El Salvador

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I have a question for both the Marriott Gold and chicken bus posters: how are you both able to travel so much? Are you travel bloggers or something? Can’t imagine taking so many trips

Can we please not encourage either of these folks to continue derailing this thread with their nonsense? Neither poster seems to be well.

And what advice do YOU have to offer on El Salvador?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I have a question for both the Marriott Gold and chicken bus posters: how are you both able to travel so much? Are you travel bloggers or something? Can’t imagine taking so many trips

DP and neither the chicken bus lady or Marriott gold. As far as how they travel so much, they are both rich. They will probably come back and say they aren’t but that will be untrue. They are both clearly well traveled and both seem to know what they are talking about. They just have different perspectives based on age. One seems younger fwiw.

[Anonymous]

You’ve got to be kidding about traveling to El Salvador. Check the state department warnings for God’s sake. The gang activity and killings there are sky high. Why on earth?

[Anonymous]

Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

This is grotesque on SO many levels. Confirmation that you’re deranged!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

This is grotesque on SO many levels. Confirmation that you’re deranged!

How so? I don't see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

How were you able to get rich enough to retire early if you traveled so much during your working years? Or are you trust fund babies?

[Anonymous]

Chicken Bus Lady, are you also that tiresome Fulbright “NOT teaching, RESEARCH” Lady?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

How were you able to get rich enough to retire early if you traveled so much during your working years? Or are you trust fund babies?

LOL, no, not at all. The opposite, in fact. We just made travel a priority. And obviously we've been traveling more since we stopped working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken Bus Lady, are you also that tiresome Fulbright “NOT teaching, RESEARCH” Lady?

Ha ha, no. But I've seen her posts as well. And laugh every time.

[Anonymous]

After 10 pages of this, I think I’m team chicken bus lady. MGM (marriot gold malta) seems so mean! Chicken bus is just humble bragging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 10 pages of this, I think I’m team chicken bus lady. MGM (marriot gold malta) seems so mean! Chicken bus is just humble bragging.

You can’t be team yourself gallina.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 10 pages of this, I think I’m team chicken bus lady. MGM (marriot gold malta) seems so mean! Chicken bus is just humble bragging.

Well done! Love the name. I'll use it in a sentence:

MGM has issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 10 pages of this, I think I’m team chicken bus lady. MGM (marriot gold malta) seems so mean! Chicken bus is just humble bragging.

You can’t be team yourself gallina.

Nice try, MGM. But I wasn't posting at 1:14 am. You really need to give this a rest. All you're doing is confirming my "ex pats are weirdos" hypothesis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all. Chicken Bus Lady here. Honestly, I haven't been on this thread for days and some prior posts have been wrongly attributed to me -- but I'm not going to try and clean them up. Why bother.

To answer one the questions asked above, yes, I'm rich (and early retired) but that's not why and how I've always traveled and even now when we travel we never, ever travel "rich." Our typical trip before covid got in the way was to pick a country to explore for about a month, started each trip staying at true budget places and moving up to nicer places as the trip progresses. We rarely go "luxury," though, and never do all-inclusives or big resorts or chain hotels. We will never be Marriott Gold members because that is definitely not our style.

Before we became rich and early retired we always traveled abroad though. When we had kids we traveled with them, and before that we both studied abroad -- both the junior year thing but also grad school under well known graduate fellowships. It's just something we've always done and have always been comfortable doing.

I'm not surprised to hear that Marriott Gold has chosen to live abroad, honestly. In our experience, an unusually large percentage of Americans (and Canadians, ha ha) who choose to do that are weirdos. We do our best to avoid expats when we travel abroad.

How were you able to get rich enough to retire early if you traveled so much during your working years? Or are you trust fund babies?

LOL, no, not at all. The opposite, in fact. We just made travel a priority. And obviously we've been traveling more since we stopped working.

This doesn’t answer the question though and is a total deflection.