TFK International Business Travel Thread

[Batigol]

Up by the piers and the bay in San Francisco is nice

[iron_mike]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Chicago is a bit meh. Like an emptier New York.

San Francisco is worth a trip and worth seeing. I think.

I wouldn’t be too impressed with San Francisco. Thought the people were very plastic and very egotistical

[Tierneevin1979]

Northern California is well worth a visit, best months along the coast are AprilMay and Sept Oct. I wouldn’t spend more than a few days in SF but there’s lots to see north and south of it.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

I’ve never been to Chicago or San Fran. Should I not be going out of my way to go?

Been to San Francisco a few times. I like it. I’ll go again soon. The homeless situation there is appalling though.

[Anniepower]

You can get all four seasons in one day in Chicago.

[Fran]

Jesus

That’s horrific

[fistoffury]

Really liked Chicago, Milwaukee is also about an hour and a half north and is a great place to visit.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Anniepower

You can get all four seasons in one day in Chicago.

You can get that in Clonmel.

[Barname]

@Fagan_ODowd

There’s a vast swathe there in the middle that I’d have no interest whatsoever in visiting

the places you think are not interesting have the most interesting people

[mickee321]

there is some ferocious open countryside in the NW of the US
East of the Oregon cascades , along the Colombia River gorge thru Oregon and on into Montana is something else…
fucking hell… id say its probably one of the most beautiful places ive been

Lake Macdonald, Northern Montana…that’s the place

[Fagan_ODowd]

@mickee321

there is some ferocious open countryside in the NW of the US
East of the Oregon cascades , along the Colombia River gorge thru Oregon and on into Montana is something else…
fucking hell… id say its probably one of the most beautiful places ive been

Lake Macdonald, Northern Montana…that’s the place

I have a lifelong desire to visit Montana.

[Tim_Riggins]

The Empire Builder train is a meant to be a good way to do it.

[ironmoth]

@mickee321

Cairo is the dirtiest and most filthy place ive ever been to

@mickee321

never been to India thank God

Cairo is filthy, but not a patch on India. Travel further south in Egypt and it can be a very rewarding trip. The people are the salt of the earth.

[ironmoth]

@Fagan_ODowd

In fairness how many US cities are worth visiting and aren’t some cookie cutter job with smaller skyscrapers? Boston, NY, Washington, Savannah, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego and Chicago. At a push. There’s a vast swathe there in the middle that I’d have no interest whatsoever in visiting

How many cities are worth visiting anywhere in the world? Cities are, by and large, vile shit holes. For tourists straying into parts of Dublin they must think they’ve landed in a third world country. A couple of hundred metres from O’Connell St. you have people shooting up in doorways and alleys, and more walking around huffing aerosol canisters.

It’s the wide expanses in the middle of America that would have the biggest attraction for me. New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming. I could happily spend the rest of my life in Silver City, dipping in and out of Gila National Forest.

[flattythehurdler]

Airports are the same hellholes they were before the pandemic. I get the business travel bit as a break from actually doing any work, but flying is generally a hateful way to spend a day. Even if you’re in business class or first, you’re effectively strapped to a gurney for hours on end (albeit drinking)

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Watching three movies in a row ating Pringles and drinking red wine

[Tassotti]

your lips and eye balls getting dry as fuck

[flattythehurdler]

Getting off somewhere hot and it three in the morning in your head, and you’ve to negotiate immigration, taxi, hotel etc with jetlag and half a hangover.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The worst bit was arriving in a really nice hotel about 11.30pm and seeing all the nice things you could do and eat and drink and not be able to do any of it as you are checking out again at 6.30am.

Near the end I’d fly back and forward between cities in the US rather than change hotels constantly.

Changing hotels every day for a week would break a man.

I also remember flying from LA (30 degrees) and landing at 7am in NY (minus 25 degrees) at end of February once. I was fit to cry.

[flattythehurdler]

I travelled from phoenix to Boston once when a student. Did the red eye. Left phoenix at 8pm local time and changed plane three times. Took 14 hours and then had to get the shuttle to Portland. Grim night.