. Then a simple conversation . . . I was told, we have 1.5 billion people. We have to eat. We eat anything because we have so many people.

Recently, I have had to go back and forth to Tijuana a lot. That is where my wife's dentist is at. We walk across and are picked up and driven to the dentist office. What I learned was getting into mexico is a 30 second process. Getting into the US is 3 to 4 hour process. I talked to the driver to get a Mexican perspective. His answer . . . no one wants to blow up Mexico. A lot of people want to blow up the US. I wonder why they want to blow up the US. Those are things that you do not learn by staying in one country.

Here we will make it easy for you:

The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright)[1] is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP),[2] written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors.[1] The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy,[1] years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952,[1] and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s, commercials were aired with the song sung by baseball players John Roseboro and Don Drysdale, whose singing careers, announcer Vin Scully said, were "destined to go absolutely nowhere."

Not really we have traveled all over USA and hotel rooms Hiltons / Marriotts , etc have over doubled in price this last year.. a nice cruise, entertainment , a more mature crowd ... we met some great middle aged folks 2 weeks ago. and had some great parties... not the Carnivals out of south Florida with younger crowd who gets drunk , fights etc.. in this day and age are best value for your money.. and YES we travel every 3 months somewhere..

But as usual its ones experience that sets your tone and experiences !

So you do you.. and the rest will do us seeing the world and beyond

Does anyone know where the phrase, " see the usa in your cheverlot" comes from??

This is a test!!...lol

We never really visit anyplace more then twice... usually only once....been there, seen that attitude.....

We don,t do cruises on the big ships... too many low lifes suddenly think they are classy, and the fights and arguements, & immature adults , and bad attitudes really don,t make it for us...

See the USA in your Cheverlot.....fly-drive destinations are sooo interesting to explore... and your USA common sense tells you where you shouldn,t go in towns or citys....

If it has bars on the windows, and too much graffiti,, its " DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!"

So much to see in the USA .....and its the same price as traveling out of the country......

"If you really want to learn more about what the issues are there, look into oil and . . . pomegranate. Look into Stewart and Lynda Resnick."

That was a fun adventure. I prefer Fresno, but actually know Bakersfield pretty well, or did. My father was from the San Joaquin Valley, raced modifieds in Bakersfield when I was a kid, and planned to be buried in the VA cemetery there (my stepmother decided otherwise). Never paid much attention to the Resnicks, but when I looked them up vaguely recalled some of the controversy surrounding the pomegranate product.