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08-12-15 09:12 #25200
Posts: 1908A packing list for the compulsive!
Originally Posted by PipJaeger [View Original Post]
I now have a computer list that contains everything I might need on my trip, and nothing more.
Things like a charger, a pen for all the forms, even a toothpick can be handy on a plane. Spare pair of old glasses just in case. Pick up some extra forms as you go through customs, you can fill them in before you travel.
A glance at the list a few days before might remind you to get a haircut, get some USA Small bills from the bank. Wash or replace those tattered shorts.
Also stuff to do at home before I leave like water the plant, take out the garbage, turn the thermostat up or down, clean out the old crap from the fridge.
That sort of thing.
Obsessive? Or just being practical.
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08-12-15 01:33 #25199
Posts: 2803Originally Posted by CharlesPooter [View Original Post]
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08-12-15 00:52 #25198
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Oakie [View Original Post]
What is a hurricane in the south of the DR and elsewhere only has tropical storm force by the time it hits Sosua. Never dangerous for those staying in tourist standard accommodation and not travelling. It can put a damper on social life and communications unless you have lined up company in advance, but after one to three days the chicas all come out in force anxious to make up for lost income.
Some years there are no serious storms at all.
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08-11-15 17:00 #25197
Posts: 1908Originally Posted by LilBear [View Original Post]
And, there's always enough chicas.
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08-10-15 23:31 #25196
Posts: 753Originally Posted by Yanqui69 [View Original Post]
A better, and much safer, alternative are water purification tablets. They're cheap and readily available at places like Wal-Mart, Bass-Pro, Cabela's, etc.
If you want to go the bleach route then wait till you arrive and buy it there. Bleach is cheap and readily available at just about any local grocery store. I usually do get a small bottle when I travel abroad, but not for purifying the water. I pack a small plastic spray bottle (about an 8-10 oz size one / empty) and mix about a 10% bleach / water solution. Since I don't want to get any cooties (lol) I use it to disinfect the toilet, shower / tub / jacuzzi and sink in the bathroom of the hotel as well the kitchen area if I'm renting a condo.
globalhydration.com/ blog / there-difference-between-aquatabs-water-purification-tablets-and-common-household-bleach.
https://www.tsa.gov/traveler-informa...ohibited-items
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08-10-15 20:39 #25195
Posts: 32Low season in Sosua
Hey guys,
I am taking a friend to Sosua from Oct. 5th to the 10th. I'm just wondering is this a bad time to go? I haven't been to the DR since 2009. And also will there be a nice amount of chicas to choose from?
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08-10-15 15:25 #25194
Posts: 1110Originally Posted by RocheBrazi [View Original Post]
It can happen in Europe, but in 8 years in Germany, I never felt a physical threat.
Poor countries, especially Latin America, have more people hunting for easy money.
In my own defense, that's why I mentioned I never go out with more than I could afford to lose.
Imagine this guy had his passport stolen. !
I travel direct to my hotel, with cash stashed away from the usual / easy locations.
My cash, cards, documents, are in the safe. I only change money as needed, and carry even less on me.
I personally, don't need a cell on the street, but a local cel with a calling card is a low-risk option.
But then, I enjoyed being "spoon-fed" women at BB, anyway. .
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08-10-15 02:47 #25193
Posts: 77Well that could happen everywhere in the world. I could go here in Europe to a ATM and some random thief could gunpoint at them to withdrawl all my cash. That could happen without I made the GF froma dominican ladron angry or something.
I do not think that is daily buisness in sosua neighter in the whole dr, menos celoso ex novias that let their ex husband / boyfriend get murdered for a few pesos.
Once I was with a friend from me in spain on vacation. Just a buddy vacation to get drunk as much. We both had serious relationships and was not in mood to monger or anything. We was in the disco and late at night I could not find mi friend. I found him in the hotel in his bed. Not too bad.
But the next morning he could not find his cell phone.
He remebered he got harrased by a african looking puta that offered todo includo anal por buen precio in the shruberry etc. He refused. She did in the end pickpocked him. Basically she would ahve pickpocked him anyway and not fucked his John even if he wanted to. Guess his cell made the round to all native africans in spain during the night. And when he woke up with a hangover he had a 5000 euro bill from his provider.
Even without dealing with putas you can get ripped off like hell.
You never be save of any crime. But the best thing to avoid is stay at home or do not get drunk and do not give to much personal info to anyone in a foreign county.
