>Last Thread: >>2648804>"remember, we parked the car under rollercoaster C" edition.>What is this thread? Why are there two generals?/rcg/ was initially created as a way for the roller coaster enthusiasts on here to discuss all things roller coasters and theme parks. While roller coasters are the main focus of these threads (and the title of the general) there is also discussion on other theme parks, their rides, as well as the parks themselves and trip planning too. That's where /tpg/ comes in.>Can I talk about Disney/Universal parks in this thread?Absolutely! Disney discussion of all sorts including rides/resorts/dining/trip planning is OK.Thread Tip Pro: When in line for a coaster with a bunch of normies, feel free to autistically infodump to them every single iota of information you know about the ride you are about to go on: opening date, manufacturer, # of inversions, stats etc.Roller Coaster Database:>https://rcdb.com/Amusement Park News Sites:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2661294If you have time it's worth it for Pooh, Monsters Inc, and Beauty and the Beast
>>2661294TDL is very reminiscent of how Magic Kingdom and DL were in the 70s-80s, both in terms of maintenance standards and just general theming (especially Tomorrowland), which I personally like. That's not even mentioning the park next door which has the best theming on the planet
>>2661139Most of Disneyland has kind of a retro feel to it. Even Tomorrowland with the old time idea of "the future." Cramming star wars land right behind the land themed after 19th century US makes little sense other than they had more space. DCA makes more sense, but I'm not sure it had enough space.
>>2661291They had Crush's coaster at DLP to show them just how much of an issue it is having a low capacity 'novel' family coaster is in terms of disproportionate queue times. If you've only a single family coaster in a park, it will get busy as fuck, you'd better make sure it's high capacity.>lucked out at DLP as Crush's coaster finished maintenence early and opened a couple of hours before the park closed with a non insane queue.>actually enjoyed itSure it's short and a generic layout but spinning coasters in the dark that don't used wild mouse style layouts are fun. Got stuck at the top of the big drop for a few minutes and thought I was going to have to evac
>>2661371This, Crush Coaster is actually pretty damn fun, the problem is it's NEVER worth the astronomical wait times it has 95% of the time
My expectations were low, but holy crap. As a foreigners, I literally can't do anything here. Can't buy a sim card, can't open any useful aps, can't buy train tickets online... can't even pay for a KFC burger at the Hangzhou airport because I couldn't pay with Wechat pay! holy shiet bros. Why is China so hostile to foreigners right now?
>>2660868* Using the wechat app didn't workmeant to be two sentences.Do buy train tickets on trip.com. Don't bother too much with buying train tickets on wechat, your train ticket order will be randomly rejected/not accepted
>>2660870Weixin, get it right
>>2658135 it's absolutely reasonable but the way you make it about yourself sounds like you're going to try to cockblock me if i'm the one successful with bitches
>>2660988 Maybe I should have taken my time writing my recruitment post, including some research about events that'd be cool to attend, and consider the voice of my writing more.I guess I shouldn't of had low expectations for it happening, and treated this more seriously
>>2660386Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world. It has literally everything a consumer could want. So why don't you narrow it down to things you like doing?
Where should I go and what should I see? Good places to meet people too? Anyone want to hang out next week?CheersCan not speak a word of Greek
>>2655012Is this true or bait? I've never been
>>2653676yuk I'd never go to any of Greece if I had the knowledge how they live there every winter the violence the broken families everything. Don't forget all the incest, bestiality and pedos there. Yuk.
>>2653676Go to the cathedral, it's beautiful
>>2659897what the fuck is this anon talking about
>>2654641>Unless you if are very good looking or rich, Greeks won't be interested in meeting a foreigner, they have large friend cliques called pareas>somehow welcomed by a large group of Greeks, do you expect them to all speak English with you?What is with all the utterly retarded blackpill posts on this board?Nearly all Greeks speak english fine and don't get uppity about it like the French, I spent 6 months living there working remotely and had absolutely no problem making friends or meeting women, it's actually one of the friendliest places in Europe.Sounds more being a social retard issue rather than a Greece thing>t. Aussie
All about travel to Central Asia. Ever been there? Want to visit? Discuss it here.
Some time in September-October. I want to keep costs down as much as reasonably possible.Not too interested in SEA - a ticket costs $1200 and the flight is over 24 hours from where I live (midwest).
>>2660759Belize.
Since you havent told us what you are interested in doing, might I suggest Council Bluffs, Iowa. Very reasonable hotel prices, a few casinos, a poppin' Applebees, and only a 10 minute drive from Omaha's award-winning Henry Doorly zoo.
>>2661125how is this as a place to live? is it better than living in omaha? does it get a lot of pollution from the power plant (coal)?
