Trip Report Day 4: The Fishing Trip
Woke up around 11ish and the fellas and I started to get ready for the boat trip. Bought some food and drinks and it was time to set sail. Mike and Marcus gets on the boat while I deal with Jose the owner of the boat. Paid the rest of the balance and all was cool. Or so we thought. Waited for my girl and our guest Mr. M that moved from the states to DR to meet us on the boat. They finally arrived and we set sail. Bob Marley is playing on the boat and for a moment everything was calm.
An hour passes and my boy Marcus notice that we've been circling around the same area. Mr. M also starts to take notice and sees that there isn't another fishing boat in site. WTF is going on. By now I'm starting to get sea sick because the ocean is moving the boat like it's a play boat made by hasbro. My girl is being the calm one so I hold on to her and tap into her energy so I don't lose my lunch.
"Yo Mr. M ask the captain when are we going to stop", I yelled. He asks the captain and the captain says they weren't planning on stopping. You weren't going to stop? Then how and the hell were we suppose to go fishing. And you can't go fishing anyway in these ruff as waters. Everyone by now is clearly upset and I told the captain to take our ass back to the beach. Not now but right now. So much for my dream of trying to smash on the boat now I'm just trying to get the f**k off it in one peace. The waves are moving strong and I'm getting pissed of by the second. I know one thing for sure where getting our money back from Jose.
We finally get back to the port. Jose comes on another boat to take us back to the beach. When Jose gets close Mr. M our guest friend starts telling Jose the situation. Jose starts to run game. "My friend, my friend there are two type of fishing. Trollope fishing where you just ride around and have the rods out and they catch what they can and some other type of fishing". Mr. M was like you don't take no tourist to do trollope fishing. There wasn't even another boat out there cus of the ocean was to ruff which means we've shouldn't have gone out at all.
They both started to go at it. Mr. M gets so pissed off that he swims to shore. Jose steadily trying to run game and tell I Jose to just give us our money back. I yell at Junior whose on the beach to come and make your boy Jose know that we want our money. NOW!
We get to the shore and things start to escalate. Jose goes and starts talking to the captain. Then he tells Junior that he can only give us back only half the money. I told him that we haven't even use the boat for two hours and that we want more then half. Give us 250 and we'll pay the workers that were with us. The arguing continues. A crowd starts to form. My girl starts to talk for my behalf. Mr. M is arguing for us as well. Junior comes to me and says Jose isn't budging.
At this point I'm really close to stomping Jose ass but had to stay cool cus now the police are on the scene. DAMN! Mr. M and Jose are about to fight right in front of the police. I hold Mr. M back and try to calm him down. Meanwhile my boy is in my ear. "Yo we need to just take the 150 and be done cus now the police are involved and we might not get anything". Sensing the truth in his words I told Junior to get the 150usd for us and let's call it a day.
I got my things and I started walking away from the beach to La Roca restaurant. I had to leave the scene before I did something stupid. Now as I was walking away I see a motorcycle pass by. It was Jose riding with the police. I get up the hill and goes to a bar across from La Roca called Mai. Two minutes later I see Junior in Mr. M car leaving the scene.
My boys Mike and Marcus with my girl brings the car up and come chill at the bar with me. "Hey where's Junior and Mr. M go at", I ask. Mike tells me that they went to the police station where Jose is at so they can get the money.
5 mins later Mr. M calls me. He says he doesn't know the exact deal that we made with Jose cus he wasn't there so we need to come down to the police station and tell our story. FUCK ME! ARE YOU SERIOUS. Fine I'll be there. Told the fellas and my girl I don't know how this is going to turn out so stay here and I'll go by myself. My girl and the fellas were like naw, we in this together so we all go together.
We get to the police station and before I got out the car I had to calm myself. Think before you react especially when entering a 3rd world police station. Cus down here one wrong move or wrong word can get you landed in jail or shot.
