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3,000 Miles
I've been asked a few times about how we managed a move across the United States, and after it came up again in the comments of my "Suggestion Box" post, figured it is time to outline all of it. So, if you're getting ready to take the plunge and move, here is how we did it. This is our personal story, and the way we did it worked for us. I'd love to hear your story or what you did was differently for your move.
The first step to anything of this magnitude is to have a dream. When most of us have a dream, it is something we visualize, wish for, and think about quite a bit. I think dreaming about our move to California was what kept me going during the actual moving process, because that is what I couldn't lose sight of.
Our dream of moving from New Hampshire actually started with the desire to move to a warmer climate with good jobs. One of my closest friends lives in North Carolina, and Big Daddy and I actually went for a little scouting mission down there to check it out. It was something that was on our radar big time. Then we went to San Diego in 2011, and everything changed. The dream of living in California was stuck in our heads, and that was it. We were hooked. So, we spent a couple years discussing the dream, and how to make it a real possibility. We knew we were still a ways away from being able to do it, because Big Daddy was earning a college degree, and then all the Lyme stuff started. But, we discussed San Diego frequently and touched base often about us still wanting the same outcome.
Plan of Action
The actual plan came about in October of 2013. Big Daddy and I took Poppy to San Diego for a vacation. We rented the same condo at the beach that we had stayed in during our trip in 2011 (Poppy didn't go on that trip with us.) Before we left for our 2013 trip, Big Daddy and I made a pact that we were not going to let ourselves use this trip as a scouting mission. We just wanted to show San Diego to Poppy, have a good time, and enjoy being there.
What we didn't expect was how much Poppy was going to love it. In New Hampshire, Poppy was getting to the point where he wouldn't go outside very much. We were all afraid of ticks, and finding them on us. On vacation in CA, he was outside constantly, and loved the ocean. We had an awesome week, and on the way to the airport, Poppy was upset to leave. We were, too.
When we arrived back in NH, Big Daddy and I stayed pretty quiet about our trip for a few days while we got back into daily life after vacation. But, when we finally talked about it, we admitted that we were both feeling the pull to move more and more, and decided it was time to make a plan of action.
We had a few things to work through.
* Big Daddy was working towards finishing his college degree, and had a few more classes.
* We had a basement remodel going on that needed to be finished enough to be able to stop and put the house on the market.
* Big Daddy would need to have a job lined up before we even think about this move.
* Most importantly, we had a son that was going to have a major life change. He is very close to my parents, and we would need to be mindful of his relationship with them.
So, we tackled all this slowly. We knew that things would have to happen in a very specific order. We didn't set a timeline, we only set the order. Time would be dictated by when Big Daddy would land a job, and we had no idea how long that would take. We did the things that we could as we could.
Big Daddy continued to work hard on his studies, and set the goal of graduating in May of 2014. Since we were making this plan in November of 2013, we had it in our minds that once he graduated, the job search would begin.
Between November '13 and May '14, Big Daddy studied. I worked on going through all of our stuff. Anything that we no longer used or needed was donated or sold on Craigslist. Let me tell you, we are not pack rats at all, but we got rid of a lot of stuff. To anyone that is thinking about moving anytime in the next couple years, it is never too late to start sorting out your stuff. It is a stressful and sometimes emotional process, so give it time to do this. No matter how easy and short you think this process will be, I can tell you that you need to work on this every spare minute you have. Moving day comes fast!
The things you're keeping? If you don't need it in the foreseeable future, pack it. Yes, you read that correctly. Pack it in a box and seal it up. Number the box. Keep a notebook with what you have in that box. Then when you need it or are looking for it, you can look in your notebook and know where it is. Also handy when making inventory for your moving truck.
Our house started to look very clean and sparse. It made it easier during move time, both physically and emotionally, because we were much more prepared.
We also finished the major parts of the renovation, and got down to the small stuff. We were finishing the "small stuff" right up until the night before we moved out of the house. Don't underestimate how much time it is going to take you to do the little things. Patching nail holes, wiping down trim, etc. It is a big job.
