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Damor

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  1. Thanks. Is the HSBC ATM still preferred? I'm a bit nervous as I've never used my little credit union debit card outside of the US. Cash is so quaint. And I know Isla is chill, but are we OK going to most places in (dry) swimsuits? Will probably do Bastos after a day on that end of the island. Pictures seem like it would be fine, but don't want to be more asshole American than necessary.
  2. I'm going to have to go back through and reread this thread since it's been a while, but here's my restaurant list. Let me know what I'm missing. Basto's (figure this will get a couple visits) North Garden (likewise, expect several breakfasts here as chilaquiles are my jam) Fredy's (Recommendations? Google says pork chop?) Ballyhoo Marbella Fuego del Mar Olivia The Joint El Varadero Polo's Mango Cafe Angelo La Playita La Lomita Any specific recommendations at those places? I figure we''ll take the boys to hang out at Mayan Beach Club and/or Tuturreque a couple days. I think I saw those recommended.
  3. One week out. Fingers crossed hoping things go off. Anything unexpected, @riloh05? Booked a full day offshore and a half day bottom fishing with KeenM, and revisiting my list of restaurants. I've got a tempting lead on a saltwater fly fishing rig (haven't ever done it). Would it be worth taking? It doesn't sound like there are a lot of wading/shore fishing opportunities aside from maybe North Beach, where it would seem like kind of an assholeish thing to do. My liver is tanned, rested, and ready.
  4. Here are some my boys have enjoyed, although if they've been voracious readers, they may have covered these: Outdoors: (they are probably a little old for these, esp the 15yo) Hatchet, Tracker, lots of stuff by Gary Paulsen My Side of the Mountain DIY/Get in trouble: Unbored Manual to Manhood Backyard Ballistics Calvin and Hobbes or Far Side collections (huge hit at our house) Nonfiction: What If? Omnivore's Dilemma (there's a young reader's version, too). I don't know what the language tolerance is, but mine liked the Martian and Ready Player One, though those might be outside their interests. Otherwise a bunch of sci-fi/fantasy (sorry, I have nerds). Good luck.
  5. Some more WTF from Disney to warp childhood... I'm sure I can't be the only kid whose dad took them to see "Disney's version of Star Wars," only to have their brain melted... Revisiting it as an adult, I still don't know what the hell's going on (literally) at the end, nor do I know who managed to pitch a space version of Faust as a Disney movie, but I thought the inclusion of Goethe's last words was a creepy but underrated move. And this, along with Condorman, remains conspicuously absent from the Disney+ catalog. C'mon, it's got exploding dirigibles, lost Vikings, vicious inflatable orcas...
  6. JD McPherson came out with a pretty good original Christmas album a couple years ago, several of which have made it onto the playlist.
  7. Surely Tom wouldn't ask his athletic director to commit multiple NCAA violations on his behalf. I mean, that's the kind of thing that might get a guy fired for cause.
  8. Love a good barleywine, wish I could get my hands on it. New one for me, 5 Stones Golden Wisdom IPA out of New Braunfels. Good stuff.
  9. Damor

    Ear-bleeders

    Shitty evening at work. This helped on the way home, esp at about 1:51. I hated this song at first. Gives me chills now, Holy shit.
  10. In. Thanks to Brisket and his buddy Art Vandelay, who must be the go-between. I guess it makes sense for an importer-exporter to be in a border town.
  11. This is definitely true, but isn't it equally true for those who want the government to increase its influence and size? They usually have pretty particular ideas about how they want it to 'do something about X.' I'm pretty much completely politically disaffected these days, but what frustrates me about the growth of government (and especially the overreach of the executive) is that neither 'team' will consider the consequences of increasing governmental influence when they lose control of it. If you give government the power to do something you want, you've also given it the power to undo it (or do the opposite). After watching the unhinged mewling of birthers over Obama and the derangement that Trump has caused, with apocalyptic convulsions from both sides, maybe we should consider allowing government a little less control over our lives. I had kind of hoped that the lesson we would learn from this presidency was that if we've given our government/executive so much power as to be seen as an existential threat, perhaps that's a little too much?
  12. Sometimes you eat the B-cell, and sometimes, well, he eats you. Get better Dude. Phone's ringing.
  13. Thank you! I may look at doing a day and a half or two days so they can try out both. I'll ask them, of course, but any recommendations on what size boat to request (41, 36, 34ft)? I don't have enough experience to know the advantages/disadvantages of each.
  14. I'd like to take my boys fishing for a day. I've seen Keen M recommended on here, is that the consensus? I saw a rec for Obsession on the Fishing thread, but this will be their first offshore trip (and might as well be mine), so that experience seems like it would be wasted on us, plus we could probably go out twice with Keen for that price. What's the skeeter situation on Isla? We've never been bitten in the PdC area, but I didn't know if I should pack the DEET.
  15. That hurt at $700pp from AUS, but I'm not used to travelling at busy holidays, and that was better than anything else I could find. Also a direct flight back to AUS which will be vital since we haven't gotten our Global Entry interviews done and I'll be herding the boys back through customs for the first time. We'll take good care of Victor. I'm carving may way through the thread (and populating my Google map), but are most places on the island still cash only? Didn't know if anything had changed since the Rona.
  16. Fuck it, Dude. Let's go to Isla. Just booked SWA flights, went ahead and did two rooms at Secreto since I could book through a CC portal and get some point bonuses. Started this thread over from the beginning and I'll be back with preguntas estupidas. I already have so many restaurants bookmarked that we'll have to eat five meals a day.
  17. Thanks, unfortunately Aluxes is out of 2bdrm units that week. Was thinking about getting a couple rooms at Secreto -- definitely not going to Isla and sharing a room with those two knuckleheads. Just didn't know if kids aren't part of the vibe there.
  18. Somehow I'm off for the week after Christmas this year, so I'm toying with the idea of making this our boys' intro trip to Mexico (15yo and 13yo), and it would the first visit to Isla for my wife and I (we usually do the lazy gringo thing at El Dorado Casitas). What's it like at that time? Does it get bonkers down there for NYE? We're usually more chill-on-the beach types, especially given current circumstances. Is Secreto a no-go for kids that age? Looked like Ixchel might be a good spot? Any other places to look? I'm fine with a condo but I'm sure as hell not planning on cooking.
  19. In lieu of a real fire feature, we installed a couple of the Pentair Magic Bowls: (not my photo) It was the first time our builder had used them, so we didn't know what to expect, but we like them a lot and we haven't had any problems with them (yet) after about two years. Hassle-free, the kids like hanging around under the spillover, and it gives an approximation of a fire feature without inviting stupid adolescent male mischief.
  20. Heartless Bastards nailed 2020 with this one, methinks.
  21. I have developed a serious problem, but I don't want help. Upgraded my rig to what I was lusting after in Colorado and it's like mainlining heroin. I also have a new fishing buddy. We could both quit our jobs and do this every day.
  22. Rupp has become my derpiest fishing buddy. WHY U NO GIVE ME FLOPPY TREAT HOOMAN
  23. Damor

    Kayaking

    Quite the stern draw, knowwhatimean, nudge nudge? The boy's been asking about and looking for a good instructor in Central Texas. Any recommendations? Found Olympic Outdoor Center in San Marcos, anyone with experience or thoughts? @Snow Dog?
  24. No glass on the creek, imo
  25. There's a credible rumor that this will make a future anniversary appearance, so that it can go to my younger son when I am dead.
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