Thank you:) I’m leaning toward Turkey because she is okay physically other than not being able to swim, and we will have plenty to do, and then once I’m left to my own devices I can go to a beach town or hop over to Albania easily. I really like the idea of not planning the back half and just sending her on her way and then getting silly by myself after

A lot of what I’ve read online was to skip Dubrovnik because it’s pricey for no reason and the nightlife isn’t enough to make up for it. I know you’re in a relationship and have different proclivities, but if you were a single person and wanted to make out with hot European men at a nightclub would you want to go to Croatia at all, and if so which areas?

Mine is pretty sturdy and does yoga. I don’t think it’ll be the last time she’s mobile, rather the last time I will have enough free time on my hands while she can still travel. I will start residency next year right so it’ll be years until we get another chance, and at that point I’ll have to consider her abilities a lot more. At this point it’s just that I want to not bore her while also wanting to get beachy and slutty myself. In a few years when things are different (she might be slower, I might be in a relationship) I think Alaska would be perfect. It sounds like your momma has passed–I’m sorry but I am glad you had the opportunity to see beautiful things with her.

Too hot for me is Taiwan in the summer–I would have to rest after walking up a flight of stairs and found it very difficult to do anything outside of air-conditioned malls or going up into the mountains (which are unmissable to me for any traveler.) I like the heat in Hawai’i in Jan-March. I just haven’t been everywhere so I don’t know how to compare. Basically anywhere you can throw yourself in the water whenever you overheat. I really like the Balkans suggestion

I’ve never been able to talk myself out of anything. Like I will have the entire thought process and think maybe it’s a bad idea, and I shouldn’t speak my mind, but I really want to so I do. It has not yielded good results

I’ve seen videos of Croatian tourist activities like swimming holes and ziplines and I think that may be the one. And plenty of beautiful city to cover week one. Was thinking about spending one night in Zagreb–>Split–>Dubrovnik, send the madre on her way, and then just wing it by myself once I’ve gotten the lay of the land.
If you have more specific recs I’m all ears

Genuinely laughed out loud

I want to so bad! Are you from there

I do like transit hubs but yeah. I think if we do Costa Rica we’ll pick just one city because she’s older and I don’t want to drive much, and due to the length of her leg of the trip renting a car will be a pain. I certainly don’t want her to drive lol.
I was thinking 3 days nice resort, 3 days sleeping rough-ish, so then she has time for the flights and then the rest will be just me and I can do anything by myself

Which aren’t environmentally devastating?

Bless you

You need a massage babe

Kinda wanted to just have some people weigh in instead of using a tool. I can research it myself but I like it when people share anecdotes. I got lost though

You delete it.

Yup. I should be executed in the town square

Yeah I fucked up. Promise it wasn’t on purpose I’m just sleep-deprived

Omfg I’m so embarrassed

Thought it was where you can yap about yourself, is it not?

When I was in med school assisting in circumcisions (didn’t want to, had to) the doctor said that the baby screaming was not proof that he felt pain, and demonstrated it by poking the baby and showing that he cried as a response to that. Absolutely nonsensical for a supposedly intelligent person to say. The cry was vastly different from the circ and a poke. It was an excuse not to use local anesthesia or justify the whole process I guess.
The funny part is that that when I was on OBGYN at a different hospital, and when I was at my home hospital on peds, the pediatricians did circumcisions. So I got twice as many circumcisions as my classmates. Some of them could have theoretically attended zero if their schedule was flipped and they were on peds at the OBGYN circumcising hospital and on OBGYN at the peds circumcising hospital. I can’t understand why someone would claim someone else doesn’t feel pain. I wish we had a machine that could make someone feel for a second what you feel so that it stops being minimized or disbelieved.

Wym not all AI data centers?