As we worked through the winter, we talked to Poppy a few times about the possibility of moving to California. He began to warm up to the idea, and as he had questions, we thought of solutions. Like being able to bring all his toys vs. leaving things behind. He did not leave any of his things behind… kids need their things! We also worked on how to manage the feelings of missing his grandparents. Visits, Skype, letters, etc. were solutions that we discussed. He had a few months to process all this, and we kept him in the loop so nothing was a surprise when it happened.
Fast forward to May, 2014. Big Daddy graduated on May 10th.
On May 11th, he did his resume and started sending it out into the world, and posting it on the sites that tech people use to network. On Monday, May 12th, Big Daddy got a call from the job that was eventually offered to him in San Diego. We never would have imagined that the job would have happened that fast.
Once he accepted the position, we had about a month to make the move. We used a pod system for our belongings that were going to California, and scheduled all that as soon as we knew. The summer is the busiest and most expensive time to move, so once we knew our dates, we booked things.
To back up a tiny bit, in May, when things really stated to happen, I printed out empty calendar pages and started using them to map out the moving details. There are many many things that you need to think about:
~ Are you going to sell or rent your house?
~ Pets – are they coming with you? Vet visits are necessary before you leave. Will they fly? Will you hire a service to drive them across the country? Will you drive them across the country?
~ Doctors – notify your doctors once you know you are moving. Depending on what is happening with your health insurance, you will need to make sure you have enough of your medications. BIG NOTE! Not all medications can be called in to out of state pharmacies. Be sure to check on your meds. Many mental health medications can only be called in to the pharmacy in the same state as the doc that prescribes it. In our case, we had family that would pick up the meds and mail them to us in CA. You don't want to be without your prescriptions. Also, start researching doctors as soon as you know you are moving.
~~~~ Another tip… if you have family that can help you with meds, or mail from your old address, etc., we found that leaving priority mail envelopes with postage already on them was a huge help. Then family just popped whatever needed to be sent to us in the envelope and were on the way to us. Hotels will hold mail for you as long as you are a registered guest. This was very handy.
~ Credit cards – if you are moving, you will want to notify your credit card companies. I called each one and let them know that we did not have a permanent address in CA yet, but I didn't want to have our cards be denied as we were traveling if the credit card companies thought the card had been stolen. They can note your account.
~ Homeowners insurance – Be sure to notify them you are not in your house anymore. Most companies have different policies if your home is vacant while on the market or if you are renting it out.
~ All important papers need to travel with you. In our case, Big Daddy and his brother drove the pets and one of our vehicles to CA. They had the safe in the vehicle with them, which contained our trust documents, and other important papers that would be very difficult to replace.
~ We shipped of our cars. Best decision ever. The cost of driving a car is almost equivalent to driving and hotels, food, etc. Unless you have time for "adventure" on your move, I highly recommend shipping vehicles. Because of our pets not being able to fly, one of the vehicles was driven, one was shipped.
~ I do not travel well. Poppy and I opted to fly to meet Big Daddy once he arrived in California. It was not an easy trip because I get sick when I fly, but Poppy and I made the trip by air.
Living Arrrangements in Our New State ~
We decided while still in NH that we were going to look for housing once we got to CA. San Diego County is HUGE – and unless you are here, and familiar with the area, it can be very deceiving looking at a map and thinking that "this is close to work, the commute won't be bad." WRONG. A few miles on a map can take an hour here. We had friends that gave us some guidance on where to book our hotel so we could get the feel for the area and Big Daddy's commute once we were here. So glad we did this.
We were here about a week and a half before we found the house that we are renting. We were really lucky to find a place. The rental market in San Diego is extremely competitive, and in my opinion, it is not wise to buy immediately when you get to a new area. We looked at three places before we found out that we were approved to rent this house.
