SkyHog
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Everything Offends Me
This past weekend started out bleak. My wife and I were supposed to fly down to Orlando for a weekend of fun and sun. Unfortunately, the weather just flat out sucked on Friday. We didn't want to drive down, and we didn't want to wait another day, so we decided to scrap the trip and find an alternate plan.
But, it was a difficult decision. To the north, weather was better, so we considered ducking out through some fairly bad weather, picking our way around it until we got to Richmond, VA, and then we'd be find from there, and we could go to Atlantic City. But the ducking out part didn't look too promising, and I don't like leaving perfectly good ground to go into unstable air and potential badness (I've been there, do wan't to do it again).
So instead, we completely scrapped and decided to drive to Cherokee, NC, for some gambling and some fun. While enroute, my wife told me she wants me to get my Instrument Rating, because we would have been ok to go if I had it (freezing levels were 8000 and higher and there were no thunderstorms along our route....dammit). That's a good thing, and she's fully supporting me spending the money on getting it. Yeehaw.
Well, Cherokee sucks. I don't recommend it to anyone unless you want to deal with a really crappy casino, a ghetto feeling and a lot of run down restaurants and hotels. I felt like I was back in Albuquerque again. We stayed the night, and the next day, decided to drive down to Atlanta, to check out Six Flags over Georgia. That was a freaking blast. I have not had that much fun in a while.
The next morning, we decided to drive over to Charlotte, NC and check out Carowinds, to see which theme park was better. At first, I was not too impressed with Carowinds, but that was because we picked the wrong rides. All told, I think Carowinds has some better rides....and I actually threw up after one of them (which never happens to me).
Tomorrow morning, we're going to fly....to First Flight at Kill Devil Hills. It'll be my wife's first time up in GA since we've moved to North Carolina.
I don't think I could have asked for a better no-go decision. The weekend turned out great, and aside from Cherokee, NC, at no point did either of us get mopey about what happened since we had to cancel. Usually, when I side with no-go, I wind up having a lame weekend where I was just wishing I was at our destination.
I think this might be the secret: When you can't go, make it more fun than it would have been.
Oh, and now I need to get my IR.
But, it was a difficult decision. To the north, weather was better, so we considered ducking out through some fairly bad weather, picking our way around it until we got to Richmond, VA, and then we'd be find from there, and we could go to Atlantic City. But the ducking out part didn't look too promising, and I don't like leaving perfectly good ground to go into unstable air and potential badness (I've been there, do wan't to do it again).
So instead, we completely scrapped and decided to drive to Cherokee, NC, for some gambling and some fun. While enroute, my wife told me she wants me to get my Instrument Rating, because we would have been ok to go if I had it (freezing levels were 8000 and higher and there were no thunderstorms along our route....dammit). That's a good thing, and she's fully supporting me spending the money on getting it. Yeehaw.
Well, Cherokee sucks. I don't recommend it to anyone unless you want to deal with a really crappy casino, a ghetto feeling and a lot of run down restaurants and hotels. I felt like I was back in Albuquerque again. We stayed the night, and the next day, decided to drive down to Atlanta, to check out Six Flags over Georgia. That was a freaking blast. I have not had that much fun in a while.
The next morning, we decided to drive over to Charlotte, NC and check out Carowinds, to see which theme park was better. At first, I was not too impressed with Carowinds, but that was because we picked the wrong rides. All told, I think Carowinds has some better rides....and I actually threw up after one of them (which never happens to me).
Tomorrow morning, we're going to fly....to First Flight at Kill Devil Hills. It'll be my wife's first time up in GA since we've moved to North Carolina.
I don't think I could have asked for a better no-go decision. The weekend turned out great, and aside from Cherokee, NC, at no point did either of us get mopey about what happened since we had to cancel. Usually, when I side with no-go, I wind up having a lame weekend where I was just wishing I was at our destination.
I think this might be the secret: When you can't go, make it more fun than it would have been.
Oh, and now I need to get my IR.
