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Old 05-01-2018, 06:11 PM   #1
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Cool Bought a one way ticket to Alaska AMA

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Old 05-01-2018, 06:24 PM   #2
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Old 05-01-2018, 06:47 PM   #3
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What happened to Poots?

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 06:49 PM   #4
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How do I find true love?

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 06:56 PM   #5
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Is Alaska your favourite drag queen?

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 07:12 PM   #6
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Old 05-01-2018, 09:14 PM   #7
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You can go to Alaska but you can’t go on one little dome tour in ATL? Dead 2 me

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 09:17 PM   #8
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are you becoming an ice fisherman

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 09:34 PM   #9
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isn't it cold there

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 10:39 PM   #10
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does McDonald's serve a burger made from chunk of ice to suit the local palette there?

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 10:39 PM   #11
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I've been there

it is lovely though I went during the summer so it's as if I didn't go at all I suppose

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 10:41 PM   #12
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Do you think it's stupid that you have to travel across Canada to get to Alaska and then you're in the United States again?

 
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Old 05-01-2018, 11:04 PM   #13
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Old 05-01-2018, 11:50 PM   #14
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can i go with you

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 12:25 AM   #15
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What happened to Poots?
Idk, hopefully dead. He was trash.

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How do I find true love?
Grindr

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Is Alaska your favourite drag queen?
No, that's Manitoba

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why
Loaded question. I'm settled here. A job that pays the bills. A decent enough condo with my brother who is a permanent roommate and I never have to worry about him bailing. A car that's paid off. Parents close by that will always help. So I'm stagnant and always have been. No motivation to do better. So, maybe I'm crazy, but I feel I need to get close to rock bottom and be in a position where I have to try to survive or be a failure. There's no risk of me failing here so I just cruise. I'm also tired of living in a big city, and traffic, and all the transient population, and everything seems fake and manufactured. My closest friend lives there now too and I want to be close to him but with that said I'm not planning on telling him. He knows kn considering it but I want to do this alone without any help from anyone and not feel indebted or anything like that. I'm taking very few belongings and I guess my cat but I'm iffy on that because of the hassle. I probably will though, I have a plan for it.

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You can go to Alaska but you can’t go on one little dome tour in ATL? Dead 2 me
I'm in a different financial situation now and the money I'm putting into this is to improve my quality of life and put myself in a position where I need to do better. I'm cheap with money, I only want to make some kind of long term investment.

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are you becoming an ice fisherman
Maybe. I'm going there without a job.

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isn't it cold there
I'll probably die in the winter which honestly wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

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does McDonald's serve a burger made from chunk of ice to suit the local palette there?
Only fish burgers.

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Do you think it's stupid that you have to travel across Canada to get to Alaska and then you're in the United States again?
Not if you fly. I'm not taking my car.

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Is Superorgansim the best new band of 2018?
I don't listen to music anymore.

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can i go with you
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what's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
Cookies and cream. Lame, I know.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 01:57 AM   #16
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How do we achieve world communism?

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 01:59 AM   #17
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Do you think it's stupid that you have to travel across Canada to get to Alaska and then you're in the United States again?
This.

And Hawaii too.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 02:00 AM   #18
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You guys fish for ice up there? You know you can make it in freezers, right?

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 02:06 AM   #19
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This.

And Hawaii too.
Wait, you don't have to travel across Canada to get to Hawaii, do you?

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 06:24 AM   #20
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Have you read Into The Wild and did it influence this decision in any way, shape or form?

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 07:36 AM   #21
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how do you feel about pandas?

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 07:46 AM   #22
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Loaded question. I'm settled here. A job that pays the bills. A decent enough condo with my brother who is a permanent roommate and I never have to worry about him bailing. A car that's paid off. Parents close by that will always help. So I'm stagnant and always have been. No motivation to do better. So, maybe I'm crazy, but I feel I need to get close to rock bottom and be in a position where I have to try to survive or be a failure. There's no risk of me failing here so I just cruise. I'm also tired of living in a big city, and traffic, and all the transient population, and everything seems fake and manufactured. My closest friend lives there now too and I want to be close to him but with that said I'm not planning on telling him. He knows kn considering it but I want to do this alone without any help from anyone and not feel indebted or anything like that. I'm taking very few belongings and I guess my cat but I'm iffy on that because of the hassle. I probably will though, I have a plan for it.


Maybe. I'm going there without a job.