Our pod (we used "Pack Rat") was at a storage facility about 20 miles from our rental house. We called as soon as we knew our move-in date and scheduled delivery. Make sure if you use a pod-type container that your new neighborhood or HOA allows them to be parked in your driveway. Also, make sure your driveway is long enough! San Diego does not allow these to be parked on the street in front of your house for any length of time, so take this into consideration. Some people end up renting a truck and unloading their pods in the warehouse of the pod company. Just something to be mindful of. Luckily, our 15′ pod fit in our driveway and we are not part of an HOA, so we had no issues, but one of the houses we looked at did have restrictions about this.
And there you have it. Easy, right? No. But, we kept our eye on the dream, and made it a reality. We could not have done it without the love and support of family and friends, and for that we are eternally thankful. We miss all of them, and we were fortunate that we have had visitors already, which I wrote about in other posts.
It is a lot of change, but I don't regret it for one second. San Diego is much more in line with how we live our lives. People love to be outdoors and healthy food. Great social activities, great sense of community, and so much to do here! I love NH, and that is where I was born and raised, but I feel like I am truly home now.
Summary of My Biggest Tips:
** Dream, Discuss, and Plan!
** Sort out your stuff. Pack what you're keeping but won't need anytime soon, and donate/sell the rest! Number your boxes and inventory the boxes in a notebook.
** Be ready to move once the job offer comes!
** Keep a calendar and map out all the details. You will need this to keep your sanity!
I hope this post is helpful to anyone that is looking to move to a different state. Please let me know if there are any questions you have that I may not have answered.
Suggestion Box
It happens to all of us in blog land at some point – writer's block.
So, I am asking you – all of you – no matter how long you have been following my blog, and no matter which of the many topics bring you here – can you leave me a comment with topic suggestions? Do you have questions? Your suggestions can be serious or silly! Have fun with this!
I thank you for your contributions, and your participation.
Happy Saturday
Hope you enjoy my first vlog. Very short, but trying this for the first time!
Need a Fast Dinner Idea?
I was looking into the abyss that is my fridge yesterday morning, trying to see what we had that could be used to put together a meal for the evening. I had an avocado, a fully cooked chicken breast from our rotisserie dinner the night before, guacamole, and sour cream. My mission was clear. We needed some kind of Mexican dinner, and I decided to try making my own version of Chipotle's burrito bowl. After a run to the grocery store to pick up a few things I got to work! I am going to attempt to write out a recipe. Go easy on me – I am still learning to cook, and it takes me a bit to prepare things.
Almost Chipotle Burrito Bowl (for 2 people)
2 cooked chicken breasts
Juice of one lime
Cilantro to taste
1 small tomato
1 cup of corn
1 can black beans
1/4 cup guacamole
sour cream
2 cups shredded chicken
1/2 cup cooked rice
1 avocado, cubed
2 cups shredded lettuce (I used iceberg)
Bake the chicken, seasoning with salt and pepper, or flavor it up with some the packets that have all the spices to make chili or tacos. Set aside to cool.
Next, make your rice like you normally do, but squeeze the juice of one lime into the water while it is boiling. Also add a little cilantro to taste when it is done cooking. Set aside.
At this point, I heated the black beans, thawed some frozen corn, and cubed up the rest of the veggies, shredded some lettuce, and then shredded the chicken. I put it all out on the counter and we made our burrito bowls how we wanted.
This took my about a half hour to prep because I used leftover chicken. If I made it again (which I definitely will), I don't think it would take this long to get everything ready.
Let me know if you try making this and what you did differently! Happy Friday!


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Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013
|Photo by Robin May
|Karma co-owner Danny Smith, left, listens as attorney
Jean Ouellet defends the club.
Jean Ouellet has a tough job: defending the indefensible — arguably the most violent bar in downtown Lafayette.
The French-Canadian transplant and past president of Festival International de Louisiane appeared a trifle fidgety on Monday, Sept. 23, in the City-Parish Council auditorium as a hearing before the state Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control was getting under way. It would be a grueling, at-times contentious affair as Ouellet, the attorney representing Karma nightclub on Jefferson Street, squared off against the proverbial Powers That Be — powers that want to rid downtown Lafayette of the bitch called Karma. The shortest route to doing that is to revoke the club's license to sell booze. That's what the hearing was about.
