What's your weather like?

[Gismo]

WOW Gis. Turkey! Any particular reason?

Oh yes, Turkey is a great place for golfing trips, usually all inclusive with great courses and weather.
we are staying at the Sueno Golf Hotel, google it, quite nice, but, we stayed at a better place, Cornelia Diamond.
brilliant holiday, so, 12 guys heading out, could be carnage

[YB]

We went to Turkey once, 2009. Met my son there who was over from Australia.

We were in the south of the country, flew into Antalya arport

[4AMNTN]

World travelers! WOW y'all. I've only been off the N. American continent twice. Jamaica (senior trip) and to the Bahamas a few years later. Our honeymoon was in Cancun... very nice. We've driven into Mexico once & into Canada. SCOTLAND is on my bucket list tho! other than that NO desire to leave the good ol US of A.

[Dan M.]

World travelers! WOW y'all. I've only been off the N. American continent twice. Jamaica (senior trip) and to the Bahamas a few years later. Our honeymoon was in Cancun... very nice. We've driven into Mexico once & into Canada. SCOTLAND is on my bucket list tho! other than that NO desire to leave the good ol US of A.

We've been to the Bahamas and Hawaii. That's it. I'd love to explore my UK roots though. My ancestor who moved here was of English parentage, but he was born in Ireland near Galway. I'm also 45% Scot, 5% Irish and 2% Welsh.

[4AMNTN]

Yep... us too. Scottish, Norway, England, Irish -

It's beautiful today, 58 this morning! Already purchased my first mum - my goodness! and pulled out the Fall decorations (they're not up ... yet!)

[YB]

I've never discovered my real roots from a long time ago. How do you do that?

All I know is that my great great Grandad (on my Dad's side) was born in the 1820's in a town about ten miles from where I live now.

I have no real desire to travel long distances now, well half of me would love to visit USA, Australia, New Zealand but the other half of me is horrified at the thought of the flights.

I've probably visited about ten countries during my lifetime, all in Europe, furthest being four and a half hour flight away.

We used to take holidays regularly around Europe, mainly because most other countries seem to have better settled weather from May to September than we do here in England. We can get some spells of some sun and temps in the 80's but we are just as likely to get 50's, wet and windy

[Dan M.]

I've never discovered my real roots from a long time ago. How do you do that?

We've used Ancestry.com, mostly because my wife was adopted and we knew nothing about her biological father's side of the family, and only a little about her bio-mother's side. Now we know a lot, especially about her bio-dad's side. It's pretty much been an all positive experience for us.

[YB]

I've used Ancestry and also Findmypast which is where I have managed to trace my family back 200 or so years
However I have not found anywhere to come up with figures like you quote, Dan, eg
I'm also 45% Scot, 5% Irish and 2% Welsh.

[Dan M.]

I've used Ancestry and also Findmypast which is where I have managed to trace mu family back 200 or so years
However I have not found anywhere to come up with figures like you quote, Dan, eg
I'm also 45% Scot, 5% Irish and 2% Welsh.

Did you submit a DNA test to Ancestry? Hoping your wife improves past the struggling, YB.

[4AMNTN]

IMG_4328-1.jpg YB - I also don't like to fly. And I'm addicted to the Smithsonian channels air disasters at one time I told my mom (the last time that I've flown) if I felt any rumbles, I was gonna run up and down the isles and yell it's the horizontal stabilizer. It's the horizontal stabilizer. -haaaaa
Both of my parents and my two sisters which are four years and two years older than me did the 23 and me and that's the map that I'm about to forward to y'all that little thin green line is Tennessee and that's us and it's green — I didn't feel the need to do mine. Mine should match the four of them I would think. I did do an ancestry search I did that for months and I got back to the 1620s on both my parents side and their parents side. It was interesting. Over here I could actually trace my ancestors through their payments back to the Civil War meaning their war “check”.
I have a few things on my bucket list the main one being going to Scotland, but you know there's a problem it involves flight. Also, I want to do the glass roof train rides through the Canadian Rockies that looks beautiful but again I would have to fly to Seattle and then I think you have to get into Canada somehow and THEN you ride the train , I'd like to see the Iditarod- and again that involves air travel ghee just hang it up, huh?

Dan!!!! Reading of the earthquake this morning, of course on a map that looks kind of close to you. Are y'all good?
Well wishes to ur wife YB
•••• I know not weather related ••••


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[4AMNTN]

Scotland or bust

[Dan M.]

Dan!!!! Reading of the earthquake this morning, of course on a map that looks kind of close to you. Are y'all good?
Well wishes to ur wife YB
•••• I know not weather related ••••

There were two quakes this morning (so far)--a 3.9 and a 3.5 near Ontario, which is roughly 40 miles away. Didn't feel either one of them. Southern California has numerous quakes every week. Most go unnoticed. You have to check the USGS quake pages to see where they were. But thanks for asking. I hear your voice when I read your posts now.

[YB]

I haven't submitted a DNA test, Dan. I didn't know that was how to do it. I'll have a think about it.

It's not that I don't like flying, Fours, in fact in the 80/90's we used to fly twice most years, although never more than 4 to 4 and a half hours. But as we have got older flying doesn't appeal as it did. In fact during the past 20 years we have seen so much in England (plus a few trips to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and RoI) that we didn't know existed. Many people from the UK don't see the wonderful things we have because they don't like the cold and wet weather (potentially) whereas in Spain, Italy etc warm and sunny is almost guaranteed in summer

[4AMNTN]

Dan
That's one of the sweetest things I've heard thank you and I also hear your voice, though it sounds kinda like Wilford BRIMLEY.

YB I think all you do is submit a cheek swab??? i've been seeing on YouTube a lot of people from the UK do vacation in Spain. I had no idea that seems so exotic that & Greece, Italy, France how nice
I always take a Xanax. A half one so just half of a milligram when I fly anywhere -I had no idea that Kevin was white knuckling it because I was always asleep so we've decided maybe not do that anymore. HA!

Dan::: I guess you have the gold star on your drivers license or a passport? I had to renew my license last month and I wanted the gold star and they nitpicked me to death my marriage license, my Social Security, my birth certificate, my old license two proofs of my current address— it was ridiculous. I didn't have my marriage license with me (duh) so I didn't get it. It literally infuriated me.
Just another reason not to fly


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[Dan M.]

Dan::: I guess you have the gold star on your drivers license or a passport? I had to renew my license last month and I wanted the gold star and they nitpicked me to death my marriage license, my Social Security, my birth certificate, my old license two proofs of my current address— it was ridiculous. I didn't have my marriage license with me (duh) so I didn't get it. It literally infuriated me.
Just another reason not to fly

Yes, both of us have the star, although in CA it's a golden bear with a white star in the middle. We were ready with all the documentation when we had to renew (me last year, my wife this year) our licenses. We both have passports, but have only used them to go into Victoria, Canada. We wanted them stamped and they said we don't do that here, here being a little bitty office near the cruise terminal, so our passports still look brand new.

Some day we want to get over to the UK and other parts of Europe, but sunny beaches and warm weather aren't a big draw for us here in southern California.