Sosua Reports

[QUOTE=SavePros321]........But for now I'd just like to kindly remind everyone to put all your shit most important to you in your carry-on. I ended up getting jacked by TSA for my digital camera........[/QUOTE]
I feel bad for you but never, ever put valuables in checked luggage. Even the airlines warn you not to do so. If you didn't have the extra insurance you would be shit out of luck because most airlines do NOT provide theft coverage for "valuables". Your stuff gets stolen or the airline looses your luggage only thing they will pay for are your clothes and the suitcase. Laptops, cameras, DVD players, phones,,,,,none of that stuff is covered by the airlines.

I carry a bunch of electronics with me and most times I have to go through a double security check. It is a minor inconvience but I have my stuff with me at all times.

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]I feel bad for you but never, ever put valuables in checked luggage. Even the airlines warn you not to do so.[/QUOTE]
Oh, $#!+. I'm planning to put my Mares Voltrex regulator, Oceanic Prodigy dive computer, and Dive-Rite Trek wings on a Transpac harness, through as checked luggage when I go to Blackbeard's in a few weeks.

I will carry my camera and underwater housing in my checked luggage. And after this post, I may carry my camera's memory card in a body orifice. I won't embarrass you by specifying where, but it is an SD-Micro card so it may fit damn-near anywhere. (Guilty grins)

[QUOTE=SavePros321] I ended up getting jacked by TSA for my digital camera.[/QUOTE]
Did you realize this after you arrived in the DR? If so, how do you know it didn't happen after you arrived? I travel quite a bit throughout various parts of the world and my experience is that the TSA locks are only good in the US. I've arrived in other countries and have found my TSA locks cut. I've wondered did it happen in the US or in the country that I arrived in. Just a simple question.

[QUOTE=Twice Divorced]Did you realize this after you arrived in the DR? If so, how do you know it didn't happen after you arrived? I travel quite a bit throughout various parts of the world and my experience is that the TSA locks are only good in the US. I've arrived in other countries and have found my TSA locks cut. I've wondered did it happen in the US or in the country that I arrived in. Just a simple question.[/QUOTE]
This happenend on the return trip home. I packed the camere in the check luggage before leaving Terra Linda. It wasn't there when I got back home. I got pulled to the side and questioned by Customs at MIA but the guy who interviewed me never touched my camera because from what I understand if they pull it out they make you go through it in front of them. He went through both my bags right in front of me. I do wish he had gone through my camera because I could have at least laid eyes on it again and determined whether or not it made it out of POP. I know that I did not leave it at Terra Linda because the camera pouch was still in my bag; just minus the camera. They were also going to get me for my external hard drive because it was halfway out of it's pouch when I found it, but it looks like they couldn't determine what it was so they left it. I know that they jacked with it because it is kept in a drawstring pouch and I did not pull it out at all for this trip. But even had they taken it it's password protected.

[QUOTE=Westy]
...And after this post, I may carry my camera's memory card in a body orifice. I won't embarrass you by specifying where, but it is an SD-Micro card so it may fit damn-near anywhere. (Guilty grins)[/QUOTE]
I should add that the only reason I still have the memory card with the bulk of my photos from the trip is not only because they did not steal the camera pouch; I had initially switched it out of the camera with a blank memory card because I didn't want my main chica seeing the other girls I was taking photos of during the day while she was gone. She has the habit of wanting to she her photos after I take them (who doesn't) and to keep myself from accidentally scrolling too far back in the camera I just decided to use two separate memory cards.

Keeping the cards on you and separate from your camera is actually a very good idea, especially if you have been shooting nudes or video. Again, I'm am sooo glad I was doing neither on this trip.

[QUOTE=Coolie High]........I'm still kinda confused on the whole car situation. Ok so I rented a truck from Juniors boy name Cesa. Its his truck and not rented. Now I know if we got in a accident Cesa would be looking at me to repair his car. But what about the police and the person involved in the accident. Since I'm not driving would I still be shaken down and possibly going to jail?

Also Sade has a valid drivers liscense and use to have her own car so I figure whats the difference between Junior and Sade driving..........[/QUOTE]
I honestly don't know how to answer this one. I do feel that if something was to happen you would be the first and only one they would go after. Maybe someone else with better knowledge will chime in with more info. Something just doesn't seem right with this friend of Junior's having a car for rent. Most Dominicans mongers run across have a motoconcho, definetly not a car for rent. I just have read my share of horror stories and try to reduce my risk by going legit on car rental.

I was one Jailed after car accident. I know alot more than I did quite frankly because of ISG member who got pissed off after reading my story.

In case you are in accident Dominican law requires person[gringo] involved go to Jail your fault or not if the other injured party is in Hospital seriously hurt.

You need full liabilty insurance with Casa Conductor Insurance it keeps you out of the Dungeon in case worst happens to you. But more than likely you will still have to come up with the cash to get yourself out which the most I heard of was 10000 us dollars.

