DowntownRDB Posted at 3-6 04:26
Here they constantly fill the local hotels and restaurants.  When visiting Disney World you'd think you were at the United Nations when hearing all the different languages being spoken.  

Right now major league baseball spring training games have kicked off so getting lots of locals and tourists at the baseball parks.  

Our hotels are always full of business people
And a lot of the tourists here are not younger people with good paid jobs, rv people are elderly most of times and same with cruiseships.

Disney World is an attraction that everyone want to visit from young age etc. so that I can understand.

johansenfoto Posted at 3-6 04:53
Our hotels are always full of business people
And a lot of the tourists here are not younger people with good paid jobs, rv people are elderly most of times and same with cruiseships.

It is good to see the economy pick back up after the lull we had with COVID.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-6 12:53
It is good to see the economy pick back up after the lull we had with COVID.

I agree.
And the main tourist destination here in the north had a lot of visitors last summer

johansenfoto Posted at 3-6 13:34
I agree.
And the main tourist destination here in the north had a lot of visitors last summer

Very good for the economy to have tourists year around.

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-7 02:53
Very good for the economy to have tourists year around.

That's true and me personally like talking with tourists I meet

johansenfoto Posted at 3-7 06:12
That's true and me personally like talking with tourists I meet

Very true.  Nice to get to know people from other countries.  I had the pleasure of doing that during my long Navy career.  I traveled to 64 countries and had duty stations in 3 overseas locations.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-7 11:42
Very true.  Nice to get to know people from other countries.  I had the pleasure of doing that during my long Navy career.  I traveled to 64 countries and had duty stations in 3 overseas locations.

That sounds really great

johansenfoto Posted at 3-7 12:02
That sounds really great

Kind of went along with their slogan - Join the Navy and see the world.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-8 04:15
Kind of went along with their slogan - Join the Navy and see the world.

Nice, and not like the Norwegian navy destroying their own ships

johansenfoto Posted at 3-8 04:36
Nice, and not like the Norwegian navy destroying their own ships

I saw that on the news.  At least it was a decommissioned ship.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-8 04:58
I saw that on the news.  At least it was a decommissioned ship.

I don't think it was decomissioned since it was during a big exercise.
But anyway, southerners in Norway are not smart

johansenfoto Posted at 3-8 05:01
I don't think it was decomissioned since it was during a big exercise.
But anyway, southerners in Norway are not smart

Oh no, sorry to hear that.  The one I heard about must have been a different one.  This is the one I heard about:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news ... -range-missile.html

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-8 05:12
Oh no, sorry to hear that.  The one I heard about must have been a different one.  This is the one I heard about:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336822/Caught-camera-The-explosive-moment-Norwegian-navy-blows-OWN-ship-test-latest-long-range-missile.html

Ah I actually forgot about that one. The case I was thinking about is when a fregatt crashed into a oil tanker

johansenfoto Posted at 3-8 10:07
Ah I actually forgot about that one. The case I was thinking about is when a fregatt crashed into a oil tanker

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Yikes, that is really bad.  Tanker and Frigate meeting like that could have ended in a huge explosion.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-8 13:27
Yikes, that is really bad.  Tanker and Frigate meeting like that could have ended in a huge explosion.

It could. So that navy ship turned into scrap after that.

johansenfoto Posted at 3-8 17:02
It could. So that navy ship turned into scrap after that.

No doubt it was not salvageable.  Real shame.

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-9 03:22
No doubt it was not salvageable.  Real shame.

True, but things like this can happen

johansenfoto Posted at 3-9 04:35
True, but things like this can happen

Living onboard war ships always presents safety issues to be aware of and live by.  Catastrophe can happen if you get complacent.

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-9 04:59
Living onboard war ships always presents safety issues to be aware of and live by.  Catastrophe can happen if you get complacent.

That's why southerners in Norway should never be onboard

johansenfoto Posted at 3-9 06:11
That's why southerners in Norway should never be onboard

   

DowntownRDB Posted at 3-9 12:49

You it is the same with you guys complaining about Ohio

johansenfoto Posted at 3-9 13:07
You it is the same with you guys complaining about Ohio

Indeed.