I’ll take one of the knockoffs that are about ½ the price of the Yeti/Stanley brands. Though please make it have a good quality lid; one that won’t get water everywhere if it falls on it’s side; that also means a slide top, no straw.
Planes are dehydrating enough so I usually go with non-alcoholic drinks.
Do they still even make ticker tape? What will be coming out the windows in the Canyon of Heroes? It’s my intent to find out first hand in 1½ weeks
Water bottles - we have a couple of Chilly’s bottles, which fit nicely into our respective backpacks. They weren’t terribly expensive at the time of purchase (the ones on the website now are about twice what I paid for mine).
If I’m on a long overseas flight, it’s going to be on Air France, so my meal choices will be a lot better than postulated. In any case, no matter how hungry I am, if the meal choices repel me I have no problem going hungry for however long the flight is. My Personal Modular Food Containment Unit will keep me going (likely for months.)
I haven’t generally heard it used to include water; or even juice, if it’s plain juice. To me it means some sort of soda.
But if I’ve got to eat sad lump of chicken breast with almost certainly reconstituted powdered potatoes and tasteless overcooked veggies, I’m going to want some alcohol. And the dish had better be the chicken, because I can’t eat some pasta, and I wouldn’t know till I’d tried it (it’s a texture issue.)
We’re either witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship or a burgeoning stalking that will end in restraining orders and murder. Hard to say which…
My father had a deep love of baseball. I grew up hearing stories of his youth. When The Sandlot came up it felt like a documentary. Into adulthood many of his stories revolved around baseball. And then the Dodgers crushed his heart and moved out of Brooklyn. It’s not an exaggeration to say he was never as happy again. He would take us to Yankees and Mets games when his company offered tickets but he never really got into it. He never had a team to root for again.
I’m currently driving a Prius. Toyota says to change the oil every 10,000 miles. Because I slow down using the regenerative brakes, I’m still on my original brake pads at almost 85,000 miles.
I change the oil at whatever schedule the manufacturer recommends. That’s been different with different cars.
I used to rotate the tires when the mechanic told me to. He retired. I should probably think about that. I don’t drive that much, so some amount of time probably makes more sense than anything based on miles.
My car tells me when it wants an oil change. There is a sensor somewhere in the bowels of the engine that tests the oil and lets me know how much life is left - when it gets to 10% a light comes on. It’s usually in the 5000-7500 mile range. Tire rotations at 5000 miles per tire shop, again an alert appears, but I have to set how many miles I want before the next rotation.