dryslot Posted July 11, 2025 Share Posted July 11, 2025 On 6/22/2025 at 10:28 AM, alex said: They also opened a new tramway connecting Cervinia on the Italian side to zermatt on the Swiss side, giving easy access to the ice cave. Very cool! Looks like a very cool place......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 13, 2025 Share Posted July 13, 2025 Ger/Swiss/Austrian/Italian alps are amazing, best place I've ever traveled to by far. Spent most of 3 weeks there. highly recommended, a good bit of English is spoken esp. the touristy spots, plus you can practice a variety of languages! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted July 13, 2025 Share Posted July 13, 2025 10 hours ago, Torch Tiger said: Ger/Swiss/Austrian/Italian alps are amazing, best place I've ever traveled to by far. Spent most of 3 weeks there. highly recommended, a good bit of English is spoken esp. the touristy spots, plus you can practice a variety of languages! Yeah I agree. A really amazing country with probably some of the happiest and most laid back people of any European Country. The flight attendant on my Air Swiss flight was fluent in like 6 languages. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted July 15, 2025 Share Posted July 15, 2025 On my ski trip, we did Aosta Valley, Chamonix and Zermatt. Fell in love with Aosta Valley. Beautiful valley with middle age ruins and vineyards. Friends are mountain biking there next month. I've been thinking of going back at some point and renting an apartment for a few months. By car, you can hit 15 or so ski areas within 90 minutes or less. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdstck Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Spent the last week or so in Boothbay Harbor. Tuesday was the first time we saw the sun near the coast. Monday on the water was foggy and cold. Amazing weather micro climate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 9 minutes ago, wdstck said: Spent the last week or so in Boothbay Harbor. Tuesday was the first time we saw the sun near the coast. Monday on the water was foggy and cold. Amazing weather micro climate. Did you at least go to Port of Italy? Great Italian food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdstck Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 1 hour ago, DavisStraight said: Did you at least go to Port of Italy? Great Italian food Yup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 He was simply amazing and there’s nobody else quite like him. 3 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 First concert that I was allowed to go to with just friends. We took the red line to the green line to the old Boston Garden. It was 1982 Bark at the Moon tour. Up and coming band called Mötley Crüe was the opening act.. I was 14 years old. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACKASS Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 So glad he got to do his final show! Hits hard at the lost though! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 39 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: He was simply amazing and there’s nobody else quite like him. I forgot how different he looked back in those days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 1 hour ago, JACKASS said: So glad he got to do his final show! Hits hard at the lost though! What an amazing way to go out! That day was a fitting tribute to a hard rock icon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 love the classic "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" stage backing Remember watching this as a kid, like WHOA 300,000 people...takes a lot of cajones to even attempt this unless you're a pro. And only play to the front audience, not the back, unless you're amazing 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 On 7/15/2025 at 5:49 PM, Angus said: On my ski trip, we did Aosta Valley, Chamonix and Zermatt. Fell in love with Aosta Valley. Beautiful valley with middle age ruins and vineyards. Friends are mountain biking there next month. I've been thinking of going back at some point and renting an apartment for a few months. By car, you can hit 15 or so ski areas within 90 minutes or less. That’s where my sister lives. My favorite area in the Alps. Sud Tyrol (Alto Adige) is a bit more upscale but there’s something more authentic about the Aosta Valley - and I love the stone and wood architecture. So scenic. Every year that we go back we lean more and more towards the Alps and less toward the coast. The Italian coastline is gorgeous but sooooo crowded it’s become unpleasant unless you go off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 2 hours ago, JACKASS said: So glad he got to do his final show! Hits hard at the lost though! 47 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: What an amazing way to go out! That day was a fitting tribute to a hard rock icon. I was surprised at how well he performed and by the time Sabbath was playing Paranoid, they were absolutely rolling. Geezer was wailing and even Bill Ward was holding his own. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 11 minutes ago, mreaves said: I was surprised at how well he performed and by the time Sabbath was playing Paranoid, they were absolutely rolling. Geezer was wailing and even Bill Ward was holding his own. Geezer and Tony Iommi were amazing at that show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCORH4L Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 Bill Ward not afraid to take his shirt off for the show, awesome lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 12 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said: Bill Ward not afraid to take his shirt off for the show, awesome lol Ya' about 3 songs in he said "fuk this, it's too hot and humid.' 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 9 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Ya' about 3 songs in he said "fuk this, it's too hot and humid.' Iommi said he looked like Gollum and he did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 24, 2025 Share Posted July 24, 2025 RIP Hulk Hogan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 24, 2025 Share Posted July 24, 2025 1 hour ago, dryslot said: RIP Hulk Hogan. And Bobby Richardson, light-hitting 2B for the Yankees - still holds the record for RBI in a World Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 24, 2025 Share Posted July 24, 2025 RIP Chuck Mangione. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 25, 2025 Share Posted July 25, 2025 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 25, 2025 Share Posted July 25, 2025 On 7/23/2025 at 10:17 AM, mreaves said: Iommi said he looked like Gollum and he did. Quite the change from the 1980's, when he quit touring because of serious health issues (etc). He looks far heathier than say, 1985. One of my favorite drummers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted July 25, 2025 Share Posted July 25, 2025 RIP https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2025/pns25-51_soliciting_comments_sref_termination.pdf We'll always have the significant tornado ingredients and some zonked out snowfall amounts to Montreal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston Bulldog Posted July 26, 2025 Share Posted July 26, 2025 After 4 years braving the frozen wasteland of upstate NY, and the tropical island of Manhattan, I am returning to Boston to join the fight against KBOS snowfall observations. Excited to be providing a new data point from just south of the Pru to help give a more accurate understanding of just how much snow actually fell in Boston 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted July 29, 2025 Share Posted July 29, 2025 On 7/22/2025 at 10:24 PM, alex said: That’s where my sister lives. My favorite area in the Alps. Sud Tyrol (Alto Adige) is a bit more upscale but there’s something more authentic about the Aosta Valley - and I love the stone and wood architecture. So scenic. Every year that we go back we lean more and more towards the Alps and less toward the coast. The Italian coastline is gorgeous but sooooo crowded it’s become unpleasant unless you go off season. IndyPass just posted they have added Pila! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 On 7/29/2025 at 10:04 AM, Angus said: IndyPass just posted they have added Pila! Spent a lot of time skiing Pila as a kid. Great mountain but gets crowded! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying MXZ Posted August 5, 2025 Share Posted August 5, 2025 We're staying at a house on Sebago Lake from 8/9 to 8/14. Almost 50 y/o parents, 20 and 18 y/o kids. We'll do the usual Portland trip for lobstah one day, lean toward nature stuff the other days. Any must see or must do's in the area? Don't mind driving a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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