Not if you fly. I'm not taking my car.
Enrique! dang. It does not sound all that happy, but... it could be! Alaska, hell yes.

WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING?
WHICH PART?
CAN I COME VISIT??? (next year, that is.)

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I don't listen to music anymore.
In retrospect the time I did not listen to any music (a couple of years ago) was maybe the time when I was the deadest inside (deadest inside is straight up Montese, isn't it.)
You will have to. When you stand in the woods in Alaska. You need headphones and music.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 09:47 AM   #23
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Enrique! dang. It does not sound all that happy, but... it could be! Alaska, hell yes.

WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING?
WHICH PART?
CAN I COME VISIT??? (next year, that is.)


In retrospect the time I did not listen to any music (a couple of years ago) was maybe the time when I was the deadest inside (deadest inside is straight up Montese, isn't it.)
You will have to. When you stand in the woods in Alaska. You need headphones and music.
I'm scared, especially of the first month or so, but I absolutely have to do it. I don't think there's any chance my depression will end or my life will improve here. My flight is on July 10th, I'm going to Anchorage. Everything is booked. And of course you can come visit! Going skiing and break our legs together!

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:02 AM   #24
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Have you read Into The Wild and did it influence this decision in any way, shape or form?
No and given the name it sounds like something I shouldn't read because it will scare me away from this idea.

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how do you feel about pandas?
They should infest the world and kill all humans.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:03 AM   #25
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Loaded question. I'm settled here. A job that pays the bills. A decent enough condo with my brother who is a permanent roommate and I never have to worry about him bailing. A car that's paid off. Parents close by that will always help. So I'm stagnant and always have been. No motivation to do better. So, maybe I'm crazy, but I feel I need to get close to rock bottom and be in a position where I have to try to survive or be a failure. There's no risk of me failing here so I just cruise. I'm also tired of living in a big city, and traffic, and all the transient population, and everything seems fake and manufactured. My closest friend lives there now too and I want to be close to him but with that said I'm not planning on telling him. He knows kn considering it but I want to do this alone without any help from anyone and not feel indebted or anything like that. I'm taking very few belongings and I guess my cat but I'm iffy on that because of the hassle. I probably will though, I have a plan for it.
enrique, you're beautiful and i love you. no sarcasm.
this is inspiring.

i don't want to come off as the guy who thinks he'd reached enlightenment or anything, but i've done pretty much what just you're talking about, only somewhat less cool. i moved to china. but, it was still wholly crazily uncharted territory, in the wake of brutal heartbreak, and it has been a skin-shedding complete mindfuck crazy progress of a process. if you need to, let yourself burn down to ashes when you go there. but keep going. embrace it and smell the flowers. i'm honestly excited for you and what you may find.

if it's worth anything, i honestly believe you are doing the right thing

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:11 AM   #26
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Arm ourselves and kill the elite. Yeah I know it's not gonna happen and I wouldn't partake because I'm a shit commie.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:15 AM   #27
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I really like what tb wrote. I'm excited for you, too.

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:15 AM   #28
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but I reckon pave is right and you should take headphones and listen to music...

 
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Old 05-02-2018, 10:18 AM   #29
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enrique, you're beautiful and i love you. no sarcasm.
this is inspiring.

i don't want to come off as the guy who thinks he'd reached enlightenment or anything, but i've done pretty much what just you're talking about, only somewhat less cool. i moved to china. but, it was still wholly crazily uncharted territory, in the wake of brutal heartbreak, and it has been a skin-shedding complete mindfuck crazy progress of a process. if you need to, let yourself burn down to ashes when you go there. but keep going. embrace it and smell the flowers. i'm honestly excited for you and what you may find.

if it's worth anything, i honestly believe you are doing the right thing
Idk, moving to a different country where you don't know the language seems pretty rad. I'll be fine. I have enough money to last me through at least the end of the year so I don't think I'll burn down to ashes. But living with strangers, not knowing what gonna happen in the coming weeks after I land is scary and will be emotionally tough but I'm convinced it will drive me to constantly want to improve my life because I wont want to be scared forever.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll probably be lonely enough to come back here. I don't want to tell my friend until I'm well into being settled.

 
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if it's worth anything, i honestly believe you are doing the right thing
so do I. not just because Alaska has been on my fantasy-life-list for a long time.

at some point, when you realize the life you live and the place you are in, are making you miserable, or keeping you miserable, AND you have the option to try something else - hell yes, go for it.

 
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