On the other side were reps from the Lafayette Police Department, chevrons resplendent and shoes shined to a sparkle, as well as adversaries representing Lafayette Consolidated Government, the Downtown Development Authority, Downtown Lafayette Unlimited, residents and business owners from the CBD. On Ouellet's side, four dudes with an ownership stake in Karma and a couple of foam-board exhibits. It was lonely on his side of the room.
And they came in succession, each bearing a nail for Karma's coffin.
Police Chief Jim Craft: "The venue is hip hop. Any clubs that have the hip hop venue generally we have more problems with than the clubs that don't have that type of venue," he told ATC Commissioner Troy Hebert, the affable former state senator appointed to the post by Gov. Bobby Jindal. "Some of the problems we've had are fights, batteries, we had shootings, we had some stabbings when the club is pushing the people outside [at closing time]; they've openly smoked marijuana in there — there's drug use in there. We've conducted investigations and confirmed that."
Cité des Arts' Dr. Maureen Brennan: "What's really happened to us and most places, theater crowds are mostly older crowds, and we're losing that group. They're afraid to come down."
Past DDA Chairman/attorney Blake David: "Karma has been nothing but trouble for as long as I can remember. In 2010 they got their license revoked, and just this year I think there's been 52 different arrests in that bar. ...Police officers have told us personally they're afraid to go in there and make an arrest because they're not sure what's going to happen. That's the situation."
And so it went, inexorably, for roughly two thirds of the three-hour hearing. Ouellet was reprimanded several times by Hebert for behaving like an attorney — that is, being adversarial toward those testifying against his client. (Hebert had characterized the hearing as a "fact-finding mission.") On a few occasions Ouellet made reference to police calls at other bars, and Hebert admonished him, reminding the attorney that the hearing was about Karma, not the other bars. When it was revealed that the in-house video surveillance system at Karma was malfunctioning last July on the night of an alleged shooting in the club, Hebert quipped with sarcasm, "That conveniently happens from time to time when there's a shooting," and a chuckle rippled through the audience.
|Photo by Robin May
|Members of law enforcement, DDA and other groups attend the ATC
hearing hoping for Karma's demise.
Sitting beside Hebert was Jessica Starns, a prosecutor for Hebert's agency. She and the commissioner more or less worked in tandem during the hearing, or it at least appeared that way. But in a month or so — probably mid-November — after ATC has completed its own investigation, the parties to this trouble will be summoned to Baton Rouge for a "trial" over whether Karma should maintain its liquor license, and Hebert will serve as "judge" to hear Starns' case against Karma.
(A bit of back story here: the city revoked Karma's liquor license in 2010 after the club accrued 12 points in a 12-month period. Points are "awarded" for various criminal offenses at establishments that sell liquor, and a dozen points trigger a punitive hearing. The City-Parish Council upheld the revocation, but Karma obtained an injunction from a federal judge and has effectively been operating with its license in limbo ever since. At the same time, Karma and two other downtown clubs filed a federal lawsuit against the city challenging the city's practice of charging bars a levy to help defray the overtime cost for police details downtown on weekend nights. In response to the lawsuit, the council suspended the levy pending the outcome of an October 2014 trial over the policy.)
At the hearing, Hebert questioned the Karma owners who were present: Danny Smith, who serves as the general manager of the club; Dennis Talbot, Chance Delome and Mike Parich. (Co-owner Robert Oja was not present.)
It was all pretty standard government hearing stuff, although in his zeal to get the facts Hebert did seem, at times, to already have made his mind up about Karma.
|Karma on a typical Saturday night
But co-owner Parich's testimony was striking, not for what he said but for what he intimated: "I believe it's more of an issue of people don't want the clientele around more than it is an issue of what happens. All these issues happen downtown on a nightly basis," Parich said.
Ouch. He went there. Almost.
In a follow-up conversation after the hearing, Ouellet doesn't hesitate to discuss what he calls, with probably an unintentional adjective, "the white elephant in the room."
"I appreciate the testimony of some of the people that came and said that their business had been impacted by the presence of Karma," he says. "The question remains, is their business impacted by the presence of Karma or is their business impacted by the presence of a thousand African-American, 20-year-old, young adults on a Saturday night? That's the question."
