Comments on: I Need to Go Somewhere. I Should Look for a Cheap Travel Deal

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:27:02 +0000

Hi Kathy-yeah I think on your site you mentioned your Chicago/husband connection.

And “honorable?” Well, I’m just a guy doin’ my thing…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:44:31 +0000

Wow! I sensed that you were an honorable guy and now I see I was right!

My husband has a lot of family in the ‘burbs and so we travel down and through a couple of times a year…I’m a little familiar with the territory!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:29:54 +0000

Hi Kathy!
That is the additional irony of the situation. I spent a LOT of time getting into a land fighting unit in the Navy Reserves. A LOT. And I finally got into the Seabees AND managed to get into one of the few deploying units for Iraq. Then I heard from her, and her spiel was “this is happening, that is happening, I’ve loved you since…” so I got a release to come and help. Left my Los Angeles life and my military life.

“Full disclosure” as they say; I also wasn’t happy with my mother’s quality of life out here, and I’m not a military guy by nature, but I had worked in the WTC during my NYC decade.

And so I’m right in the City’s South Side.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:09:11 +0000

Sheesh, that sucks. I’d be pretty hands off too after being shit on like that.

How did you end up in Chicago? Are you downtown or a suburb?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:55:15 +0000

Hello sHae
Yeah, local are trips can really satisfy the need to travel with the small pocketbook (or wallet). I used to do it all the time in LA. And I got a book out the library called Wild Chicago that’s got a lot of junk like a big ball of string or rubber bands in a close by suburb (there’s other stuff in there too)!