We meet up with Junior and Mr. M. The chief of police is here as well as ***** ass Jose and his people. The chief wants to hear our side of the story. And the person I last expected to represent us and have my back came and talk to the chief. My girl Sade went and sat with the chief and explained everything that happens. Right then and there I knew this broad was a champion. How many females you know would fight for you in your amigos in a 3rd world police station. Hell I can't find that back in the states other then my mom. I always judge a woman by when things are going bad. Cus at this particular moment things wasn't going well for us and she could have left and not gone to the police station and I would've definitely understood. So to see her by my side speaking for my behalf so we can get our money back made me fall for her even more. Much respect goes out to her.
So after she speaks for us the chief tells us that Jose is not going to give back the 150 dollars but we can still get credit for the 6hrs left and use the boat however we choose. Mr. M says to me, "Hey where now at the point where shit can get very ugly very quickly. I know this sucks but we need to take the credit and leave the scene". Seeing the anger in my face he talks to me a little more to calm me down. Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear get you! We tell the chief we agree to the terms and we all leave the police station. Thank God
I've learned a valuable lesson that day. Unless the company has been given a seal of approval by the Senior Mongers themselves never, NEVER PAY UPFRONT FIRST for anything in Sosua. Let them provide the service first and for damn sure don't put down a deposit. Jose sought of pressure us into putting us down a deposit because he gave the allure that there very busy and if you don't put anything down you'll miss your chance to use the boat. When the reality of Sosua is right now it's not busy AT ALL! And people down there are hurting. Which means since gringos have the money gringos have the power.
Afterwards we went back to the villa and everybody chilled in the pool. All we could do was laugh at what just happen. We kept laughing at how Jose would always started his conversation off by saying, "MY FRIEND, MY FRIEND"!. Marcus was like, "Where's my friend at cus I'm still waiting on that mutha*****r to appear"! LMAO
Mr. M also was still with us and he was telling us how they were trying to stay off topic and push aside the fact that we didn't go fishing at all. Hell to this day I still haven't even touch a rod. Damn I wanted to get this mutha*****r. But it's cool. I've learned my lesson and it will never happen again. So to all that come across a man that goes by Jose real name is Juan Jose Garcia that has a fishing boat and controls the banana boat by the beach I advice you to STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY. And give him the finger for me when he steps to you and says, "my friend, my friend"!
Mr. M leaves and we all thank him again for having our back as well. Later on that evening I decided I just wanted to chill at the crib with my girl tonight. The fellas Mike and Marcus went to venture out. After all that I've been thru today I just wanted to relax with my girl.
I'm not going to lie after the way she had my back at the police station I was falling for her fast. The quickest way to a mans heart is not thru his stomach but it's to have his back when shits not going right. The whole night I'm talking to her about life, her favorite music etc. Hell I even showed her on the net how similar she look like Sade the music artist. She concurred and was like so that's why you were staring at me the whole time at Classicos cus I look like her. We enjoyed each others energy all night physically and emotionally.
Trip Report Day 5 Showtime at Classicos coming soon
A lot of drama on your trip
[QUOTE= . . . They both started to go at it. Mr. M gets so pissed off that he swims to shore. Jose steadily trying to run game and tell I Jose to just give us our money back. I yell at Junior whose on the beach to come and make your boy Jose know that we want our money. NOW!
We get to the shore and things start to escalate. Jose goes and starts talking to the captain. Then he tells Junior that he can only give us back only half the money. I told him that we haven't even use the boat for two hours and that we want more then half. Give us 250 and we'll pay the workers that were with us. The arguing continues. A crowd starts to form. My girl starts to talk for my behalf. Mr. M is arguing for us as well. Junior comes to me and says Jose isn't budging. . . .
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I'd say Junior is the cause of all the drama. You should have given him the boot after the first day. If you don't want to drive, grab a taxi, but know where you want to go first. You've got to do the research on your own, taxi drivers (and tigres) will only take you to where they will get the biggest kickback.
Let's see, Junior introduced you to Jose', right? It sounds like they were both scamming you. No doubt Junior got a huge "commission" on the introduction.
- Don't pay for anything in advance.
- Stay away from Dominican males who speak some English, have fun personalities and chat you up. They make their living scamming gringos, and they have partner scammers who sell everything from drinks with umbrellas, food, girls, you name it. This is the first time I've heard about boats. These guys are smart and creative.
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