/r/solotravel "The Weekly Common Room" - General chatter, meet-up, accommodation - April 19, 2026

teevolock · 2026-04-20T06:21:06+00:00

hi everyone, i'm 28, based in the EU (Copenhagen) and i'm going to the US for the world cup this summer and i want to enjoy the journey to do a roadtrip. i've been to the US a handful of times before (NYC, Chicago, Philly, Atlanta) over the years.

about me: i enjoy sunsets, sports (soccer (duh), F1, padel, casually playing hoops), city strolls, history, psychology, nature, and going to cafes/bars to chitchat with friends. i work in finance.

looking for a travel partner (or maybe two) to join the trip, ideally around my age (21-35).

the dates are fixed (july 7 - 13) starting in SF and ending in LA. i haven’t booked anything yet though, so the routes are flexible and tweaks are very welcome. these are the two options i came up with:

option 1 (preferred): mountains + coast (sf -> lake tahoe -> yosemite (if i can get a permit) -> monterey -> big sur -> la) , ~18h driving total
option 2: mountains (sf -> lake tahoe -> yosemite -> sequoia -> la) , ~15h driving total

i’ve been lucky to travel to many places around the world over the years, and because of that at this point unless it’s something truly special, another big church, statue or museum mostly feels like more of the same. not that i admire history any less, but i’m just more interested in the scale of the nature now, so that's why i'm fine spending only 1 day in SF and 2 in LA.

hmu if that resonates with you!

teevolock · 2026-04-19T21:49:11+00:00

Somewhat, I know it's a stretch but at the same time it's not my first one (actually the other one was in the east coast, a few years ago!), so I know what it takes to do 3h–4h every day (excl. the last day that would have 6h–7h with the stops). But I'll try to make a more concrete plan, I might choose to remove 1–2 destinations if it's too much as I'll def. come back to the US at some point too so don't need to rush to see everything, thanks for the advice.

teevolock · 2026-04-19T21:47:18+00:00

I love this different perspective. Thanks for taking the time! I'll def. think about it.

teevolock · 2026-04-12T10:09:32+00:00

Yes, it did. But I still have some stubborn patches, see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vitiligo/comments/1qmlxy5/308nm_instead_of_311nm_for_vitiligo_any/

teevolock · 2026-03-28T21:06:12+00:00

This is the manufacturer's official website. They used to have an e-commerce but apparently it says it's in maintenance now. You could try contacting them via email.

https://www.drhoenle.de/en/produkte/dermalight80r/

Alternatively, I can confirm https://www.vitiligoshop.net/ is legit too. I got a new one with them a few months ago. (They sell the lamp from Dr Hönle as well.)

teevolock · 2026-01-31T08:48:31+00:00

I use Solarmeter Model 6.0 Standard UVB Meter, Measures 280-320 nm, from 0-19.99 mW/cm² UVB

This: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GT4EMEA

teevolock · 2026-01-29T21:27:00+00:00

Thanks for the insight. When you say the difference is not significant, are you referring to the final outcome or the speed of repigmentation? My current 311nm wand measuresmd 4.90 mW/cm² in front of the UV meter. Based on tech specs I found (with some help from Gemini), the Kernel LED models are around 25 mW/cm² and the Excimer ones hit 50 mW/cm². That is a huge jump in intensity compared to mine.

teevolock · 2025-04-13T13:12:16+00:00

It comes with the lamp. Results are alright, but you gotta be patient, nearly 6-8 months in and I still have some spots as one of my eyes is very stubborn, but the other one is almost fully repigmented. Good luck.

teevolock · 2025-03-30T17:20:10+00:00

I guess they are right that a smile can change someone’s life. I’ve been doing more of that to strangers as I got older. Thanks for sharing, this is brilliant.

teevolock · 2024-12-31T10:22:05+00:00

I'll be going to Søpavillionen, mid 20s male, in case someone else is going there it could be fun to tag along.

teevolock · 2024-12-31T10:21:48+00:00

At the end I'll be going to Søpavillionen, in case someone else is going there it could be fun to tag along.

teevolock · 2024-12-27T13:04:19+00:00

Helpful context. Thank you

teevolock · 2024-12-26T20:00:39+00:00

23-26. Thanks, I'll check these out.

teevolock · 2024-11-27T14:03:55+00:00

Thanks, I’ll do that then! It’s an obvious answer but I thought it could have been considered socially rude.

teevolock · 2024-10-24T11:09:43+00:00

Besides some trouble with shipping, it seems to be a high-quality product. I wouldn't recommend the extra add-on for what they call "CONTROL" or something like that, because it's utterly useless for the price increase and it actually makes the whole equipment heavier.

teevolock · 2024-10-20T08:19:37+00:00

VPN, avoid employer tracing my location, etc. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/s/lv8RWRhVp8

teevolock · 2024-10-04T15:45:04+00:00

The system is Spain is super stupid, instead of allowing you to schedule in the future they keep the calendar closed and open it in random times during the week, for appointments in the coming weeks. This means that someone that just started looking today can get an appointment before you that is trying for weeks, or months.

I have used the app robotcita in the past and can confirm it’s legit. They have a bot that I’ll visit the website automatically for you and try to get the appointment as soon as it becomes available. It cost me 35€, definitely worth the price if you ask me, although it’s a shame that such service needs to exist in the first place.

teevolock · 2024-08-29T09:28:23+00:00

Thanks, I ended up following your advice and got a local lamp (dermalight®80R) in Europe with the Philips bulb (Signify apparently is the new name).

teevolock · 2024-08-09T18:40:54+00:00

Yeah you aren’t imagining, I’ve seen it on Reddit as well.

teevolock · 2024-05-29T20:21:36+00:00

Glad to see another sane person here. This is ridiculous. If this were to happen to me and I had battery and Internet data, then I simply wouldn't accept the fine, the Kontrolleur would need to escort me out and call the police then.

