Comments for Travel Tripz http://www.traveltripz.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The 5 Best Theme Parks in California by Wanda http://www.traveltripz.com/2012/01/30/the-5-best-theme-parks-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-67434 Wanda Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:20 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=3769#comment-67434 This is so very true. There are times when even the adrenaline junkie like me needs some quiet time to relax between adrenaline pumping rides. So its great to take time out in one of the 3D theaters, take in the sights from one of the cafes or just chill out on a tamer ride. This is so very true. There are times when even the adrenaline junkie like me needs some quiet time to relax between adrenaline pumping rides. So its great to take time out in one of the 3D theaters, take in the sights from one of the cafes or just chill out on a tamer ride.

]]> Comment on The 5 Best Theme Parks in California by Costa Mesa CVB http://www.traveltripz.com/2012/01/30/the-5-best-theme-parks-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-67389 Costa Mesa CVB Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:27 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=3769#comment-67389 The great thing about California's theme parks is that there is something for everyone. If you are an adrenaline junkie there are plenty of roller coasters to keep you happy and if you prefer a gentler ride you won't be left out. The great thing about California’s theme parks is that there is something for everyone. If you are an adrenaline junkie there are plenty of roller coasters to keep you happy and if you prefer a gentler ride you won’t be left out.

]]> Comment on Everything You Need to Know About the Spruce Goose by Wanda http://www.traveltripz.com/2009/10/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-spruce-goose/comment-page-1/#comment-65181 Wanda Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:58:32 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=1985#comment-65181 Thank you so much for sharing this information with our readers, Ryan. Even though I am quite conversant with Howard Hughes life, I found you comment to be an interesting read. I hope one day to get to see the museum. We didn't end up getting there on my trip because it all became logistically challenging. It's a pity the plane has been put in such an out of the way place. My enquiries revealed that it was well over an hour to get there from the airport and none of the local hotels run a shuttle service. Such a shame because I think they could capitalize on promoting this wonderful attraction. Thank you so much for sharing this information with our readers, Ryan. Even though I am quite conversant with Howard Hughes life, I found you comment to be an interesting read. I hope one day to get to see the museum. We didn’t end up getting there on my trip because it all became logistically challenging. It’s a pity the plane has been put in such an out of the way place. My enquiries revealed that it was well over an hour to get there from the airport and none of the local hotels run a shuttle service. Such a shame because I think they could capitalize on promoting this wonderful attraction.

