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midtown

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  1. Ritchie!!
  2. Werner=Chuck Knobloch
  3. I'm in..just wrapped up a meeting..perfect timing
  4. You absolutely can not put a 40L bag under a seat. Its not meant for it esp if its fully packed. I once had somone looking for space ask "whose back pack is this?" I said mine " they said its a peronsal item it shoudl be under your seat" "Hey idiot thats a 40L bag and its actually bigger than your rollarboard and its staying right where it is" FA walked up right then and said yeah thats not going anywhere
  5. Whomever asked about Cotipaxi. I have a 35L Cotipaxi Allpa. Its a really good bag for shorter trips. I tried the same bag but in 42L but it didnt compare to my Eagle Creek so I returned it.
  6. You are either a woman or someone with terrible taste if you drink starbucks in the first place so you get what you deserve IMO
  7. It's a satchel
  8. This is a thread for carry on backpack luggage not personal items or purses. 😀
  9. My sister and her family live in St. Pete. 10 feet above sea level. 15 would put her downstairs largely underwater. They've moved everythign they can to the second floor. They are not in a floodplain so no flood insurance. They left at 8am yesterday morning and are in a hotel in Mobile with 3 kids including one in a wheelchair and 3 dogs. And I assume a good amount of booze to calm their stress. As soon as they can get back in and asses the damage Ill be flying there and spending the week in clean up mode (assuming I can get into the area) I also have a client who works for the Rays leave with his wife and are headed south to pick up mom(68) and grandma (95) who live an hour south and going towards Miami
  10. I believe a good amount of that collection came from Phil Collins
  11. Terrible
  12. Fuck
  13. Wake up Spurs
  14. BJ!!
  15. COYS
  16. Somone want to give me a quick summary on how Europa works as far as advancing etc?
  17. I mean no one should go to Bubba gump or hardrock but has Boudros and Biga falling off that bad? There is also a Paesano and Silo down there. Not to mention a Palm and Bohannans just off the riverwalk.
  18. SAR!
  19. Looked on to me. I think we got a break there
  20. Dont discount inshore fishing. Esp if you want dinner. Roosters, snook. snapper grouper
  21. Work productivity to zero in 7 mins
  22. Oh I forgot. Immingration and customs were easy and fast. I was in first so zero line and right on through. I think he asked if I had anything to declare and done. Then bag onto scanner and out the door. Here is the weird part. Leaving you go through security in the main terminal and then again when you go to the international gates. But no exit passport control or immigration at all. I dont know how they know I left the country. Maybe the airlines give the government a passenger maniftest?
  23. Nope. I spent hours googling. I emailed a charter company way down south and asked if they knew anyone in the Costa area. I asked the hotel. I asked the waiter at one of the restaurants. Apparently per my bartender in El Tunco. Sport fishing is simply not a thing. And esp not during rainy season. Ill just save it for my next CR visit. I did find someone in the El Tunco area to take me out in a panga but I already had plans to do the waterfoll hike. I mentioned this to the guy sitting next to me flying who works for SWA in El Salvador and he mentioned that as far as he knows there arent any deep water ports or marinas to speak of. Maybe this is a business opportunity.
  24. Overall. I give it an 8. I honestly did not do enough planning so I missed some spots and the weather wasnt the best; rainy season should have been ending but hadnt and it was off season so things were relatively quiet. Also. El Salvador is not cheap by any means. Its not expensive but for a CA country its definitley not cheap. Driving is no issue. Roads are good except when you get off the main road then they turn into bombing ranges. Costa del Sol. I went here because I was told there might be some fishing guides. There were not. It was dead. They are buidling down there but its going to be a few years before its much of a tourist destination. Seems like its more of a place designed for Salvadorians to vaca. El Tunco area. Awesome. Nice hotel on the cliff. Fun hanging out down in the El Tunco beach street. My trip to the falls was cxld when we got to town and the tourism office closed the trail to the falls due to rain. Reason to go back. I took the scenic route along the coast from El Zonte/Tunco area up to the lake. Takes you through 5 tunnels. fun drive and way better than the highway through San Salvador. Once I made the turn to the lake off the main hwy the roads got more and more narrow and curvy. A tad intense tbh Lago de Coatepeque was awesome. Just surreal and stunning to be staying on a lake inside a volanco crater. Found a nice hotel behind a giant metal door. Typical CA type little town.Not a place for the cancun/cabo types. Dirt roads with pot holes the size of my rental, stray dogs etc. One night around 7 I got just a tad hungry and remembered there was a hot dog stand about 20 yards down the street. I go. order my dog and I turn around back to my hotel and there are two military dudes in camo holding automatic rifles at the ready standing in from of my hotel. No idea why or where they even came from. Hike up Santa Ana. This was not easy. And I workout 5 days a week. Lots of mtn bike riding but man 2100m and two hours of a pretty precarious trail. Everything hurt after that but the view of the crater was fantastic. I cut my trip short one day because I had planned a pool lake day and it started raining around noon and wasnt going to stop so no reason to just sit in a hotel room. Pics in order. View from balcony at Tesoro Beach Hotel in Costa del Sol View from hotel bar/restaurant in El Tunco area Hotel poolside patio on the lake. Coffee on the lake. Hot dog gathered under military guard. Lobster at Betos on the way out of town. Whole fish on the lake. Guide at the start. Crater view with clouds. It was worse 10 mins earlier. But our guide who has hike the crater 700 times said. Wait 15 mins and bam. Completely clear. Last one was the view from Betos where I ate the lobster.
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