Then the rental car agency reimburses you but only later no credit card keeps you out of Jail or pays for you.

My only recommendations are get proper insurance have someone on outside who has lot of money in case you need it.

or Drive off your fault [cruel but better than what you have coming] or not your going to jail

Except if noone from other party is hurt or if you go to Clinic or Hospital and pay expenses there or on the spot of accident and dissapear.

I heard someone a gringo was thrown in Jail after drunk moto ran into side of his truck and killed himsel even though wasn't gringo's fault he had to pay 3000 us dollars and spend time in Jail.

Dominican law does no favor us I wish there was a way around it but it is not possible too much profit in it for police and lawyers.

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]I honestly don't know how to answer this one. I do feel that if something was to happen you would be the first and only one they would go after. Maybe someone else with better knowledge will chime in with more info. Something just doesn't seem right with this friend of Junior's having a car for rent. Most Dominicans mongers run across have a motoconcho, definetly not a car for rent. I just have read my share of horror stories and try to reduce my risk by going legit on car rental.[/QUOTE]I think he is saying that if he didn't rent the car and doesn't own it, and if hes not driving, how can he be liable?

He has a point, he can't be held responsible in any way. Except if the cars owner says he accepted responsibility. I'm sure the car would be impounded and the driver arrested, but somehow they will get coolie high involved being he is non dominican.

[QUOTE=Coolie High]I'm still kinda confused on the whole car situation. Ok so I rented a truck from Juniors boy name Cesa. Its his truck and not rented. Now I know if we got in a accident Cesa would be looking at me to repair his car. But what about the police and the person involved in the accident. Since I'm not driving would I still be shaken down and possibly going to jail?
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They go after whoever has any money, regardless of who is driving, or who owns what. And that person is not going to be one of your lowlife Dominican pals.

[QUOTE=Charles Pooter]They go after whoever has any money, regardless of who is driving, or who owns what. And that person is not going to be one of your lowlife Dominican pals.[/QUOTE]
Charles Pooter and others what are your thoughts about this rental deal. I know I would not go anywhere near a deal like that. I doubt if I would even ride in a vehicle drivien by a Dominicano I really don't know. I stick with "legal" taxis, motoconchos, and vehicles I rent from the major compainies.

I find the car rental deal quite shaky and have no doubt who will vanish when the shit hits the fan and who will be left holding the bag. I so often read about guys who have street smarts from growing up in such and such a neighborhood back home. Guys in may help a little in the DR but for the most part it don't mean crap with the games the tigures play.

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]Charles Pooter and others what are your thoughts about this rental deal. I know I would not go anywhere near a deal like that.[/QUOTE]I wouldn't even go anywhere near a guy like that in the first place. You give them a kind word or a peso and they think you are their meal ticket for life. Best of luck with trying to shake him off next trip.

[QUOTE=SavePros321]This happenend on the return trip home. I packed the camere in the check luggage before leaving Terra Linda. It wasn't there when I got back home. I got pulled to the side and questioned by Customs at MIA but the guy who interviewed me never touched my camera because from what I understand if they pull it out they make you go through it in front of them. He went through both my bags right in front of me. I do wish he had gone through my camera because I could have at least laid eyes on it again and determined whether or not it made it out of POP. I know that I did not leave it at Terra Linda because the camera pouch was still in my bag; just minus the camera. They were also going to get me for my external hard drive because it was halfway out of it's pouch when I found it, but it looks like they couldn't determine what it was so they left it. I know that they jacked with it because it is kept in a drawstring pouch and I did not pull it out at all for this trip. But even had they taken it it's password protected.[/QUOTE]Actually in Colombia in 1990's I had thing like this happen to me but they stole my shoes and other stuff.

Actually one of my friends works for AA one of his co workers steals Ipods out of luggage all the time.

[i]“When I first started I had a high bang count but then I backtracked waiting for the next vacation to get with the ones that offered good sex with a good attitude” – Mr. Gogo (5/18/10)[/i]

Guess this statement could pretty much sum up my most recent trip. Most of the time I'm down there trying to bang as many as I can before the day is out, but not so this trip. I initially went down to Sosua with plans to spend a majority of my time with a chica I had met back in March. I am still rubbing my eyes to this day wondering how everything turned out exactly as well as planned. There are just some certain things that keep you returning to that place again and again; she would be one of them.

