Sunny you aight with me, do your thing!
awe and sympathy for you road players!
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You are making a good case that you are posting as her. Did you ever consider that her posting style DOES offend a lot of people??? You are right, people just don't get getting talked down to. We feel insulted because it is insulting.
And, for the record, I never said I was great. At pool, or anything else. And, I surely am not perfect. So, I don't agree with you, yet again. Maybe some day you might get it right, but I won't hold my breath for that day. But, since you feel you must red rep people just because you don't agree with them, then I don't want you to feel left out. So you can have one that you earned.
geeez i barely got a billion now. you dont know how much that hurts me.
lol lol lol lol lmao lmao lmao lmao.
once again you must be right ! you think i am sunny , very good thinking.
not !
That's how it was in the old days............
Hi there,
The GPS has made this mossion bearable. When you go to a town you just enter every poolhall in town with the address in your GPS. It takes you there like a giuded missle.
It was real tough back in the old days though pre GPS.
Hi there,
The GPS has made this mossion bearable. When you go to a town you just enter every poolhall in town with the address in your GPS. It takes you there like a giuded missle.
It was real tough back in the old days though pre GPS.
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Shoebat
a different angle
C'mon, guys- try to be nice to each other. It's only a short life we've got on this planet and bickering and spittling doesn't make it any happier or longer.
Let's try this.
What items do you always bring on a road trip? What tips can you share? Finally, do you have any travel rituals?
(Pretend you’re going, at the very least, for over a week.)
Items
--Portable Navigation device, if your car doesn’t already have one. This is essential.
--Iron (clothes)
--Extra, extra socks (changing into new socks can boost you up and refresh your game between late night matches)
--plastic bags, different sizes
--bottle for water
--bowl/mug and spoon, fork, knife
--dried items: freeze dried coffee/ packets of instant oatmeal/ hot cocoa/ cup of noodles… sounds awful but you may very well end up with an empty stomach and no time, a broken down car, or an empty wallet
--Fresh Fruit, Energy bars, bag of dried cranberries (awesome in cereal and yogurt)
--big bag of pretzels
--flip flops
Tips
--Pack one small bag (backpack) and keep all of your necessities for one night in it: a clean change of clothes, pj’s, shampoo, toothbrush, phone charger, any medicines, etc., in it. This way if you’re driving really long hours, you only need to carry your cue and this one bag into the “I’m just stopping long enough to sleep” motel.... This is also your carry- on for the plane, so that when they lose your luggage, you’ve at least got everything for a shower and the clothes to wear while you shop for replacements and wait for your bags to be found.
--Dirty laundry should go into at least one large plastic bag in the trunk of the car. Less carrying around as you travel, no making clean clothes dirty, and easier laundry later (especially if you do a bag for colors and one for whites)
--No fridge? Plug up the bathroom sink and fill with two ice buckets. Wrap any food in the airtight plastic bags you brought, and bury them in the ice. That ice gives you at least until the next meal time.
--Electric teapot or one of those single- mug water heaters (for the dried items above). Mine is single- mug and plugs into the car lighter, which honestly is not the most convenient.
--Too many poolrooms are closing down without even a whisper. Or they have strange days and hours. Call and ask questions before you head over.
--The days of rolling into town, finding a payphone, and ripping out the Billiards pages from the yellow book are over. If you send a text to "google" with billiards, city, and state, they will text you back a list of entries with addresses and phone numbers. Text "more" as a reply, and you'll get a second list of hits in a slightly wider geographical range. Yay.
Rituals
--A friend of mine would always clean his cues, shaft to butt, and perfect his tip the night before a big tournament or match. I suspect it was a ritualistic way to get his head straight. He’d also stain the hotel washrag a permanent blue this way. (so thoughtful).
--My only ritual is Starbucks- for coffee and fresh salads and fruit cups. But I like the idea of having rituals.
Just about everything above was learned the hard way. Please share your Items, Tips, and Rituals and save a fellow AZBer some hardship.
C'mon, guys- try to be nice to each other. It's only a short life we've got on this planet and bickering and spittling doesn't make it any happier or longer.
Let's try this.
What items do you always bring on a road trip? What tips can you share? Finally, do you have any travel rituals?
(Pretend you’re going, at the very least, for over a week.)
Items
--Portable Navigation device, if your car doesn’t already have one. This is essential.