]]> Comment on Everything You Need to Know About the Spruce Goose by Ryan Ranger http://www.traveltripz.com/2009/10/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-spruce-goose/comment-page-1/#comment-65092 Ryan Ranger Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:36:50 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=1985#comment-65092 I'm with you. And it just so happens that I live in Portland Oregon. ONE HOUR away from Hughes Flying Boat. What's funny is that I already knew most of what I read, everything but the fact that it's been sitting but an hours drive from me since I was seven! The problem is I can't find anyone who gives a flying lumber yard about aviation. My first question was "can I go inside?". YOU CAN! HOWEVER, it costs an extra 25 dollars (!) to enter the cockpit. Seeing that I currently have no source of income aside from random labor, I'm going to have to save up and just bite the bullet. Because while the majority of the tourists who go there are either there for the water park linked next to it (no joke. "wings and waves". literally an aviation water park!) or simply to be "a REALLY big plane". For me it's all about sitting in the same seat that Howard Hughes flew it's first and only flight. I would have thought I'd have to go to southern california. But my god, a mere hour away. I just need someone who's interested enough to go with me. I don't think any of my friends no much about Howard Hughes, other than a tortured by ocd (and I believe minor tourettes) guy who flew planes and locked himself in a screening room peeing in jars. It will be hard to bite my tongue as EVERYONE calls it "the spruce goose" (a slanderous term from the mouth of a senator who had a personal vendetta against hughes for not selling TWA to PAN AM for his personal agenda). It's true that Hughes was severely mentally ill. He had MANY film marathons that took place in closed off hotel rooms which he wouldn't step foot out of for months. Not just the one the public found out about. All the while he conducted elaborate meetings and business transactions by phone, which allowed him to keep his company and his empire. Like it is for many of us out there, his illness started from his mother. She bathed him compulsively instilling a severe fear of contamination. Even teaching him to spell out words like q u a r a n t i n e. It's been said that despite Hughes intense dread of germs for lack of a better word, he contracted syphilis at one point. Which caused sores at the ends of his fingers. Which he would scrub viciously. Penicillin was still experimental at the time. But was administered to him after the crash in southern California which left him burned and disfigured. The penicillin would have killed the syphilis. If he truly had it in the first place that is. Doctors throw out the wrong diagnoses all the time as we all know. Hughes was a collector of beautiful women, mostly actresses, a list as long as his achievements. It's said he would send all his women to his personal physician to be checked out first to make sure they were not sick in any way. Most find it rather ironic that while he was terrified of contamination, he would sit in his own filth for months at a time. I think he saw it as being quarantined. Nevertheless. He would go for long periods of time without bathing, shaving or changing clothes... In the end it was the drugs that killed him. He was up to 150 mg (!!!) of Valium along with extremely high doses of pain killers. Which while he needed there is no debate that he self-medicated, in his defense he really was in severe pain. Howard Hughes died at 70, living longer and any intense pain patient known to this day. I personally think the drive to create despite his crippling condition helped his life-span. Somehow he got tied up with Mormons in the end who would blackmail him with his drugs to gain his assets. Basically it was as simple as "sign this or you wont get your drugs". As an addict myself who needs controlled substances to suppress and dampen my own symptoms (not too far from the ones displayed by Hughes which only became increasingly worse) I can tell you that there is no price on sickness. When you are that deep into it for that amount of time with a GENUINE condition, MULTIPLE conditions one becomes willing to sell their soul not to experience a withdrawal that can be so severe it probably would have killed him faster than the drugs. Well, I think I've shared most the information I know about Howard Hughes. I figured if you looked for two hours to find the info this fine fellow posted then you might not mind reading what seems to have turned into a biography more or less. And I could tell you more. About how he bugged and monitored every woman he was involved with. Having them spied on with 24 hour surveillance. I throw that in lastly because it should be know that Howard Hughes needed complete control over everything in his reality. Maybe partially because he lacked control over his mind and needed ways to feel like he was in control. The idea of being lost at sea with no control over anything in this universe can be a terrifying thought when you think about it. Well, that about wraps it up. Many facts and many of my own personal speculations. I hope that if anyone reads this they got something out of it to better understand the very complex Mr. Howard Hughes. My personal inspiration that despite having disadvantages amazing feats can still be accomplished. Something we should all remember.... I’m with you. And it just so happens that I live in Portland Oregon. ONE HOUR away from Hughes Flying Boat. What’s funny is that I already knew most of what I read, everything but the fact that it’s been sitting but an hours drive from me since I was seven!
The problem is I can’t find anyone who gives a flying lumber yard about aviation. My first question was “can I go inside?”. YOU CAN! HOWEVER, it costs an extra 25 dollars (!) to enter the cockpit. Seeing that I currently have no source of income aside from random labor, I’m going to have to save up and just bite the bullet. Because while the majority of the tourists who go there are either there for the water park linked next to it (no joke. “wings and waves”. literally an aviation water park!) or simply to be “a REALLY big plane”. For me it’s all about sitting in the same seat that Howard Hughes flew it’s first and only flight. I would have thought I’d have to go to southern california. But my god, a mere hour away. I just need someone who’s interested enough to go with me. I don’t think any of my friends no much about Howard Hughes, other than a tortured by ocd (and I believe minor tourettes) guy who flew planes and locked himself in a screening room peeing in jars.
It will be hard to bite my tongue as EVERYONE calls it “the spruce goose” (a slanderous term from the mouth of a senator who had a personal vendetta against hughes for not selling TWA to PAN AM for his personal agenda).
It’s true that Hughes was severely mentally ill. He had MANY film marathons that took place in closed off hotel rooms which he wouldn’t step foot out of for months. Not just the one the public found out about. All the while he conducted elaborate meetings and business transactions by phone, which allowed him to keep his company and his empire.
Like it is for many of us out there, his illness started from his mother. She bathed him compulsively instilling a severe fear of contamination. Even teaching him to spell out words like q u a r a n t i n e. It’s been said that despite Hughes intense dread of germs for lack of a better word, he contracted syphilis at one point. Which caused sores at the ends of his fingers. Which he would scrub viciously. Penicillin was still experimental at the time. But was administered to him after the crash in southern California which left him burned and disfigured. The penicillin would have killed the syphilis. If he truly had it in the first place that is. Doctors throw out the wrong diagnoses all the time as we all know.
Hughes was a collector of beautiful women, mostly actresses, a list as long as his achievements. It’s said he would send all his women to his personal physician to be checked out first to make sure they were not sick in any way. Most find it rather ironic that while he was terrified of contamination, he would sit in his own filth for months at a time. I think he saw it as being quarantined. Nevertheless. He would go for long periods of time without bathing, shaving or changing clothes… In the end it was the drugs that killed him. He was up to 150 mg (!!!) of Valium along with extremely high doses of pain killers. Which while he needed there is no debate that he self-medicated, in his defense he really was in severe pain.
Howard Hughes died at 70, living longer and any intense pain patient known to this day. I personally think the drive to create despite his crippling condition helped his life-span. Somehow he got tied up with Mormons in the end who would blackmail him with his drugs to gain his assets. Basically it was as simple as “sign this or you wont get your drugs”. As an addict myself who needs controlled substances to suppress and dampen my own symptoms (not too far from the ones displayed by Hughes which only became increasingly worse) I can tell you that there is no price on sickness. When you are that deep into it for that amount of time with a GENUINE condition, MULTIPLE conditions one becomes willing to sell their soul not to experience a withdrawal that can be so severe it probably would have killed him faster than the drugs.
Well, I think I’ve shared most the information I know about Howard Hughes. I figured if you looked for two hours to find the info this fine fellow posted then you might not mind reading what seems to have turned into a biography more or less. And I could tell you more. About how he bugged and monitored every woman he was involved with. Having them spied on with 24 hour surveillance. I throw that in lastly because it should be know that Howard Hughes needed complete control over everything in his reality. Maybe partially because he lacked control over his mind and needed ways to feel like he was in control. The idea of being lost at sea with no control over anything in this universe can be a terrifying thought when you think about it.
Well, that about wraps it up. Many facts and many of my own personal speculations. I hope that if anyone reads this they got something out of it to better understand the very complex Mr. Howard Hughes. My personal inspiration that despite having disadvantages amazing feats can still be accomplished. Something we should all remember….

