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I am driving to Lubbock through Boise and Salt Lake and probably Albuqurque. Want to drive 8 hours a day and relax in a hotel at night or sightsee along the way. Is there anything to see along that route? I’m going to be on I-84 for 555 miles and I-40 for 255.
Asked by:Andilynn
I’m in a hotel room with my mom and my grandma (we’re all in Boise for a conference thing)…both of them are snoring REALLY loud (like, chainsaw loud), hence the reason I’m on Y!A in the middle of the night. I have to wake up in 2 hours…should I just stay awake until then? I haven’t been able to sleep all night.
What would you do?
I have to put up with this tomorrow night, too! I don’t know if I can take it! I haven’t gotten any sleep in like 4 days because of this!
Is there a way to block out REALLY loud snoring? I’m at my wit’s end! I tried music and everything…these snores penetrate ANY block!
Asked by:Singin’ with the Swing
My husband and I will be stopping in the Boise, Idaho area for a night, and would like to know if anyone can recommend a good restaurant for us. A restaurant that you can only find in Boise. Kinda like “The Onion” is native to Spokane. Anything like that? We’re also looking for some hotel recommendation. Meridian suggestions would be nice also. Thank you.
Asked by:Katrozzi
My mother and I are going to my brother’s wedding up in Idaho this weekend (we live in Missouri). We are flying into Vegas and driving up for the wedding.
My question is two part. First, we already spent over $300 each on our plane tickets (cheaper to fly to Vegas from here than Boise) plus hotel room and can’t afford to give a gift also. Would it be in poor taste if we really can’t get them a gift?
Also, since we were invited to the wedding and reception but have not been invited to the rehearsal dinner, should we assume that we are not invited or assume that we are? Not sure what the etiquette on this is.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
We are looking forward to seeing my brother get married but I feel bad that I really can’t get him anything.
F.Y.I. I was supposed to perform the ceremony but the bride changed her mind. That was going to be my wedding gift to them.
Thanks all!!
Thanks all, I appreciate the feedback, especially from Momsie and Jessica. What part of Idaho Jessica? It’s very pretty up there. I love the Snake River.
Thanks again!!
Asked by:kssmygrits@prodigy.net
“Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the U.S. army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.
“I’m nervous, scared,” Cornell said, wiping puffy eyes beneath his sunglasses Monday at a Savannah hotel after a three-day bus ride from Seattle. “I’m just not a fighter. I know it sounds funny, but I have a really soft heart.”
Cornell, 29, of Mountain Home, Ark., turned himself in to military police Tuesday afternoon at nearby Fort Stewart, where he’ll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005.
Cornell’s lawyer, James Branum of Lawton, Okla., said Cornell was assigned to a unit after meeting with military police, but it was still unclear if the army would hold him in pretrial confinement. “He was visibly shaking when they came to pick him up,” Branum said.
Cornell said he fled because he doesn’t think the war has improved the lives of Iraqis, and he couldn’t stomach the thought of killing.
“During my training, I was ordered that, if anyone came within so many feet of my vehicle, I was to shoot to kill,” said Cornell, who enlisted in 2002 but never deployed to war. “I didn’t join the military to kill innocents.”
The army artillery specialist made it to Canada in 2005 and soon started a new life working at a grocery store on Gabriola Island in British Columbia.
His exile ended last week when he crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Washington state. He left voluntarily to avoid deportation.
Michelle Robidoux, spokeswoman for the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, said the group has worked with about 50 U.S. service members seeking refugee status or political asylum in Canada. The group estimates more than 200 have fled to Canada, most of them hiding out illegally.
“There are probably another three or four who are imminently under threat of deportation, and we’re trying hard to fight that,” Robidoux said.
Parliament passed a non-binding motion in June urging that U.S. military deserters be allowed to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government has changed its stance on sending them back.
During the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans took refuge in Canada, most of them to avoid the military draft. Many were given permanent residence status that led to Canadian citizenship, but the majority went home after then-president Jimmy Carter granted amnesty in the late 1970s.
The U.S. army has listed Cornell as a deserter since a month after he left, but he hasn’t been formally charged with any crimes, said Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson.
“He needs to come and turn himself in, and then the justice process will kick in from there,” Larson said Monday.
The unit Cornell was assigned to when he fled – the 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery Regiment – disbanded in March 2006.
Larson disputed Cornell’s contention that he would have been expected to kill civilians. “Indiscriminately shooting people is not what the army does,” he said. “That’s not how we train and not how we fight.”
Branum said he expects Cornell to be charged with being absent without leave, punishable by up to 18 months in prison, or desertion – a more serious charge with a maximum prison sentence of five years.
The first U.S. service member forced out of Canada after the government denied him protective status as a war objector was 25-year-old army Pte. Robin Long of Boise, Idaho. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison last August after pleading guilty to desertion charges at Fort Carson, Colo.
Branum said he hopes the army shows Cornell some leniency since he avoided the war because of his political convictions.
“This is different from someone leaving for selfish reasons,” Branum said. “This is someone who said, ‘I’m not going to kill civilians.”‘
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Don’t complain about the length of the article, which I posted in its entirety. If there are too many words for you to digest, move on please.
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I mean nice, like really nice. Great room service, maybe even a spa or something on campus. Some sort of Luxury Hotel.
Asked by:Nunya B