{"id":8248,"date":"2025-10-23T03:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:08:45","slug":"so-much-for-that-particular-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/so-much-for-that-particular-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much For THAT Particular Shutdown…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
Yannow, when you look into the abyss…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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….and you realize
“I ain’t got enough time for this shit!!!”
(h\/t CA and WiscoDave)

Whelp…
After a few hours of contemplation, I’ve decided to say “Fuck it” and do what I do best.

Bail.

Depart my Area of Operations for ‘parts unexplored’

See… I’ve ‘done’ ALL of the EU with the exception of a few locations… Portugal, Hungary… a couple or so of the former Warsaw Pact places, primarily b\/c it either was STILL behind the wall (1984 when I lived alllll over Europe as a kid for a year and East\/West Germany was still 2x different countries) OR just not good enough to visit long-term, the former Yugoslavia case in point as they were shooting at each other for quite a spell

What I haven’t done<\/strong> is a LOT of US Travel

I’ve done the majority of Texas while stationed there, Tennessee and Kentucky, having lived there AND been stationed there, and ALL of New England having been raised there… I’ve also done a fair bit of Northern Cali, and a two week trip to DisneyLAND that MomUnit actually won in a contest no shit… like 8?-9? days in Disney, all expenses paid when I was 17.

The current female, potential X#2 and I did quite a bit of exploring In Georgia, and South Carolina where MomUnit currently resides, as well as our former bolt-hole in North Carolina… That’d being said, there’s some places I WANT to go…

And this weekend?
Well Fuck It All.
It’s payday.
Road Trip to New Orleans.
Only a 9 hour ride.
Off season, the hotel at the Airport is only $100 a night and gas? I can do this on the cheap.

Do a Riverboat ride, maybe hit the Haunted Ghost tour ‘stuff’
Shit like that.
Chase Random Strange
Maybe get in a Gunfight in the French Quarter with some retarded ‘groids…

That being said, I will be doing <\/strong>The French Quarter during daylight<\/strong> and yes, I will be heeled as they’re a Constitutional Carry State… Leave the vehicle at the Airport, and either Uber or take one of the French Quarter Hotel busses to the French Quarter right?

Why the fuck not?
Pictures to follow, and we’ll see how it goes.
Since deciding to ditch the bullshit, I’m much more positive.

So More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!Yannow, when you look into the abyss… ….and you realize“I ain’t got enough time for this shit!!!”(h\/t CA and WiscoDave) Whelp…After a few hours of contemplation, I’ve decided to say “Fuck it” and do what I do best. Bail. Depart my Area of Operations for ‘parts unexplored’ See… I’ve ‘done’ ALL of the … Continue reading “So Much For THAT Particular Shutdown…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8251,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}