Originally Posted by Tempoecorto [View Original Post]
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08-10-15 01:02 #25192
Posts: 1908Originally Posted by MrGogo [View Original Post]
I tend to make light of actually how dangerous it can be for some folks, but believe me, just as I am a "defensive" driver, I am a "defensive" monger.
I learned my mongering in my home town, and I can tell you it can be a really dangerous and seedy business here, because it is illegal. So add cops to your enemies list of ho's pimps and other criminals, Lol. . If you are ripped off, or set up for a sting, you have nobody to turn to. So to me Sosua is actually monger friendly, and by observing a few rules, I feel very, very safe there.
I don't put myself in situations where I am not in control, and breaking off with a woman can be a difficult and costly problem anywhere. It must be done right. In my main life relationships, I have always had an exit strategy, a Plan B. Otherwise you are a prisoner of circumstances beyond your control, I stay friends with 'em! (The Seinfeld Rule - It's NOT you, it's ME!)
My insurance rates are low, and my ex wife payouts were minimal, (for god sakes you guys, wait till the kids are grown!) but we know guys who have to pay through the nose to get insured, and give up half their livelihood to get free from some biatch.
Some things can be learned, but you can't teach common sense. AS P.T Barnum said, There's a sucker born every minute., and I think that should be emblazed on the DR flag, Lol
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08-10-15 00:12 #25191
Posts: 1110Originally Posted by MrGogo [View Original Post]
I would have spoken to the management about the guard.
If wishing to avoid problems, I might have waited til the end of my stay, but I would have raised the issue.
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08-09-15 17:33 #25190
Posts: 3700Originally Posted by Oakie [View Original Post]
I've stopped letting girls in my room use my laptop to get online, saying that I don't own a laptop. In the Sosua kidnapping they probably knew he carried his wallet and ATM card with him regularly, from the girl. Fellas don't take these girls with you when you do banking transactions.
Also stay in a hotel with good security and responsible guards. My last trip I stayed at Garant in Boca Chica and this Haitian girl was raising hell with a guest on the property. Me and two other dudes are looking at the Haitian security guard telling him to remove the girl but he just sat there and did nothing. It made me realize that anyone could probably knock on my door and put a gun to my head and walk me to my safe very easily. Make sure that security has a history of protecting the guests and are not just there to sleep and see nothing.
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08-09-15 17:11 #25189
Posts: 1908Originally Posted by Tempoecorto [View Original Post]
Foreign country, a hooker, money, and he made an enemy on an opponent's turf, a woman scorned, bent on revenge! A volatile mix!
Unfortunately not a brew guaranteed to bring the same level of tranquility as lying on the couch watching NFL football all day!
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08-09-15 16:34 #25188
Posts: 409Originally Posted by Tempoecorto [View Original Post]
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08-09-15 15:18 #25187
Posts: 2116Kidnapping
I was sitting at the entry of the Sosua hotel and shooting the breeze with Andre', a gentleman Frannie knew. Another person came down and sat down. He looked disheveled and slowly I hear this story from Andre's questioning that he was taken to an ATM machine by a man at gunpoint, but the saving grace was that the ATM limits withdrawal, so his loss was limited to $1000. Now knowing that I am not in Iraq or Syria, I was rather surprised and asked him more questions. It turned out that he had a regular woman who got too close to him and knew all his details and then he dumped her who apparently then planned this with some man she knows. Take whatever lesson you want to take from this, but I who go into territories in the DR, the Sosua wanderers would not dare into, have not found the place that "dangerous". Or, perhaps I am lucky. My skin color does not flag any attention for anyone compared to the white skins that are associated with money. Indeed I have never had bad experience anywhere, except my maiden voyage to Rome, where my passport was stolen, many many moons ago.
Interestingly, this gentleman, a nice man from around the Eastern Seaboard, asked me to go to Rumba (when I mentioned that I did not find anyone worth bringing back) to check women. Clearly you are only looking for professionals who may have more than one game to play. Any day, a regular woman, ideally young, as Sammon mentions. .
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08-09-15 14:56 #25186
Posts: 2116Originally Posted by Sammon [View Original Post]
The Sosua experience this time itself was a pointer. There are boundaries everywhere which stifles exploration, an important part of quality sex, not just hump and dump. Sure it takes time and other resources but boy, is it worth?
On the other hand, as Oakie (and Gogo, his post was insightful) states, we can opine as much as we want but history never teaches anything.