>>2661137Taxes are much lower in Iowa and there are far fewer minorities and uppity liberals than Omaha. Omaha is just across the bridge so anything you want there is 5-10 minutes away.There are a lot more white druggies in Counciltucky though. Houses are more affordable than Omaha (not counting the nog area of North Omaha).
>>2660759>saying dollarydoos>not being AustralianywnbaJust go to south America or the Caribbean mate
For me its Japan. I have been there 4x and still want to go few more times.It's been the most picture perfect country I have traveled to. Love the traditional culture and food. Also customer service/hospitality is top class.
>>2661086Damn, I didn't know there could be anything this Soviet in the Americas
>>2661072Iceland, went two times with my wife and we talk about it every day how we only wanna go there on vacation. Your mind is at peace there, it does something to you you cant explain.
>>2661273LMAO. I am trying to genuinely imagine why this would be and im drawijng a blank. ya ya the landscapes and ocean is nice but many countrires have that.
Colombia has nice putas. Daddy like
I can't get Thailand out of my head. I've been 4 times and every time I plan a trip its always a question of Thailand or somewhere else. I recently booked a same day ticket to Thailand and went, calling in sick to work from the airport in Hong Kong.I keep trying to dream up ways to move there that don't involve some retardation like teaching English. There's nowhere in the world I'm happier.
There's good food everywhere, but some places simply seem to have an over abundance of it. What are some places you've visited and/or are familiar with that you can say with confidence: "If you go there and don't eat well, it’s your own fault."
>>2660515Thailand. Some of the best food I have ever eaten was made in a street cart in Bangkok.
>>2660974The soups are all top tier. Sancocho ajiaco mondongo. Coastal Colombian cuisine is goated. The mountain and llano food are an acquired taste. Fried dry ass meat that tastes like dirt mixed with sawdust.
>omg all the food in Asia is AMAZING!because it's all saturated with MSG, you silly fucks
I can't believe Perú hasn't been mentioned yet. The best food country in South America. Delicious, flavourful food made from fresh ingredients everywhere.
>>2661348Maybe it’s not that great?. I think it’s the lack of spice. I have yet had a good lomo saltado. Better than other South American but that isn’t saying much.
Philippines National Railroad (PNR) Edition./PHG/ is for discussing the following:-Bible/Prayer study with filipinas-Transportation options-Mega Malls-Provincial Tourism-Nightlife and hotspotsNo schizo posting allowed!
There are also plenty of communist rebels/terrorists but their M/O is similar in that you will never encounter these people one on one. They work as a group and strike or kidnap as a group. Again, carrying a weapon in this situation just makes you a target for increased aggression. You're probably not going to john wick yourself out of a kidnapping vs people who know where you are and have the advantage of surprise.If you're thinking that carrying a weapon in south PH regions makes you look like somebody who isn't to be messed with for pure intimidation factor, it has the opposite effect as outing you as completely alien and clueless, as well as being irrational, which gets you talked about, and get you attention you don't want.When traversing questionable areas as a white man who sticks out like a sore thumb, without backup, you need to try to fly under the radar OR go completely native and sympathetic and have a LOCAL FACTION AFFILIATED GUIDE who can vet you as just being a dipshit tourist who wants to see stuff.
>>2661251Eat shit
>>2661330well the cities can be okay, its the proximity to the weird shit which dramatically increases your chances of getting affected by the weird shit the further out into the sticks you get and the more isolated you are, the odds get less and less in your favorits all about playing your oddsthe faster you come and go, the more you can blend in, the more local tour guiding you have, the better your odds
>>2661333Anybody can see the gross bullshit if they travel around at all. Sometimes its only a street or two away from nice developments.Sometimes its even on the very same street, where modern developments are slowly replacing tin and concrete shack slum hives, and you get the awkward situation of the most poor people in the country and some of the most rich people in the country coming and going from the same couple blocks. Argue about it if you want, but you only out yourself as a never-been, or a pignoy who is angry that somebody noticed.
>>2661335Stfu retards
For example, traveling to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, or Syria (and maybe more) makes it more difficult to get a tourist visa to the US.Are there more examples of this? Thanks.
>>2660528I would imagine countries that aren't internationally recognized, which is probably why they don't stamp or stamp on a separate piece of paper?Entering Transnistria, the visa was a small piece of paper that had to be returned at the end of your stay. If I remember correctly, the Artsakh entry stamp was on a sticker, so you could decide to stick it in your passport or not. If you did, you wouldn't've been able to visit Azerbaijan on that passport though.Also, if you travel to Northern Cyprus through Turkey, you won't be able to visit Cyprus, as you entered the country illegally. Apparently no problem whatsoever to travel from Cyprus to Northern Cyprus and back.