MY HAITIANA

The first day I got there she was already blowing up my Sosua cell phone as if she witnessed me exiting the airplane (I am sure the girls there know the arrival/departure schedules by now). She must had been calling it all evening because I didn’t even turn it on until after dropping my bags off at Terra Linda and heading out with my wingman to go and get minutes (we had been talking on the phone/SKYPE off and on since April, plus I had talked to her the day before arriving). I was just there in March and left with at least 397 minutes on the damn thing, but apparently after a month you lose them all. No sooner as I purchase three 100 pesos cards from the store next to Rocky’s the cell phone starts ringing (you can still receive incoming calls with no minutes on your phone). I answer, but we get cut off. She calls back immediately. I answer again but the phone cuts out. She calls again and I tell her “no tengo minutos” and that I will call her “mas tarde.” What I was trying to convey to her was that I would call her as soon as I could figure out how to put the minutes on my phone. She says “okay papi, call me cuando tu no ocupado” and I could immediately sense in her voice that she’s probably thinking “Okay, this muthafucka is going to blow me off now that his ass has arrived safely.” So now I’m like shit, what the fuck do I do with these three cards they just gave me for minutes so that I can call her and quell her fears, lol? Luckily we run into one of my wingman’s “street boys” (more on them later) who speaks good English. He puts all the minutes on my phone, then presses #131# to show me they are there and how much. I thank him and give him RD50 for helping me out. I immediately call my Haitiana back and tell her to go ahead and come down from PP. She sounds much more relieved now, lol.

To sum up my business with the Haitiana: The first day there I called her and she came and hung out until about 7pm. I then told her to come back at 10:30 or 11pm so that me and my wingman could get a lay of the strip for a few hours. Once she came back I kept her until about 2pm the next day and told her to come back around 7 or 8pm. This was the schedule we had my entire trip, but as the days passed and I started feeling her more and more, I would have her stay later and come back much earlier! I would get in other chicas while she was gone though; the most I did was three one day. After that it was about two and most of them were repeats with the same chica.

The Haitiana was my noiva for this trip. We would go eat together and pretty much lay up under one another in the room all day and night. I previously had stopped doing TLN’s, but damn she was nice (and warm) to sleep next to every night. Still don’t know how she tricked my grown ass into watching Spanish-dubbed “iCarly” and “Keen and Kel” every night…

TERRA LINDA

No complaints at all with the place. They do not accept credit cards (anymore) so you will have to pay in cash and pay upon arrival for as many days as you plan to stay there. Andre is cool but I had to politely remind him that the rate I was told was $55 a night. Don’t know how the hell he came up with $297 for four nights, but he quickly corrected it to $275. They also bring you a drink to the check in counter. Don’t know exactly what it was, but it was pretty good. It can get very cold in the rooms though. Most of the guys I talked to said they would leave their units off for the most part. My girl had me up at least three to four times throughout the night adjusting the temp. The restaurant has a nice vibe to it and the staff is very nice. Food is a bit pricey though. The most I paid in the restaurant was RD1,165.00 because this prissy-ass (big booty) Haitiana I met (and had banged the day before) just had to have the fish, lol (all I ordered was La Bandera). I felt compelled to buy her lunch after blowing her off twice since Ingrid showed up when I thought she wouldn’t (yes, I believe this is the same Ingrid everyone is talking about, lol. Big eyes, big boobs, big ass, nice legs. Not the most timely person though), so maybe this was her way of paying me back, hehehe. NOTE: If you ever need to lie to a about why she could come to your room 30 minutes ago when you called her but now she has to wait another hour, just tell her they haven’t cleaned you’re room yet and that you have no clean towels :)

THE STRIP

May was slow, but not dead in the least bit. I loved the fact that I arrived on Tuesday this time because it was more of a relaxed atmosphere before the weekend crowd rolled in around Thursday-Saturday. Merengue bar didn’t really pick up until around 10 or 11, and there were a couple of times I didn’t see anyone other than the bartenders at Latinos. Took a lot longer to pick and choose from chicas. For one, my Haitiana set a pretty high bar, so I didn’t not want to take anything less than perfection. Secondly, there weren’t many attractive chicas around to begin with. This changed later in the week, but Tues-Thurs I was just glad that I had taken the time to line something up before I got to Sosua. Usually I have at least 4-5 different numbers after the first day, but that was not the case this time.

CLASSICOS

Sorry, I did not go to Classicos the whole time I was there. Was supposed to have gone with my wingman one night but he found a girl before it opened, so I just went back to my room to be with the Haitiana.

BEGGING

This is the one thing that really spoils the fantasy while there; almost to the point that it makes you want to consider camping out on other parts of the island. I know DR is a 3rd world country, but you have to admit it gets on your nerves a bit. I have a group of lil one’s that I give pesos to every day, but the problem is that they will ask you for pesos ALL DAY. Most of the time they will leave you alone once you have given them some pesos, but if they are not in their group and part of the group did not see you give the other part of the group pesos today, then guess what?

Then there are the walking vendors. The guy who sells the Rosetta Stone and the Spanish book (that he supposedly wrote himself) is a cool guy. Things were so slow that one night he sat with me at Merengue and talked. What I like about him is that after you tell him that you aren’t interested he will keep moving. Plus he has seen me on previous trips and knows my Spanish is getting better.

