Don't know where you're shopping, but at the stores around me, the cheapest foods are grains and sugars, followed by meat, with fresh produce being the most expensive. As long as you're not stuck on buying prime fillet and ribeye, it shouldn't be too bad. 

This is really good advice and something I forgot to add. It’s something I take for granted as common sense, but it probably does need to be said. Wear your leash!

That’s pretty common if you’re not used to balancing on an unstable surface. There are some exercises and ways to train your body to get better at it. It takes some practice. The people who do it all the time make it look annoyingly effortless, but rest assured, they’ve fallen too.

A few tips from someone with some experience paddling in the ocean:

Does no one in this thread have a strainer that goes in the pot so you just pull out the pasta and leave the water in the pot, or do you all have something against it? 

It’s a pretty common item on kid’s menus. Kid’s menus are usually pretty awful. I’d rather just order an extra appetizer/side and/or share food from my plate with the little one, but some people seem to think it’s best to give kids the blandest foods possible to ensure that they’ll be picky eaters.

Voices would keep me awake. Even if it was an awful podcast, I’d be trying to listen to what’s being said or get annoyed and turn it off.

I guess it depends on how you define the terms and categorize things. There's definitely some overlap and room for different viewpoints. I see those all as different categories so I’d give different answers for each was my original point. If someone were to ask about one of those terms I’d give answers based on my loos…

No. I’m interested in beer, wine, and food from around the world. For recreation, I like water sports and spending time at the beach. For entertainment I read, like very specific types of music, and occasionally watch movies. Very different topics. 

I live in a tourist destination frequented by midwesterners and Canadians. I constantly face those situations where you meet someone and have the same conversation you’ve had 100 times before. You already know what the next question will be. Yep, I live xx, grew up xx, job is xx, relationship status is xx.... I don't…

Yeah, family being a safe topic is a 50/50 shot, at best. Sure, I love to talk about my toddler and annoyingly overhare pics and videos if you ask. A few years ago though, family was the last thing I wanted to talk about.

Haven't flown out of Italy, but I'd put Japanese airport food up against anything else in terms of quality and freshness. 

Ok that, but with a cloyingly sweet honey mustard that wasn’t mentioned in the menu - Gordon Biersch HNL.

After multiple bad experiences, I’ve successfully avoided that place for a decade now. It’s good to know that there are good dining options next time I get stuck there.

DFW has much better options than Chilis, but you do you.

At OGG (Maui, Kahului) the best food is, there’s no reason to be sitting at this airport long enough to need food.

It’s more of an introduced or non-native than invasive species. Invasive usually refers to something that spreads rapidly and has more of a significant negative impact on the environment.

Overgrazing of cattle can be a problem, but a lot of the sediment load is coming from developments and unmaintained roads and terrace systems on the fallow/abandoned plantation lands. Dirt bike and ATV trails are another source.  

They sailed on large double hulled sailing canoes from other parts of Polynesia (likely originating in Tahiti). The Polynesians sailed all over the Pacific reaching as far East as Rapa Nui (Easter island) and possibly even the continent of South America. In the 70s a group of Hawaiians built a canoe and sailed to…

It has nothing to do with western science ignoring solutions. It’s that the solutions don’t fit with the business practices of the past century. We’ve known how wetlands work for a long time, but ecology and the environment took a backseat to military, corporate agriculture, and tourism interests for the last 100…