TREETOAD
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Ah the old widowmaker, today was your lucky day my friend.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
-- Jack
Shine on
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Rich guy only has one leg
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Maybe this is an Enumclaw nativity scene. What with the sheep and wise men and all
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What's the weather gonna be like here?
And here?
Looks like Ko phi phi
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When I was there we rented from National. because import duties of any kind are huge (around 100%) cars are very expensive to buy and when you rent a car they go over it with a fine tooth comb looking for any damage. They wre really anal about that. So I always stick with the major rental firms bewcause there "may" be recourse if they try to screw you. This may have changed by now though.
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I'm just going to smoke a fat one and go back to work
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At a sex club?
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Point well taken JayB, but if you guys ever get the urge to do some kind of work in Guatemala they can use every type of help they can get.
Here is a web site for just one of the organizations, it is very grass roots http://www.pocoapoco.ca/
Have a great holiday and honeymoon.
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technicolor booger?
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Santa is on his way
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In order to feel the true depths of pain one must first experience the peaks of ecstasy...or is it the other way round...oh well
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do we burn a virgin or somethin'?
Where the hell is Chaps?
Thats weird, up here we just roast them and eat them with capers and lemon butter, succulent especially with a light fruity white wine. It is a festivus kind of thing.
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Instead of pub clubs you could have tuesday night sex club,
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The free and easy!!
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How does this fit in with the two tongue pussy?
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I wonder if anyone swims in there..
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sspraysssuccubusss mmm sounds tasty
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A friend of mine was recounting a tale about an old uncle who went on safaris and shot lions and stuff. At one point he shot a lioness, and it had a bunch of cubs. After he shot the lioness he decided he might as well shoot the cubs, so he did so and made hand puppets out of them. Ah crazy uncles.
Almost like lampshades made out of human skin
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Striking resemblance to Georgie.
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How's the war going.
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(TreeToad, I would have to disagree. I lived in Costa Rica for a year and was in Guatamala and Nicaragua for 6 months. Yes, maybe it is more western in the popular areas, but if you get off the beaten path, there are BriBri Indians that are almost as old as the Mayans. I would say visit the Guanacaste Peninsula and stay in remote areas. One cool place is a Biological Reserve that doesn't even have any signs. A college dorm matron told me about it as she lives part time in TN on a college campus and part-time in MonteVerde Cloud Reserve where she founded and runs Escuala de Creativa. To get there, tale the ferry from Puntarenas over to the peninsula and head to Paquera. From there is a biological station by bus about 20 minutes SW of Paquera. You can stay in ocean front cabins, hike the beaches (all to yourself) shower outdoors (romantic) and take sea kayaks to three beaches. Monkeys all around! SUper remote. We were the only ones staying there when I was there and it is 3,000 acres. Also check out the dry lowland forest around Tamarindo and North. Big surf spot and Playa Naranja and Negra. Skip Papagayo as it is very resorty and nothing to do.)
I actually did do a great deal of this tour, we rented a four wheel drive and cruised around for two weeks, and you are right the wildlife is spectacular, and I love the way the Costa Ricans have realized their natures importance. We did have problems in SJ where a fellow followed us along the street as we left the bus station and recognizing that my wife was carrying our 1 year old son tryed to slit the back of her pack with a razor blade knife, We walked away quickly but he continued to follow us so I turned around and smashed him in the head with my trusty Pentax K1000. Off he fucked.
We did have a nice time there but I guess I just wanted something more culturally different from my own, Guatemala gave me that.
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Have you given any thought to Guatemala at all? I have been to both places and although Costa Rica is a beautiful place I found the culture to be somewhat bland, maybe a little too western. It was definately easy to travel there, English is spoken almost everywhere gringos go. And the beaches are great, my climbing partner has surfed there many times but it just didn't click with my wife and I so..We cut our travels short there and flew into Guatemala and spent three weeks traveling there. Though the people there have suffered in unimaginable ways there, through war and natural disasters the spirit and friendliness is truly genuine. The Mayan culture is something that you can almost taste. I have always wanted to return there and this February I am going back down to work with a small organization called Poco A Poco. They set up and help run small medical clinics in the poorest rural areas and coordinate surgical teams to go for two or three weeks at a time to perform much needed operations for these people. Anyway you should check it out on the web. It aint no all inclusive but you will never forget Guatemala once you have been there. If your wife is an MD maybe she would be interested in doing a little stint there.
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I have some friends that adopted a Chinese child and when that conversation comes up they explain to the person that they were traveling in china when they gave birth, that is usually followed by a long silent pause. Usually nothing more is said. My 15 year old son is a step son and I have never thought of him as anything different than my natural daughter. My wife and I have talked about adopting a child from Guatemala on many occasions and I can,t say for sure but I don,t think that I would feel any different about an adopted child either. I get what Dru is saying and I can see how in this twisted western kulture that adoption could easily become a trendy thing to do but I don,t think he was aiming it at sobo.
Need Costa Rica Beta
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Another small note that I just remembered.
The day before we got to Manuel Antonio a guy on his honeymoon was walking out of the surf up toward his wife who was watching him from the beach. As he walked out of the water he was struck by lightning and killed instantly.
It was July when we were there and there were huge monsoons and thunder and lightning storms each day around 4 oclock. We were driving at night and the thunder was cracking off above us as we drove and it sounded like a gunshot inside the truck. the lightning instantly flashed blinding me for a second each time. I didn,t want to stop just in case so I drove through that shit for about an hour. My 2 year old son was in the back and never even woke up.