]]> Comment on Magical Madrid – The Highlights of Spain’s Capital City by Wanda http://www.traveltripz.com/2011/12/21/magical-madrid-the-highlights-of-spains-capital-city/comment-page-1/#comment-64904 Wanda Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:07:22 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=3662#comment-64904 Glad that the information was helpful. Have a fantastic time on your next trip. Glad that the information was helpful. Have a fantastic time on your next trip.

]]> Comment on Magical Madrid – The Highlights of Spain’s Capital City by Jeanette http://www.traveltripz.com/2011/12/21/magical-madrid-the-highlights-of-spains-capital-city/comment-page-1/#comment-64823 Jeanette Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:14:04 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=3662#comment-64823 This is great, we are travelling here in July this year so this was great to read. Thanks Wanda and Paula Jeanette This is great, we are travelling here in July this year so this was great to read.
Thanks Wanda and Paula

Jeanette

]]> Comment on Experience the Beauty of Crete the Island of the Minotaur – All about Crete by vagelis http://www.traveltripz.com/2009/09/21/experience-the-beauty-of-crete-the-island-of-the-minotaur/comment-page-1/#comment-35548 vagelis Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:31:11 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=1929#comment-35548 I have been in Crete the previous 2 years . I will certainly go again summer 2010 . If you travel to Greece don't miss Crete . I have been in Crete the previous 2 years . I will certainly go again summer 2010 . If you travel to Greece don’t miss Crete .

]]> Comment on Review: Paris Hotel and Casino Las Vegas by Las Vegas Hotels Rock http://www.traveltripz.com/2009/08/24/review-paris-hotel-and-casino-las-vegas/comment-page-1/#comment-24303 Las Vegas Hotels Rock Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:15:05 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=2507#comment-24303 The Paris Hotel in Las Vegas is one of the nicest hotels in the area. The hotel rooms are very luxurious and there are many great restaurants. The ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower is one of the best entertainment values in Las Vegas! The Paris Hotel in Las Vegas is one of the nicest hotels in the area. The hotel rooms are very luxurious and there are many great restaurants. The ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower is one of the best entertainment values in Las Vegas!