Groan. Do we really have to talk about this?
Ouellet thinks we do, and he doesn't buy the argument that Karma and its patrons are negatively impacting businesses in the area, most of which are closed by the time the Karma crowd begins arriving somewhere south of 10:30 p.m.
"If you own a restaurant, at 10:30 it's closed," he argues. "It's over, they're gone — people are gone."
Ouellet is also quick to make a case — the one Hebert wouldn't let him make at the Sept. 23 hearing — that relative to other bars downtown, the majority of which are much smaller, Karma is comparatively harmless. Let's call it the "per capita" argument. "If you do the math and you think about the fact that there has been one shooting in a club where approximately 250,000 patrons went through the door in the last four years, it's not bad at all," he says. "In fact, it's a tremendous job. There are other clubs in Lafayette that have a way worse record."
According to Ouellet's numbers — figures we vetted with the Lafayette Police Department's Office of Alcohol and Noise Control, or ATAC as it's called — there have been 54 criminal incidents that can be reasonably attributed to Karma going back to the beginning of 2010. (The aggregate number of calls for police service at the addresses the clubs occupy is generally much higher, but the ATAC office studies the police reports and filters out most of the incidents as merely incidental to those addresses.) Karma's capacity is just over 1,300. By contrast, Bootlegger's, a small bar two blocks up Jefferson Street, had 25 criminal incidents going back to the beginning of 2010. But Bootleggers' capacity is 160, and according to Ouellet's reasoning, Bootleggers is much more a per capita or per capacity nuisance, with a police call-per patron rate of 15.63 percent versus Karma's rate of 4.13. In fact, by Ouellet's accounting, Karma is less of a nuisance than City Bar (capacity 274/15.33 percent), Nite Town (826/5.45), Marley's (226/13.27) and Bootlegger's.
"It's amazing," Ouellet says. "It's people [complaining] that have never been to [Karma] that have very strong feelings about it."
However, Tim Melancon, ATAC's manager, says that's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. "I think you can massage statistics in many different ways to give you a picture of how you want someone to perceive something. And certainly he's looking at it in one way," Melancon says of Ouellet. "I think to get a clearer picture of what is happening in there, you would not only want to look at just raw numbers of incidences, but the severity of the type of incident. If you take a look at the number of potential felony-type incidences versus felony-type incidences in those other businesses, you would see that Karma is heavy on those types of violations."
Melancon is correct: Breaking down the numbers by incidents involving firearms, aggravated battery and stabbing since early 2010 suggests Karma is a much more violent club, with 24 such incidents compared to only two for Nite Town, Bootlegger's and City Bar, and zero for Marley's.
We — this newspaper, I mean — aren't defending Karma or arguing that it belongs in downtown Lafayette. We can't say that it does. It is incongruent with its environment — a mega club in a relatively confined, historic business district with narrow streets and inadequate parking.
But it's there. It opened legally. The city's planning department OK'd it. Permits were issued. The owners pay their lease, meet health and fire codes and play by the rules established by the community. (At the request of police, Karma even agreed to shut down 15 minutes early each night — at 1:45 a.m. — to help police get a jump on crowd control.)
Karma, its patrons, the police and downtown Lafayette would no doubt be better served if the club were elsewhere, in an area that can accommodate such a behemoth, surrounded by a sea of concrete for parking and ready access to major traffic arteries. But it isn't. It's in an old furniture store across from a mom-and-pop diner, a hair salon and a yoga studio in a downtown that was wheezing with decrepitude and neglect just 20 years ago. Karma is, perhaps as much as anything, an example of being careful what you wish for. We wanted to revitalize downtown Lafayette, to energize its night life, and now we risk electrocution.
|Photo by Robin May
|ATC Commissioner Troy Hebert
The staff and publishers of this newspaper know virtually everyone involved on the anti-Karma side of this affair. We are friends with many of them. None is racist. Not one. No way.
