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The NEXUS card is the best deal going. Includes Global Entry and is only $50 for five years. Of course the downside is you probably need to travel to somewhere close to either the Canadian or Mexican border to enroll. If you live in a border state it's a no-brainer.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Also gets you precheck.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Correct. Pretty good deal for $50.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
This is why you can’t get an interview, I need to sign up for twitter just for this one bot.
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Originally Posted by The AD
And don’t be a fool like me and let your GE expire. The renewal process is a re-application and another interview.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Happened to me. Took a year to get it back. Luckily I didn't have to do an interview, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by spanky
Wife loves fruit.
Buys like 2 pounds of grapes in Munich for our return flight.
Doesn’t want to leave the leftovers on the plane in Dulles because that’s rude.
Apparently Dulles isn’t a “big” airport so they don’t have tons of the giant “Toss Your Contraband” containers and we cruise through GE.
I quickly make friends with a Beagle who wants me to come to the cavity search room for a chat with his handler.
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^ At least they didn't revoke your GE because of this.
Seriously though, I've passed a top level security background check for an airport project, and breezed through the GE application, so I don't know exactly what the government is looking for because I'm the last guy I'd be giving any kind of security clearance to.
When I was working on the local airport expansion, I could key myself through a door carrying whatever I wanted and go wherever I wanted in the airport and on the flight line, and meanwhile nuns were getting strip searched by the TSA. It never made sense to me.
Strategic ambiguity. Seriously, they switch it up, and make it different at different airports so a person never really knows what to expect. If the security feels random and makes no sense, you cant really plan to subvert it. Whether that actually results in more safety is debatable.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
FWIW. i accidentally let my NEXUS expire, and re-signed up for it thinking id have to go to another interview per the instructions... but low and behold when my application was eventually accepted and the next step was supposed to be scheduling an interview, the website just said i was approved and a new card was in the mail to me. Easy peasy.
So what we’ve learned is that Liv2ski should apply for NEXUS and fly to Vancouver/Buffalo for the interview.
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It's a bit of a broken system in my opinion. They probably saw you had a previous card and just let you through.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
Also, kids are supposedly required to interview on renewal so when they are old enough they can get the retinal scan, but two of mine just got approved on a renewal without an interview. Which is great since it's impossible to get one in Blaine, especially three in a row. What's weird is my oldest (age 15) it's still showing as conditionally approved while his brothers just skated by.
I feel like there must be some randomness to it. Last time I renewed I had to go in for an interview and my wife did not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonder_River
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Originally Posted by Danno
I got my GE card last summer. It's def not this...Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
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I'd just re apply.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
After my pre acceptance, it was time to get an interview date. They were all months out.
Then I start getting an email every Friday about 7pm saying there are some new openings next week. I'm always too late for the handful each day.
It occurs to me to look on the website at 5pm and there are all the new dates for the next week. Open and available.
I set up an appointment and drove down the next Sunday to SLC airport. About 4+ hours each way.
Get there, walk up to the empty area and beat the young couple and 2 kids in strollers. They were a rolling clusterfuck so stoked I wasn't 5 minutes later.
Officer behind the glass does my paperwork and hands me my stuff and says ok, yer good to go.
Huh, no questions? Nope, Have a good day.
Coming home from Euro BBI with Swerve last spring was a bitch when we were first getting to the SLC baggage carousel but were last-ish to get our skis.
Walking over and getting scanned and walking past the 100 people who got their bags first but now had to stand in passport line, Fucking priceless.
Not sure if this has been brought up, the cheap Air Portugal flights to Europe listed via google flights don’t include the fee for selecting your seat, which, of course, is not a guarantee. It was an extra $125 rt per person.
Dear travel hacks and advice, how many 10 mg gummies do I need to get through a 14 hour flight?
N+1Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Fucking amateur.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
50mg or GTFO.
I fly on 100mg normally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Once took 225mg of syrup before a flight from Seattle to SLC. That was intense. Do not recommend.
Jesus. I just want to sleep for ten hours, not find a new dimension of being.
Start at 30mg. Have a pack in your pocket. Add as needed.
Right?Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
I only use THC as a sleep aid, not recreationally. After trying a few products, Wyld Elderberry works best to put me out. Given I have zero tolerance, a 10mg gummy could let me sleep through a car crash, but it wears off after 5ish hours, so if I really wanted to sleep the whole flight, I might take a second one if I woke up.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
I think five hours if sleep is enough though, just makes it easy to fall asleep at a reasonable local time when I get to where I'm going.
Sleeping through a plane crash might not be so bad either. Not sure I want to wake up to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Trekking poles in carry on? I have the bd poles that breakdown to be very short. Are there tips/tricks to guarantee they can be carried on and not be denied by tsa?
They're kinda stabby. I doubt you can get them past TSA.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
That would assume TSA is consistent.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
I had a pedal wrench confiscated. The TSA agent made a striking motion. I pointed out that the professional photographers tripod
ahead of me, weighed at least 20x heavier, with much greater lethality.
How dare you question my authority!
Both Mrs. Plug and I carried on our folding BD poles on the 3 flights out and 2 flights back from SEA to Nairobi, (and back), in late June.
Trekking poles are an explicit “no” in the carryon.
Will they always catch them? Probably not. But I wouldn’t risk my expensive carbon BD Z poles.
I had a U-lock a roll of packing tape I used to tape up the bike boxes and maybe some cable ties cpnfiscated cuz some cow in manchester did not like it thinking I'm going to use this stuff on the crew, she went off on the GF's teenage kid who called her on the BS
so whatever man it was all cheap compared to the thousands spent on this trip
JHC yourself. You seriously gonna rely on an AI answer when you get to security?Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
LMGTFY.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-...s/hiking-poles
I hate trekking poles. Keep your weight over your feet.
Pro tip: the google AI assistant is super low on accuracy on shit that matters.
OK. Sorry it was late and I was watching football. Anyway, lots of BD folding trekking poles on our last few trips without incident.
After several google searches, I found this fairly recent blog post https://thenwewalked.com/hiking-poles-on-a-plane/
I haven’t messed with those bd z poles too much (other than on trail walks), can they be easily disassembled into multiple parts and reassembled? Would that matter?
Looking on forums, like Rick steves forum, I see posts of people that were successful carrying them on and people that didn’t want to risk trying to carry them on, but I haven’t seen posts where people were stopped by TSA (or foreign equivalent) and not allowed to carry them on.
I used them many years ago on a long backpacking trip with my wife. I liked them, but forgot about using them except when ski touring. Now decades later of continual hard skiing and missing soft tissue hardware in a knee…. on a late May ski tour with lots of dirt walking, I was reminded of their helpfulness and my “good” and bad knees ached less during and afterwards…. I’m back to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
Proper trekking pole form really does relieve strain on the knees, especially when going downhill.
90% of the people you see out on the trail have no idea how to use them or even how to put the wrist straps on though…it is intuitive for skiers (especially XC or touring), but a good chunk of people seem to think they are a toy meant for lightly tapping the ground with or are only to be used for balance when stepping up onto a log or something.
Look into Camino Sours that have 10mg of THC, CBN & CBD. Need more? Try ABX Sleepy Time with 25mg of THC & 12.5 of CBN.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1cb32a8d06.jpg
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I have questionable knees and was recovering from a bad ankle sprain on a hiking trip in September. Not usually one to use them, but with trekking poles I had no issues, even though the ankle wasn't (and still isn't) fully healed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e