]]> Comment on Hotel Review: Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino – Palace Tower Deluxe Room by Brock Hileman http://www.traveltripz.com/2008/03/06/hotel-review-caesars-palace-hotel-casino-palace-tower-deluxe-room/comment-page-1/#comment-22241 Brock Hileman Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:31:40 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/2008/03/12/hotel-review-caesars-palace-hotel-casino-palace-tower-deluxe-room/#comment-22241 Buyer beware when booking travel plans through Expedia.com, they just took me for $1096.00. Here is how the monster sets it trap; early last winter I planned a family vacation that entailed flying to Tuscon to rent a car and drive southwest to beautiful San Carlos Mexico. In an effort to keep the travel expenses to a minimum the flight was booked months in advance. Of course as the day of departure approached news of violence in the Mexican border towns filled the media. It just didn't seem practical to put my wife and daughter in possible harm's way for a vacation, so we changed our destination to Florida. This was still weeks before our scheduled departure to Tuscon. We knew there would be expenses involved in changing our flight plans but we weren't ready for phase 1 of the Expedia.com monster trap. After hearing all about their terms of service and how there was nothing they could do because United Airlines was the real culprit, the cheapest fair they offered was FOUR TIMES the cost of booking new tickets through United Airlines. So we booked the tickets ourselves directly through United Airlines. Expedia.com explained that we now had a credit with them but it had to be used within the year. So now I was setup for phase 2 of the Expedia.com plan to steal. As the deadline for our credit with Expedia.com came closer my family again decided to travel to Florida. A major part of the decision was based on having the travel expenses somewhat mitigated by the credit with Expedia.com. What a mistake, here is how it worked out; for us to buy brand new tickets for my wife, daughter and I from Southwest Airlines directly (without Expedia involvement) cost right at $1000.00. To utilize my credit with Expedia.com I would have had to pony up an extra $2600.00. That is above the $1096.00 credit! So that's how Expedia.com stole from me. I gave them $1096.00 in good faith but because of the deteriorating climate in Mexican border towns I felt it was absolutely prudent to change our plans. The dark and monstrous side of Expedia.com sits and waits for victims who need to make a change and when found it pounces without mercy. All the solutions they offered were at FOUR TIMES the fair market value for airline tickets. I gave Expedia.com $1096.00 and received nothing in return, legal or not in my opinion that is at best a very poor way to conduct business and at worst downright theft. Beware of the Expedia.com monster, it's heart is filled with greed and it is patiently waiting to lure you into its trap. Buyer beware when booking travel plans through Expedia.com, they just took me for $1096.00. Here is how the monster sets it trap; early last winter I planned a family vacation that entailed flying to Tuscon to rent a car and drive southwest to beautiful San Carlos Mexico. In an effort to keep the travel expenses to a minimum the flight was booked months in advance. Of course as the day of departure approached news of violence in the Mexican border towns filled the media. It just didn’t seem practical to put my wife and daughter in possible harm’s way for a vacation, so we changed our destination to Florida. This was still weeks before our scheduled departure to Tuscon. We knew there would be expenses involved in changing our flight plans but we weren’t ready for phase 1 of the Expedia.com monster trap. After hearing all about their terms of service and how there was nothing they could do because United Airlines was the real culprit, the cheapest fair they offered was FOUR TIMES the cost of booking new tickets through United Airlines. So we booked the tickets ourselves directly through United Airlines. Expedia.com explained that we now had a credit with them but it had to be used within the year. So now I was setup for phase 2 of the Expedia.com plan to steal. As the deadline for our credit with Expedia.com came closer my family again decided to travel to Florida. A major part of the decision was based on having the travel expenses somewhat mitigated by the credit with Expedia.com. What a mistake, here is how it worked out; for us to buy brand new tickets for my wife, daughter and I from Southwest Airlines directly (without Expedia involvement) cost right at $1000.00. To utilize my credit with Expedia.com I would have had to pony up an extra $2600.00. That is above the $1096.00 credit! So that’s how Expedia.com stole from me. I gave them $1096.00 in good faith but because of the deteriorating climate in Mexican border towns I felt it was absolutely prudent to change our plans. The dark and monstrous side of Expedia.com sits and waits for victims who need to make a change and when found it pounces without mercy. All the solutions they offered were at FOUR TIMES the fair market value for airline tickets. I gave Expedia.com $1096.00 and received nothing in return, legal or not in my opinion that is at best a very poor way to conduct business and at worst downright theft. Beware of the Expedia.com monster, it’s heart is filled with greed and it is patiently waiting to lure you into its trap.

]]> Comment on A Day Tour into the Bavarian Alpine Region of Germany – A Personal Account by Laura http://www.traveltripz.com/2010/05/27/day-tour-into-the-bavarian-alpine-region-of-germany/comment-page-1/#comment-19064 Laura Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:05:38 +0000 http://www.traveltripz.com/?p=3002#comment-19064 nice.. nice..

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