But the Downtown Development Authority for example, which is the most battle-tested veteran in the war against Karma, represents scores of downtown business owners who get an earful from hundreds if not thousands more customers, clients and patrons. What is filtering up to DDA before it is distilled into color-blind concern? Could part of it possibly be a heretofore white downtown uncomfortable with a thousand young black people partying in the district on a Saturday night? That's a question this community needs to answer. Honestly.
"If Karma closes down, where are these thousand African-American kids going to go?" Ouellet wonders aloud. "Do these people really think that these African-American kids are going to disappear?"
So what to do? There might not be much the city can do because Ouellet has something of enormous value in his hip pocket: Brossette V. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It's a 20-year-old Louisiana Supreme Court ruling out of Baton Rouge that basically says a city cannot yank a liquor license or shutter a bar where criminal activity occurs if the bar owner can prove he has taken reasonable steps to curb said activity.
Ouellet thinks he can prove that in the case of Karma.
But here's the kicker: Assuming ATC rules against it and its appeals fail at the district court, appellate and supreme court levels, Karma could conceivably surrender its liquor license and stay in business. I would use an exclamation point right there but my editor doesn't allow them.
"We do not sell a lot of alcohol — the numbers are not significant," Ouellet says. "These kids do not go there to get drunk; they go there to dance. And we are running the numbers and wondering if it would not be a more profitable business if that would be the case. We don't know the answer to that.
"If we go to the district court, court of appeal, Supreme Court and then they shut us down, we might just give them the license and say, 'Here you go. Come on kids, come dance.'"
NOV 26 Zach Kopplin, who we came to know and love when he was a Louisiana high school student lobbying for the continued inclusion of science stuff in science class, pens this post in The Atlantic about a "textbook" available for social studies instruction in Texas that discusses how Moses contributed to the Constitution. (Oy! Texas rednecks love Jews. Who knew?)
NOV 26 Finally, mad people on the interwebz is a good thing! World wide webby outrage has caused the village of Moreauville to reverse its plan to confiscate pit bulls and Rottweillers and euthanize them simply because of their breed, WAFB reports here. The plan? They're going to enforce the leash law. Well, that would have been a good place to start.
NOV 26 Jim Brown, like many of us Louisiana voters, seems fed up with out of town know-it-alls trying to tell us what to do. Bill Cassidy can't make it through the day without flying someone in to "tell us political retards" how to vote, he says.
NOV 26 Blogger Tom Aswell is writing about the behavior of the two finalists in the 6th Congressional District race: Edwin Edwards and Garret Graves. Edwards has come out swinging, but Graves' campaign seems bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Tom says.
NOV 26 Blogger CB Forgotston is confused, he says, because Governor Bobby Jindal said higher education wouldn't get cut, but it looks like it is being cut. CB's asking: When is a cut not a cut?
NOV 26 Unless you're in Virigina, you shouldn't count on seeing our Governor on Election Day. Mark Ballard writes in the Advocate's political blog that Bobby will be appearing at a GOP love fest of some kind there, instead of spending the day here.
NOV 26 This post on The Lens takes a look at the ongoing dispute in New Orleans over the banners about the upcoming tax election for the school system. The banners are hanging on schools, and some feel they are promotional, which is not allowed, instead of educational - which is allowed.
NOV 26 Not all college students are focused on football games and parties at this time of year. This post on DIG Baton Rouge recounts an LSU student group that tries to make sure that those who are hungry and homeless are not forgotten by those of us who aren't.
NOV 25 Edwin Edwards took off the gloves on Monday, this post on WAFB tells us. At a Press Club appearance, he wondered how his 6th Congressional District opponent, Garret Graves, could be an expert in all the areas in which he claims to be - when he has no college degree in anything. (Five years - FIVE YEARS - in college, but no degree. Huh?)
NOV 25 Blogger Mike Deshotels offers this primer on predatory charter schools and how they operate, specifically in Louisiana. They're not just profiting from our tax dollars, they're using children and shortchanging them to do so, Deshotels says.