>>2660528India to Pakistan or vice versa is another one.I've had to deal with this, particularly with Israel travel and more frequent travel to the Middle East (UAE & Saudi). The US allows you to have 2 active passports if you intend to travel to "conflict countries" Your primary passport (as an adult) is 10 years validity, and if you get a secondary, the expiration is in 4 years.Of course, this only applies if either of the countries you intend to visit are themselves adversaries and not enemies of the US.
>>2660528I don't know the details or have any first-hand experience, but I've heard that having evidence of visiting Israel in your passport will likely prevent you from being admitted to some countries. Apparently it doesn't have to be an Israeli stamp, e.g. having an Egyptian stamp from a border crossing with Israel would be enough to disqualify you.Novelty stamps can get you into some heat, any novelty stamp could cause issues but some more than others. Korean DMZ tours will take you to a non-functional railway station that has novelty stamps showing you're leaving that train station for Pyongyang. According to a guide I spoke to, some people have had issues entering other countries with that stamp (she didn't say which countries but hinted it was the US).
>>2660528Entering Serbia after Kosovo.
>>2661113Is this always an issue? I've heard that entering Serbia directly from Kosovo can cause problems, but is it a problem if you were to go (for example) from Kosovo to North Macedonia and then to Serbia?
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>>2658999What is the purpose of this schizo Gold Coast thread?
>>2659844welcome to the GC sib
i am going to land in paris without phone
>>2660915Artistry? why type? Globohomo or normal?
>>2660915youre just being autistic, #nophone isnt novel or cool bro just go on hour trip with a phone
i am going to hang out at café
I visited Paris with no phone once. I spent the days mostly in the museums d'Orsay and Louvre. I considered spending the first night by the Quay d'Orsay but the fog coming off the water made me cold. I had no blanket or coat, it was November. I walked to the Champs du Mars and the rats made me afraid. I bought vodka from a brown man and found some thick bushes near the base of the Eiffel Tower. I slept good for a few hours. Two men laid down right next to me and started having sex by the light of the Tower. They said beautiful things to each other while they fucked. I found it pretty touching even as I swore loudly in French and lashed out at them with vicious kicks. They ignored me. It was 3am. I got up and sat under the hot air vent in an alley behind a bakery. In the morning I walked to a cafe in the 8th arrondissement and had 2 coffees and a croissant. While crossing the street I found a crocheted wool hat which may have saved my life in the freezing nights that followed. I spent the day in the Louvre. I thought about passing the next night in a park on Montmartre but instead I took a train to Orleans and spent a week walking along the river to Tours.
>>2660889>>2660894>>2660895You're trying very hard to come off as ESL. I don't know why. But just know that I'm on to your stupid charade.
Anyone been to El Salvador? Anyone been a Bitcoin tourist there?I was just cleaning up an old flash drive and found 0.5 BTC, so I've got $32K to waste on whatever. I was thinking of flying down there and spending a few weeks on the beach.But how the fuck do I cash this out in El Salvador? I know that outside of "Bitcoin Beach" most businesses and street food vendors and whatever just deal in paper money; as a tourist, will the banks or forex kiosks exchange Bitcoin for dollars, since both are now recognized as legal tender there?
>>2660818Thanks, but I'm primarily wondering how I can convert some BC to USD for daily spending while in El Salvador. I don't have much USD, almost all of my money is in BTC. I know the grocery stores there mostly take it, and I guess I can pick a hotel that does, but I've heard that most of the small vendors for bottles of water or lunch or whatever only deal with cash.
bitcoin in El salvador is a bit of a meme. other than surf city and maybe a few beach resorts, your bitcoin will be pretty useless. I think you can 'cash' them at the bigger banks in San Salvador - do your own research - but yo pay a conversion fee.
I was in a small town in El Salvador. Two of the hotels accepted bitcoin. I spent 6 months there in the hotel, paying only in bitcoin the whole time. The owner even kicked me some cash for 23% charge. It was a pretty good time. It's really hot there though. Some places take it, some places don't El Salvador is kinda 3rd world. I never did go to bitcoin beach though. That place had the reputation of a party town.
Went to Salvador for a week in January, fun times, not super touristy, kind people, undevelopped. Food was meh, prices were cheap because of USD, tried paying with BTC once but it didn't work. Nightlife wasn't too lively, beaches and surfing were fun, jungle trecks and hikes are sketchy and would recommend a guide for some of the routes. All in all enjoyed my time there but wouldn't return.
>>2661214>I think you can 'cash' them at the bigger banks in San Salvador - do your own research - but yo pay a conversion fee.Thanks! That's fine, at least if the fee is reasonable. The exchange I used to use was 1.5%, the ones in the U.S. seem to be around 2%.>>2661267>for 23% charge.Holy crap. That's *not* reasonable. Did they at least charge you the standard rates for the rooms, and not gouge you?>>2661287Thanks, I'm hoping to do some fishing but mostly going just to GTFO from home for a while.