--Iron (clothes)
--Extra, extra socks (changing into new socks can boost you up and refresh your game between late night matches)
--plastic bags, different sizes
--bottle for water
--bowl/mug and spoon, fork, knife
--dried items: freeze dried coffee/ packets of instant oatmeal/ hot cocoa/ cup of noodles… sounds awful but you may very well end up with an empty stomach and no time, a broken down car, or an empty wallet
--Fresh Fruit, Energy bars, bag of dried cranberries (awesome in cereal and yogurt)
--big bag of pretzels
--flip flops
Tips
--Pack one small bag (backpack) and keep all of your necessities for one night in it: a clean change of clothes, pj’s, shampoo, toothbrush, phone charger, any medicines, etc., in it. This way if you’re driving really long hours, you only need to carry your cue and this one bag into the “I’m just stopping long enough to sleep” motel.... This is also your carry- on for the plane, so that when they lose your luggage, you’ve at least got everything for a shower and the clothes to wear while you shop for replacements and wait for your bags to be found.
--Dirty laundry should go into at least one large plastic bag in the trunk of the car. Less carrying around as you travel, no making clean clothes dirty, and easier laundry later (especially if you do a bag for colors and one for whites)
--No fridge? Plug up the bathroom sink and fill with two ice buckets. Wrap any food in the airtight plastic bags you brought, and bury them in the ice. That ice gives you at least until the next meal time.
--Electric teapot or one of those single- mug water heaters (for the dried items above). Mine is single- mug and plugs into the car lighter, which honestly is not the most convenient.
--Too many poolrooms are closing down without even a whisper. Or they have strange days and hours. Call and ask questions before you head over.
--The days of rolling into town, finding a payphone, and ripping out the Billiards pages from the yellow book are over. If you send a text to "google" with billiards, city, and state, they will text you back a list of entries with addresses and phone numbers. Text "more" as a reply, and you'll get a second list of hits in a slightly wider geographical range. Yay.
Rituals
--A friend of mine would always clean his cues, shaft to butt, and perfect his tip the night before a big tournament or match. I suspect it was a ritualistic way to get his head straight. He’d also stain the hotel washrag a permanent blue this way. (so thoughtful).
--My only ritual is Starbucks- for coffee and fresh salads and fruit cups. But I like the idea of having rituals.
Just about everything above was learned the hard way. Please share your Items, Tips, and Rituals and save a fellow AZBer some hardship.
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Sunnyone
Sunnyone is a friend of pool. You can just take my word for that.
Please cut Sunnyone some slack, at least until she has a chance to master the HAMB system. (She's working on it).
Sunnyone writes and thinks differently than some of us.
Some of us enjoy her wit and writing style and hope that she will be around for a long time to come.
JoeyA
Sunnyone is a friend of pool. You can just take my word for that.
Please cut Sunnyone some slack, at least until she has a chance to master the HAMB system. (She's working on it).
Sunnyone writes and thinks differently than some of us.
Some of us enjoy her wit and writing style and hope that she will be around for a long time to come.
JoeyA
thats what i'm saying....2 days for 4-500miles? Snail sh*t covers ground faster than that and its about as straight as the crow flies lol.
take 71 i believe jump straight through joplin, fayetteville, jump on I40 in ft.smith and you are in little rock...
this thread is like kindergarten.....
ill give her props for mentioning someone other than Tom Cruise from TCOM....since everyone knows vince is a nit lol...and mary showed us tit
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Shoebat
I was actually very disappointed nobody volunteered any road tips. Yeah, I've travelled a ton, but it was 95% on my own so I had to learn it all on my own. I am dead positive there's stuff I still haven't figured out.
Also, I thought that using this particular thread as a vehicle might help Sunnyone figure some pool travel things out a little quicker, too. Traveling lessons can be dangerous if not expensive and uncomfortable.
Yeah, yeah: I know caffeine isn't great, esp for a pool player. But check this out. One morning I had three cups of coffee followed by a mocha with 4 shots of espresso, and then I went to the dentist- where they wanted to take my blood pressure before starting. ( ! )
I was actually kind of excited they were going to test blood pressure, and thought, man I'm really going to show them something. Caffeine overload plus general dentist fear? Wow, right? Total freaking let down: my blood pressure was lower than the average person's. So I figure I'd just be flat out comatose without caffeine. Since I don't have any other vices anymore, my coffee has now reached protected Sacred Status. Beware.
'People become immune to coffee boost', experts believe
Oh yeah- I've never been to an outback. But I can ask my boyfriend what he thinks of your 4 night a week offer, if you want.