The guy who sells the paintings is the opposite. He will continue to hassle you until you just end up buying a painting. Think that buying one painting will do the trick of getting him to leave you alone? Think again! I now have two of his damn paintings sitting in my closet still with the rubber band on them. The only reason I have the second one is because my wingman agreed to buy one from him as well so that he could stop complaining about having to pay his rent. After the second painting I told him our business is finished (after buying the first painting I said I would get another one on Friday, but he hit me up every day BEFORE THEN) and he agreed. Saturday he got my ass for a Presidente. Oddly enough, he will sit down and talk with you also and we just chatted about life and other stuff to pass time. A soccer game was on (this was Saturday afternoon) and it must have been big because at all the bars everyone was glued to the TV.

Then there is the older guy with the thick black mustache who walks around with the sea green box with necklaces and beads. I bought a heart-shaped one from him and gave it to my Haitiana. Low and behold, who the fuck shows up while me and her are eating breakfast at Tipico Alberto’s? I tell him no thanks because you are going to fuck this up for me if she sees I bought the necklace from your ass. My wingman enters the picture and he proceeds to try to sell him on buying something…brazenly displaying the same necklace I bought my Haitiana not even a day before. I never saw her wear the damn thing again.

STREET BOYS

These are not the older hustlers; these are the up-n-coming. Every time I would see these guys they were always dressed fly (like New Yorkers, lol). My wingman had a few that he would use to go and buy him stuff to bring back. One guy went to a fish place in Charmico’s (spelling) for my wingman and he gave him 150 pesos. He had another run and get him some juice one time, etc. Most of them seemed pretty cool, and instead of asking you for pesos they instead ask you if you need them to do something for you, such as errands.

EXCHANGE RATE

I mostly used the ATM’s to get cash out. WARNING: Something is fucked up with the ATM’s at Banco Popular. They never worked and every time you try them it will tell you “invalid transaction.” I instead would use the Banco Progresso ATM’s that is on the way to La Passions. I was also able to exchange my dollars at the rate of 36 in the Cambio’s.

MOTOCHONCHO

First time I’ve every rode one before. Let’s just say that after that, if there was anywhere I was going to that took more than 10 minutes to walk to, I was taking a motochoncho, lol!

RAIN

When it rains, it fucking rains in Sosua! Last Saturday I had my Haitiana come back early because we were supposed to go to Cabarete. That got cancelled once the thunder and lightning began, so we just ended up sloshing through the rain to Rocky’s to eat. I don’t know when they started this (didn’t notice this in March) but Rocky’s has a large big screen TV that they show movies on sometimes. One night I was there they were playing “Law Abiding Citizen.” Anyway, it rained so bad that the water was above your ankles as you made your way back to your room at TL.

RUMBA BAR

Looked at it from across the street. Didn’t seem like much was going on. Didn’t look like there was any mongering to be had there either so we never checked it out. Just looked like one of those neighborhood spots back home where everyone knows one another and everyone brings their girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse.

BAG GUYS AT THE AIRPORT

Those sons of bitches are greedy. I was already prepared to give the guy 50 pesos once I arrived at the curbside of POP airport to go home. He took my bags, asked what airline, and put them on the scanner. I handed him the 50 pesos and he smiles, looks off elsewhere and mutters “100 pesos” more. We both laughed. We start to walk over to the counter and he mutters “100 pesos more”. We both laugh again. Finally I tell him that’s all I have and told him to “take care.” I left DR with not even 1 peso in my pocket.

But I shall return :)

[QUOTE=Dw1987]In case you are in accident Dominican law requires person[gringo] involved go to Jail your fault or not if the other injured party is in Hospital seriously hurt.

I heard someone a gringo was thrown in Jail after drunk moto ran into side of his truck and killed himsel even though wasn't gringo's fault he had to pay 3000 us dollars and spend time in Jail.

Dominican law does no favor us I wish there was a way around it but it is not possible too much profit in it for police and lawyers.[/QUOTE]I was going over the car rental/accident/jail thing with one of my novias and she said the only reason you would have to go to jail is if someone died in the accident (your fault or not). Other than that, they will always fuck with you if you don't know the law.

[QUOTE=Twice Divorced]Did you realize this after you arrived in the DR? If so, how do you know it didn't happen after you arrived? I travel quite a bit throughout various parts of the world and my experience is that the TSA locks are only good in the US. I've arrived in other countries and have found my TSA locks cut. I've wondered did it happen in the US or in the country that I arrived in. Just a simple question.[/QUOTE]

Happened to me 2-3 times from DR to here before I wised up and stopped using the TSA locks. I just make sure there is nothing of value in it when I check it. There have been at least two large scale arrests of baggage thiefs in the last year or so. One here in MIA and the other in SDQ.