Just went to NYC for 3 days. Stayed at an Airbnb in williamsburg. Although I liked it for the first ~36 hours, I started to dislike a lot more as time went on.> Vast trash-scapes pretty much everywhere.> Food/coffee is incredibly fucking expensive, even at the "cheaper" places. Yet these places are packed.> Went to an extremely hipster coffee shop that charged 7 dollars for an espresso. Place was also extremely packed with mostly locals. > Servers/waitresses generally had shitty attitudes.> All of the Williamsburg locals seemed like giant faggots. People dress like fucking clowns. The stuff I overheard these people talking about was some of the most inconsequential, out of touch shit I've ever heard. How do these people afford to live here? Why does everyone seem like such an insufferable shithead? I've lived in cities and in the country, but with the exception of some restaurants, this place is uniquely repulsive. Are all of these people just living off of Daddy's money?
>>2661150Yeah, I thought that was only something people did once they already settled down to start a family. Doing it as a bachelor just seems like choosing to lay down and rot.
>>2661149I don't know, anon. I don't know anymore. I'm a Long Islander/NYer and I don't think I could fit in anywhere else. I have more in common with dominicans than your average southern white good old boy. I just hate what this is all heading to. I don't think there's anywhere else for me, and I get you that the rest of the USA is just as bad or worse in many ways.
>>2656363B.S. on the money-making potential in NYC. If you want that, you gotta go where labor is scarce but money is plentiful. The oilfields or hell, some affluent Colorado mountain town and get $20+ an hour for a basic retail or labor job while sleeping in your van.Fuck eating out in America. I'd rather cook something on a campstove, pocket that $40/day and spend it in Southeast Asia on a long winter vacation trip.
>>2656381My van costs $6.21/month in registration fees, $40/month for liability insurance, and 11 cents a mile for gas, which assuming 1500 miles a month is $165/month for gas and $6/month for oil. $20/month for wear and tear on tires and brakes. I paid $3400 for it and have put 37000 miles on it in three years. Still, it sucks being forced to rely on an old vehicle to get anywhere you need to go. A breakdown can be a life disaster if you have no mechanical aptitude, and don't have friends to give you rides.When I want to live the urban life, I do it at leisure overseas in Asia. You get all the grime and trash and food and culture, but at a fraction of the cost of the Big Apple.
>>2656200I'm sure many people in NYC make more money than I and my family do, but I very much doubt many of them are "richer" after controlling for cost of living, safety and cleanliness of surroundings, quality of life and social capital of community, and overall life satisfaction. These cities are hemorrhaging people, after all. Those with a triple-digit IQ and the means to do so are moving away from these third world liberal shit holes en masse.
Hows Mexico City? Thinking about going there for two weeks to a monthHows the mogging scene there?
Is two days enough?I only really care about visiting Teotihuacan and the national museum before going off to Cancun region to explore the other ruins.Are the Tula ruins worth checking out on an extra day?
>>2661146which latina left you brah?
>>2661146Same for Argentines
>>2661156I have a map with the location of all the pre-Hispanic ruins in Mexico.I think that 2 days in Mexico City are enough if you only care about pre-Hispanic things, but I think there are also interesting places nearby, like Cantona, Teotenango, Xochicalco, Cholula or Tula.https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=16pvvy4uFiCCuwdft-ucmRhG4C1AItV0&usp=sharing
>>2658558All depends on the rains. I think it rained early this year. >>2661146I only got robbed by the police in Mexico, when I foolishly slept in my car on a quiet city street, got woken up by cops, and handed them a bag containing my wallet and other personal items for "inspection" as demanded. My business dealings with Mexicans on the street were often curt, but I never really worried about getting ripped off, overcharged or scammed.
Heading to the Carolinas soon to hang out with some buddies and go on some adventures. What are the best places to go and things to see? And what are some things to avoid?
>>2660364>And what are some things to avoid?Black people
>>2661024Congaree National Park is probably interesting if you're into plant biology or whatever. Otherwise, you're in a swamp with a bunch of mosquitos. Note that Columbia was basically built on the same ecosystem and is hot and humid as a result. The city itself kinda sucks, its just the university and the state government mostly. Downtown is just now recovering from years of neglect, Five Points is a college bar area, which is boring as hell because zoomers don't know how to party. The rest of the inner city is upper-middle class neighborhoods to the east, middle class neighborhoods across the river to the west, and 'lower class' neighborhoods to the north. t. from there, don't recommend.
NC:-Wilmington (Beach Town and decent downtown)-Raleigh (Small City)-Asheville -Appalachian Mountains SC:-Also Charleston -Hilton Head can be good.
>>2660364Ooooh anon's going to the CaroLINAS with his BUDDIES oooHHHH
>>2661033Not happening unless you stay deep in the Appalachian hills. They are everywhere here. >t. visiting family in central NC