Also, I thought that using this particular thread as a vehicle might help Sunnyone figure some pool travel things out a little quicker, too. Traveling lessons can be dangerous if not expensive and uncomfortable.
That is perfect! Can we eat at outback 4nights a week too, sir?!
Yeah, yeah: I know caffeine isn't great, esp for a pool player. But check this out. One morning I had three cups of coffee followed by a mocha with 4 shots of espresso, and then I went to the dentist- where they wanted to take my blood pressure before starting. ( ! )
I was actually kind of excited they were going to test blood pressure, and thought, man I'm really going to show them something. Caffeine overload plus general dentist fear? Wow, right? Total freaking let down: my blood pressure was lower than the average person's. So I figure I'd just be flat out comatose without caffeine. Since I don't have any other vices anymore, my coffee has now reached protected Sacred Status. Beware.
'People become immune to coffee boost', experts believe
Oh yeah- I've never been to an outback. But I can ask my boyfriend what he thinks of your 4 night a week offer, if you want.
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You might have a point if she was witty or had any writing ability. For my money if I want to read an interesting witty road trip story I'll stick with OMGWTF's blog. That girl can write.
That is perfect! Can we eat at outback 4nights a week too, sir?!
Only if you cash......otherwise it is Wendys and Taco Bells value menu:grin:
That is perfect! Can we eat at outback 4nights a week too, sir?!
Gawdammit! There are 2 of you?!I was actually very disappointed ...
Oh ...never been to an outback. But I can ask my boyfriend what he thinks of your 4 night a week offer, if you want.
This is getting more and more expensive every time I get back to it.Fukit! I am going alone!
I think sunny rocks...her story was funny..
Balh..balh..out back isn't all that..I like the road house.
You can throw your peanut shells on the floor..yep
I'm simple..steaks,beer or strawberry lemon aid,,
I'll never win that dinner..plastic works best for me.
Balh..balh..out back isn't all that..I like the road house.
You can throw your peanut shells on the floor..yep
I'm simple..steaks,beer or strawberry lemon aid,,
I'll never win that dinner..plastic works best for me.
C'mon, guys- try to be nice to each other. It's only a short life we've got on this planet and bickering and spittling doesn't make it any happier or longer.
Let's try this.
What items do you always bring on a road trip? What tips can you share? Finally, do you have any travel rituals?
(Pretend you’re going, at the very least, for over a week.)
Items
--Portable Navigation device, if your car doesn’t already have one. This is essential.
--Iron (clothes)
--Extra, extra socks (changing into new socks can boost you up and refresh your game between late night matches)
--plastic bags, different sizes
--bottle for water
--bowl/mug and spoon, fork, knife
--dried items: freeze dried coffee/ packets of instant oatmeal/ hot cocoa/ cup of noodles… sounds awful but you may very well end up with an empty stomach and no time, a broken down car, or an empty wallet
--Fresh Fruit, Energy bars, bag of dried cranberries (awesome in cereal and yogurt)
--big bag of pretzels
--flip flops
Tips
--Pack one small bag (backpack) and keep all of your necessities for one night in it: a clean change of clothes, pj’s, shampoo, toothbrush, phone charger, any medicines, etc., in it. This way if you’re driving really long hours, you only need to carry your cue and this one bag into the “I’m just stopping long enough to sleep” motel.... This is also your carry- on for the plane, so that when they lose your luggage, you’ve at least got everything for a shower and the clothes to wear while you shop for replacements and wait for your bags to be found.
--Dirty laundry should go into at least one large plastic bag in the trunk of the car. Less carrying around as you travel, no making clean clothes dirty, and easier laundry later (especially if you do a bag for colors and one for whites)
--No fridge? Plug up the bathroom sink and fill with two ice buckets. Wrap any food in the airtight plastic bags you brought, and bury them in the ice. That ice gives you at least until the next meal time.
--Electric teapot or one of those single- mug water heaters (for the dried items above). Mine is single- mug and plugs into the car lighter, which honestly is not the most convenient.
--Too many poolrooms are closing down without even a whisper. Or they have strange days and hours. Call and ask questions before you head over.
--The days of rolling into town, finding a payphone, and ripping out the Billiards pages from the yellow book are over. If you send a text to "google" with billiards, city, and state, they will text you back a list of entries with addresses and phone numbers. Text "more" as a reply, and you'll get a second list of hits in a slightly wider geographical range. Yay.
