This is how you do that:
I mean, Iām like 10 miles from the birthplace of ketchup greatness. We should have dibs on that kind of stuff.
This is a violation of Dibs!
They even have curry flavored beans.
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Iāll have to look next time I go shopping. I usually just stick with black beans and season to my own liking for tacos & whatnot.
Great source of Potassium! 
A full English breakfast is the dogās bollocks.
Pro tip: a Yorkshire breakfast is an English breakfast, but with bigger portions.
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Thatās because of the Vikings.
Britain really invaded half the world and traded all their spices - just to eat the same unseasoned foods they ate in their WW2 bomb shelters.
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Damn I realize I just made the same joke as you in another thread, but you got me by a good 3 hours
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So a hot take: People who randomly yield the right of way instead of just getting off the x are a menace to safe driving and should have their licenses revoked. It creates a horribly unsafe breakdown in expectations.
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100% agree.
I think British restaurants (especially in London and Bristol) are WAY ahead of American restaurants. Actually Iād say the whole British food scene is very sophisticated and varied, probably more so than anywhere other than Spain, Japan and Denmark.
Mainly due to not having much of a heritage of their own, theyāve assimilated the best from all over the world and ended up with a great foodie culture.
I never really had the ātravel bugā - Iāve been to a few other countries but never really had a passion for it or a dream to ātravel the worldā
I was thinking about this the other day ā¦ I think one reason is no matter where Iāve gone a month or two later I am just left with a vague memory and a huge credit card bill. I probably never really think about the trip again unless I look at photos. Many people describe travel as life changing but I could never relate.
I felt a little jealous I guess. My wife pushes me to travel but if it were up to me weād probably just go to some place in the mountains every once in a while to āunplug from everythingā
I donāt have the best natural sense of direction. GPS is a lifesaver but usually need to drive somewhere a few times to remember the route. I am wondering if the two are connected. Perhaps passing through a foreign city doesnāt really give me enough time to implant a permanent memory of the place and Iām missing that aspect of travel.
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I am the sameā¦how much memory do we really retain of the travels
i am also the type that after a couple days i am ready to be at home
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You need to live there, wherever it is you go, for several months at least to get an actual experience that will leave a lasting impression. I think places like Disneyworld are the biggest scams. They sell this promise of a lifelong memorable experience but if you take kids there when theyāre young, after a few years they donāt remember they even went.
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This is very much my preference too.
Or, as @zecarlo said, Iād want to go somewhere for like 6 mos. Get a job there, make some friends. That would be something.
Marching along a tourist parade route and spending money isnāt my idea of fun.
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Iāve traveled fairly extensively, made it to 5 continents so 5, and fully plan to knock out the other two. Everything from 2 days in Bahrain to 7 weeks in the Sahara on camel back. (Well 5, and two weeks being a total tourist bum in Morocco, but my original phrasing sounds cooler).
I remember a decent amount of the āmust see spotsā but the most impactful were always far away from the main roads. Try to pick up a few words of the local language, learn a bit about the culture, cultivate a tolerance with mildly sketchy situations, and youād be amazed the opportunities. Iāve made dozens of one night life long friends, solved the problems of the world over 3 bottles of wine and forgotten them all with the 4th bottle, laughed until I cried over jokes I never would of understood until then, and legitimately had my view of the world and humanity changed by the thoughts of someone I thought I knew until I actually met them.
The thing, in my opinion anyway, is that most of the places are just that. Itās a place. Lots of places are pretty similar. Buildings fundamentally do the same things. Rivers are still made of water. I donāt think a lot of people get much outside of āplaces.ā (Small exception for narrow minded people who should visit some foreign areas and realize the Hollywood image of, idk 75% of the world, is just painfully inaccurate.) Itās the PEOPLE and culture of an area that I think is so impactful. You realize both the areas of similarities, the reasons for differences of view, and sometimes even the object differences between the cultures.
The pain though is few vacations offer that. Thereās no tour guide to meet locals, no inclusive resort will have you bumming cheap beer with a khat addicted farmer. You kind of need to get lost in the unbeaten path to get that experience. A healthy dose of extroversion is pretty vital there. And some common sense, depending on where you are traveling.
But itās worth it.
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My second older brother did this too. His first move on shore leave was to find a bike, then ride it away from where everybody else was.
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I havenāt been inside a Disney park, but I walked the surrounding area a bit because my daughter had a gymnastics competition nearby. The shocking thing to me was the number of groups that clearly didnāt have any small children. It was easily the majority.
I donāt think those parks are actually for children. They are mostly for adults that want to pretend to be children.
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Disney adults are some of the creepiest people on the planet.
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In a similar vein, my wife and I went to one of those āmidevil timesā places a few months ago, not really knowing much about it but figuring it would be fun.
We had an absolute blast, and then both violently agreed that we could never go again without children haha