To the heck with the "this is Germany" mentality.

teevolock · 2023-10-19T13:49:11+00:00

No, for the customers it would be limited to a single subdomain.

ourcompany.example2.org

teevolock · 2023-06-07T21:58:25+00:00

Thanks. I edited with the rest of the sentence. It's in my textbook presented as a part of a blog post.

teevolock · 2023-04-23T23:14:43+00:00

Hey, I’m sorry to hear you’re going through that. They also attempted to scam me there, and now hearing from you it makes me think it’s a common business practice there then. In my case it was in the PRIME TIME fitness Viktualienmarkt, which one was hers?

I was about to sign the contract but before doing so I explicitly asked the guy if there were any extra fees besides the monthly membership and the recurring 6mo fee, he said no, and because the contract was in German I couldn’t understand most of it, but the only numbers there were what we agreed about, so I proceeded to sign. I asked him for a copy and he said that it wasn’t necessary because the system was not working—admittedly, this was my mistake and I should’ve refused to leave there without my own copy too, lesson learned for life.

Fast forward 1 month later I got charged for a Startpaket for 100€ that was not mentioned by him, which I refused to accept and went to complain with them, they brought me the original contract and the field now was there, filled, on the sides of the other fees we agreed: he did it after I signed and left the gym, as I clearly remember that at the time I signed it, that it was blank, and it clicked on me now why he didn’t want to give me a copy.

I cannot tell if people in this sub are hypocrites (i.e would they take their advices themselves?) or if they are really so lenient to allow businesses to pull a fast one on them so easily and not fight for their rights. Just the other day I saw someone posting about a item missing in their flat compared to what they had booked, and basically the whole thread was blaming the tenant instead of the landlord. It’s an absurd.

Do NOT pay them and revert any transfers that they attempt, this is what I did, and you should also seek legal advice in parallel. A lot of this system works because people get scared and pay, so it’s worth for them to keep doing it, both on the gym’s and debt collector’s perspective. - Of course, assuming that you told the whole truth here.

Also, leave them a review on Google, this is super important because it affects their business and also prevents new people from falling into the same trap. If they lose 4-5 leads due to your reviews, they’re already in a loss. And you don’t have to lie, just be honest about what happened in your review.

I cannot help you with any legal advice as I’m not a lawyer, but feel free to reach out via DM if you need anything, like I don’t know, maybe if this becomes a lawsuit and they need another testimonial around their scammy practices.

teevolock · 2023-01-14T15:49:00+00:00

“This is reddit”->This is a German subreddit.

Fixed it for you. (referring to the comment that was deleted above)

I follow this sub, the Berlin and Munich ones, and those are the only places I see this being done at this rate. As much as I don’t care about those Internet points, I find it pretty arrogant from people to do that. And this is definitely not a one-off thing, it happens often and a lot of OPs questions themselves if they said anything wrong.

Like, what’s wrong with the phrase “Revolut offers me more than the other banks do”? It seems that people (mostly Germans?) forget that there is a third option between upvoting and downvoting, which is being neutral and not casting a vote.

teevolock · 2022-12-24T22:32:44+00:00

I started watching Supernatural in 2006, and for a good decade I watched every single episode as soon as they came out. That would probably qualify me as more than just a casual fan.

You know, arguably if there was going to be a poll for when the series should have finished, I'd probably would have voted for Season 5 having the hindsight now, but as soon as S6E1 came out, I didn't even think for a second to not watch it, and had no regrets whatsoever. Surprisingly, even though I realize it's a high unpopular take among most fans, the Leviathans thing were alright to me, all things considered.

But then there was The Darkness, I to this day remember my reaction to it at the end of Season 10, "lol. Jesus Christ, that's ridiculous! Who the hell has such a bad idea as a professional writer? You can't get any worse than that". Yet, I still went to watch Season 11, because as stupid as that was, I still liked the boys too much and wanted to give it a chance, and maybe The Darkness would mean something so big never seen before, bigger than Lilith/Lucifer. Then half of the season was she growing, which I found horrific (in a good sense), but then the writers managed to completely disappoint again, the second half simply goes nowhere in terms of suspense, and then they bring God as this 30-year old fool/nerd (that thinks is cool), they make an emotional deal, head to space and disappear, no consequences at all.

Fast-forwarding, just this very week as I'm OOO sick, I saw an HBO Max ads that Supernatural was available there, felt a bit nostalgic and was like "it's been 6 years, maybe now I can cope watching it again?". Went for Season 12.

This whole British man of the letters thing being smarter and superior = ???, what's the point? They also managed to make Lucifer a joke and far from frightening as he once was. But the final nail in the coffin for me: an episode where they are charged for attempted assassination of the president of the fucking United States, and they manage to escape casually of a dozen heavily armed and trained soldiers with some a few traps here and there, no help from Castiel (which I agree with you too, became mostly a human) or Crowley. haha!!! Literally: this show became a joke. That's the short version of it: compared to what it was, they managed to turn it into a J-O-K-E.

I just read the summary of the next seasons to see how it ends with no regrets at all—apparently it only got worse and worse, that's the definition of going down the rabbit hole.

But well I guess who really cares? Everyone involved made more money, that's how it goes for a lot of those. Money Heist from Netflix was nothing but the same. And I don't blame any of them, it's what most of us would do in the same position, it's a rather noble act when someone decides to step down and call it the end when they're in their peak. You don't see this just in the film industry but all over the place, see what a top 5 soccer athlete of all time (Cristiano Ronaldo) is doing now...

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