Rituals
--A friend of mine would always clean his cues, shaft to butt, and perfect his tip the night before a big tournament or match. I suspect it was a ritualistic way to get his head straight. He’d also stain the hotel washrag a permanent blue this way. (so thoughtful).
--My only ritual is Starbucks- for coffee and fresh salads and fruit cups. But I like the idea of having rituals.
Just about everything above was learned the hard way. Please share your Items, Tips, and Rituals and save a fellow AZBer some hardship.
Even tho this isn't drectly pool related, it sure has some great road trip tips! Being a "car guy" I usually carry stuff (tools & spares) for the car,
then forget all about care items for myself. Then find myself buying stuff in clothing and drug stores in towns I'm not familiar with.
For healthy sandwiches, head to a Safeway deli...
I'll be darn. We must be related.
Going down to New Iberia for a tournament a couple of weeks ago, I packed very carefully for days even though it was only a two day tournament, including usnusual items like a mini-safety kit and a few MOJO energy bars. As I traveled excitedly down the road, after a little over an hour, an alarm went off in my head as I looked in the back seat, knowing that my overnight bag was still at the house. The next thing I was doing was asking my pal Boradriver to locate a Walmart on his phone's GPS and then purchasing new underwear, deodorant, throw-away shaver, socks, toothpaste, toothbrush, hair brush, mouthwash and a few other things. At least I got some new underwear out of the trip. :grin:
C'mon, guys- try to be nice to each other. It's only a short life we've got on this planet and bickering and spittling doesn't make it any happier or longer.
Let's try this.
What items do you always bring on a road trip? What tips can you share? Finally, do you have any travel rituals?
(Pretend you’re going, at the very least, for over a week.)
Items
--Portable Navigation device, if your car doesn’t already have one. This is essential.
--Iron (clothes)
--Extra, extra socks (changing into new socks can boost you up and refresh your game between late night matches)
--plastic bags, different sizes
--bottle for water
--bowl/mug and spoon, fork, knife
--dried items: freeze dried coffee/ packets of instant oatmeal/ hot cocoa/ cup of noodles… sounds awful but you may very well end up with an empty stomach and no time, a broken down car, or an empty wallet
--Fresh Fruit, Energy bars, bag of dried cranberries (awesome in cereal and yogurt)
--big bag of pretzels
--flip flops
Tips
--Pack one small bag (backpack) and keep all of your necessities for one night in it: a clean change of clothes, pj’s, shampoo, toothbrush, phone charger, any medicines, etc., in it. This way if you’re driving really long hours, you only need to carry your cue and this one bag into the “I’m just stopping long enough to sleep” motel.... This is also your carry- on for the plane, so that when they lose your luggage, you’ve at least got everything for a shower and the clothes to wear while you shop for replacements and wait for your bags to be found.
--Dirty laundry should go into at least one large plastic bag in the trunk of the car. Less carrying around as you travel, no making clean clothes dirty, and easier laundry later (especially if you do a bag for colors and one for whites)
--No fridge? Plug up the bathroom sink and fill with two ice buckets. Wrap any food in the airtight plastic bags you brought, and bury them in the ice. That ice gives you at least until the next meal time.
--Electric teapot or one of those single- mug water heaters (for the dried items above). Mine is single- mug and plugs into the car lighter, which honestly is not the most convenient.
--Too many poolrooms are closing down without even a whisper. Or they have strange days and hours. Call and ask questions before you head over.
--The days of rolling into town, finding a payphone, and ripping out the Billiards pages from the yellow book are over. If you send a text to "google" with billiards, city, and state, they will text you back a list of entries with addresses and phone numbers. Text "more" as a reply, and you'll get a second list of hits in a slightly wider geographical range. Yay.
Rituals
--A friend of mine would always clean his cues, shaft to butt, and perfect his tip the night before a big tournament or match. I suspect it was a ritualistic way to get his head straight. He’d also stain the hotel washrag a permanent blue this way. (so thoughtful).
--My only ritual is Starbucks- for coffee and fresh salads and fruit cups. But I like the idea of having rituals.
Just about everything above was learned the hard way. Please share your Items, Tips, and Rituals and save a fellow AZBer some hardship.
Your post should have a thread of its own. It a great post and far too buried in this thread. Today, I would have to add a GPS to your list and a Google Information toll free number for finding the number and dialing the number of any business in America (800-466-4411). Try the google telephone information number, it really is free but now I'm wondering if that's where I have been getting all of those telemarketing phone calls from lately? :angry: