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Congrats !! Haven't been out of US for over a year but i found the (then) free Mobile Passport the gov't has worked very well. Faster than Global Entry or Clear. Domestically Clear is certainly faster. For premium cards i stick with the Ritz Carlton. 450 fee offset by immediate 300 airline credit which Southwest and American giftcards work on (have to say they were baggage fees). Plus Priority Pass for up to 3 and primary car insurance, plus Global Entry credit. Not open to new apps but most Marriott cards can be product changed to it by phone after a few months and the new Bonvoy card is giving 3 50K nights free SUB. if you look the part (many of us do) asking for a wheelchair gets you through immigration and customs almost immediately no matter how long a line. and i don't know how anyone over 30 makes that long long hike then endless line at terminal 4 JFK. i always ask for a wheelchair there- because i have to- and am through in 2 minutes. one privilege of age.

If worse comes to worse you can always move out. 🙄

then he becomes a legal tenant with legal rights. bad move.

They have the names on the schedule: http://www.clubxroom.com/DancerSchedule.htm

In a surprise move from the country where the Delta variant recently hit hard, the UK will open to vaccinated EU and US citizens this monday. (New cases in the UK have dropped a lot in the past 7 days). Visitors will still have to test pre-flight and within 2 days of arrival but no quarantine. The 2nd BA flight from DC to LHR, the BWI-LHR flight and the Virgin DC-LHR flight are all resuming next week. Important for me with the passport renewal fiasco in the US: unlike European countries that require a passport be good for 3 or 6 months after departure, the UK has no such rules (my passport expires in January). The passport must just be good for the trip dates. Of course with Brexit, further travel from London will require checking European country rules and sometimes more tests. Also if you layover, some European countries still block travel from the UK I think.

whhhhhhaaaaatttttt??

There are 3 in Berlin and 3 in Hamburg plus other German cities I'm sure. But they are all full of guys from Romania. Not a German to be found offline. 1 of sorts in Prague with no Romanians or anyone else usually. Thermas Sauna in Barcelona is sex in rooms and Paragonya in Zurich is a bar with rentboys and rooms. Several like that in South America. At strip clubs guys do privates and moonlight. The best are all online.

Also Porn Base Central

Florida's wide-open. For romantic getways I like Sarasota and Key West.

In a shock I'm hearing the CDC has decided to not reopen to Europeans as they have for the US. Ridiculous since Europe now has lower cases than the US and vaccinated tourists pose zero problem. They are now more vaccinated than the US and gaining fast. Yet Europeans who go to Cancun for 14 days first can still come in because Mexico, in spite of it's high case number, has always been open to US travel. CDC are nuts.

In DC I know hotels that in 2019 were always $200 on HotelTonight are now $99, or lower. The Mall's empty again.

Catch 22 If a guy is hot and in demand he's busy with clients all day. If a guy readily responds he doesn't have much business.

If you're taking a guy and want him to fall for you : Hawaii. If you're going hunting for guys: Fort Lauderdale or Montreal.

now they've taken the appointment process offline totally because of people running bots and selling appointments: https://viewfromthewing.com/state-department-takes-online-passport-appointment-system-offline-for-last-minute-bookings/

I can qualify personally that this does not apply to all of Hawaii, even though Japanese tourists are missing in HNL, every-other-American seems to be trying to vacation in Hawaii right now. But here in DC hotels are still rock bottom, just like NYC and SFO: USAToday article San Francisco: -70%, from $203 to $62 Boston: -67%, from $184 to $61 Washington, D.C.: -65%, from $145 to $51 New York City: -62%, from $249 to $95 Chicago: -59%, from $126 to $52 Seattle: -56%, from $122 to $54 Minneapolis: -51%, from $81 to $40 Philadelphia: -46%, from $117 to $64 New Orleans: -41%, from $115 to $68 Oahu Island, Hawaii: -38%, from $185 to $114 Denver: -38%, from $102 to $63 Nashville: -37%, from $123 to $77 Orange County, California: -33%, from $117 to $79 Detroit: -31%, from $71 to $49 Orlando, Florida: -30%, from $91 to $64 Los Angeles: -27%, from $137 to $100 Saint Louis, Missouri: -27%, from $77 to $57 Houston: -25%, from $72 to $54 Dallas: -23%, from $77 to $59 Atlanta: -23%, from $79 to $60 San Diego: -23%, from $122 to $94 Phoenix: -6%, from $83 to $78 Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia: +1%, from $76 to $77 Tampa, Florida: +10%, from $95 to $104 Miami: +31%, from $136 to $178 U.S.: -22%, from $91 to $69

people learn to speak a lot louder when wearing masks. many implications.

I HOPE the US modifies the testing requirement for re-entry back into the US for vaccinated people. The present "easy, instant" tests are a PITA: LINK

If they live close by i bet you were tempted to offer to keep him when they needed to go out of town etc. That could have been a "selling" point but unfortunately could have also been a "return policy". As large as they are, like many breeds Rottweilers have their devoted fan base who seek them out but it's best to get them a permanent home while still young as mature dogs are much less adoptable. And with the tragedy of so many mature dogs being killed, that means many of us dog lovers should rethink our decision not to have another dog because of our own age.

At Kaiser medicare advantage the rate for Prep was $1000/mo last i checked.

They still have that departure within 3-days exception to get an appointment but unfortunately the situation is so bad now that when you choose that option they show you another screen that says this is only now for life-and-death emergencies and you must have proof of the life-or-death emergency as well as a ticket within 3 days. They wouldn't accept needing European sex as life-or-death. 😕 No office has Urgent Travel (Non-Emergency) appointments available now.

There are many additional shows available free that are PPV here in the US and all episodes of something like Mare of Eastown are available immediately. My Czech friends access Czech language shows on Netflix Europe etc while they visit here. I did have the AVG VPN i bought from NewEgg and it was super cheap and easy.

Today Biden says news on the re-opening of travel from Europe is coming "within days" (i guess next week). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/biden-says-his-covid-team-is-weighing-lifting-europe-travel-ban Shares of Air France-KLM, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and IAG SA gained in Europe after Biden said his Covid-19 advisers are weighing when to lift the prohibitions, while U.S. airline stocks also rose in pre-market trading. German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the issue in a White House meeting on Thursday.“It’s in process now,” Biden said at a news conference with Merkel following their meeting. “I’m waiting to hear from our folks, our Covid team, as to when that should be done.” He said to expect an answer “within the next several days.”

Meaning the envelope was not opened for 4 weeks as checks are immediately deposited. I had a small amount paper tax return lost at IRS this past year because after i sent a replacement that was cashed in 3 days, the original check from 14 months ago was also cashed meaning they found the return laying somewhere at USPS or IRS according to a human i spoke with. He said USPS and IRS service centers were full of piles of paper returns. (I wish i had shifted to online returns before the pandemic but it was impossible after as i had to have my lost return info to qualify). I also went through over a year getting a Real-ID DC driver's license as a renewal because Social Security had my first and middle names transposed. In the process of dealing with many Congress rep workers and SSA workers i realized they were all at home from voices in the background. I wouldn't describe any as "work" or "help". It was a fluke i got my renewal finally. Some Congresscritters are asking for the Passport Office to get additional workers to clear the backlog but unfortunately that backlog exists in almost every agency. The media is barely conscious of anything not a narrative or a meme. The fact is most government is backlogged a year. I don't see why a "stimulus" can't be used to clear the backlog, as federal jobs, even temporary, are usually easy to fill in areas service centers are located in. And maybe pay federal workers overtime to clear up the mess the shutdown cost.

More bad passport renewal news. The State Department now says passports submitted through the mail for renewal can be expected back in up to 18 weeks, or 12 weeks if an applicant pays extra for expedited processing. I bet it's not even this fast.