NOV 25 Here's a link to the petition that has been created to save Zeus, a family dog who is targeted for death by the learned fathers of the Avoyelles Parish village of Moreauville. They passed an ordinance based on nothing that outlaws pit bulls and Rotweillers. As of Tuesday morning, the petition had more than 230,000 signatures - a number that's a wee bit higher than the village population of 929.

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We want to let all in the sailing community know that you have a shark in your midst. Womanship.com, a worldwide sailing company that professes it can lead anyone on a learning adventure contracted with our group of 11 and 12 year old Girl Scouts on the Chesapeake Bay in June, 2012. We spent time coming to an agreed upon itinerary that led to us putting down a $1400.00 deposit on May 2nd. Since that time, Womanship suspended communication and did not respond to any of our appeals to get information regarding our upcoming trip. Our six Girl Scouts had to sell thousands of cookies to fund this trip, only to be disappointed and be left ashore. To add insult to injury, they continue to ignore all requests for a refund. If our experience is any indication of their business practices, do not spend any time or money on this company! The sailing community needs to spread the word! Don't believe us? Look on TripAdvisior, Yahoo Travel, Cruisers Forum, Yelp, Sailing School Reviewer to name a few!!!
Womanship - worldwide sailing company - keeps Girl Scout Money
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Too bad you didn't see the complaints until you had paid them.
But - this should easily fall within small claims court and they might even return your money as soon as they see that you have filed against them.
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Go to your Girl Scout council and get something on the letterhead, they either have staff there or at Girl Scout headquarters to help you out. Go to the media -- your local tv station should have a consumer reporter. This will make great tv esp. with GS in uniforms talking about selling cookies fort the trip that never happened.
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We are working on all of those suggestions - getting the word out!!! Call them yourselves - lots of pressure will help! Thanks for everything!!!
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I am in GS and we have to do so much paperwork to go anywhere. Also, we are not allowed to go on any water trip, even class I rapids without it being a "GS Approved Outfitter." And in my experience, Outfitters don't run away with people's money.
In my area, had we wanted to take our girls back east and go on a boating trip like that, we would likely have to get an approval from say,the Maryland Council of GS that this outfitter is approved....I just don't even see how your paperwork got through the mill.
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"Call them yourselves..." No. A person cannot effectively complain about an experience they didn't have.
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Did you have the benefit/foresight of paying it by credit card. Contest it.
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If all those travel websites gave the company bad reviews, I don't understand how you ended up booking with them in the first place.
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Don't blame the victim! Womanship is a disreputable company that has cheated a lot of good people.
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Climate Action: A consensus of the sensible can beat polluters' PR
Six steps the world should take to fight climate change
Last month, the most thorough scientific review of climate science in history was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, confirmation of clear, dangerous and present epochal changes in our planet drowned in the noisy coverage of the UK's carnival-esque party conferences, the US Government shutdown, and coquettish phone calls between Americans and Iranians.
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As a result, a renewed push for concrete climate action never materialised whereas we should have had a mobilisation of citizens and civil society around concrete, immediate and decisive policies rooted in the scientific and economic rigor of the IPCC report.
What should these climate action policies – 'a consensus of the sensible' if you will – look like?
First, governments should lighten the load on citizens' wallets by phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. Tax payers worldwide pay for climate change twice, once by subsidising dirty fuels to the tune of $1.9 trillion per year (the conservative estimate from the IMF), then again by footing the bill for extreme weather events, floods and droughts fuelled by a changing climate. Releasing some $2 trillion per year of funding is likely to go most of the way, if not all the way, in paying for solutions to climate change and for adaptation strategies.
Second, natural capital should be priced into companies' financial performance. Today, economic performance is judged by imperfect markets without any regard to the usage of precious natural resources. As a result, some "profitable" companies and "growing" economies are in fact monsters greedily ignoring the needs of future generations. For example, we already know that some 80 per cent of known fossil reserves cannot be extracted without extremely serious consequences across our economies, yet stock markets continue to assign value to companies on the basis of these reserves, without taking into account the consequences of extracting them. That's nonsense and the minute it stops, much more capital will flow to opportunities that are correctly priced, for example renewable energy.
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