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justhookit

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  1. I don’t have time for the details now, but in about an hour my wife and I will be headed to the Barcelona airport for the 3rd time in 3 days to try and fly home. Day 1 they cancelled our flight after everyone had been on board for 2 hours. Day 2 they cancelled the flight an hour before departure. Can’t wait to see what fun we have in store for us today. Good news is I now know where to find good cheap beer at BCN. As a United and Southwest flyer the lack of customer service from AA has been shocking. Fuck these people.
  2. I always tell people to spend as little time as possible in San Jose. You are very near Escazu. Avenida Escazu has great restaurants and some shopping. There’s an excellent Capitol Grill, a very good Italian restaurant, a Peruvian restaurant, and more.
  3. Man the best surf fishing trip I ever had was at that jetty in May about 10 years ago. Crystal clear water flat surf and fish everywhere chasing mullet. Caught well over 200 bull reds, kingfish, jacks, and tarpon. Also had a sailfish show just out of casting range.
  4. I love basketball. I love women. I will never watch a second of WNBA basketball. It’s trash.
  5. Finally found the translation and it turns out the reference to Dallas isn’t interesting. He might as well have called out the two of us from Port Aransas or maybe just said “muledick”. It’s been an incredible trip so far due to timing that was pure luck. After the pope we have managed to hit Monaco as they are staging for next weekend’s F1 race and then traveled over to Cannes film festival. Cruise has been on a small ship (Windstar line) and has hit some really cool places between Italy and France. We arrive Barcelona in 2 days which is probably what I’m looking forward to most. so far Portofino Italy has been our favorite stop on the cruise.Absolutely stunning scenery and the locals all got a kick out of our boat name.
  6. It appears to be 1. Possibly more?
  7. Wife and I had lunch in Ferrara on our way from Venice to Florence a few days ago so looks like you were there. Currently in Portofino. This is my first time in Italy and absolutely loving it so far.
  8. That’s crazy. I have to put at least an hour or 2 per month making a trip to nowhere on my diesel engines just to keep all the moving parts working.
  9. Josh Garcia. Great, funny guy and also a Longhorn.
  10. We were able to get about halfway inside the square to see Leo at noon. We got there later than we wanted but it worked out because by the time he started speaking people were lined out way outside the actual square. Really, really cool to be there even though I didn’t understand a thing he said. My Italian needs some work. He did mention Dallas, TX for some reason and that seemed to be the only reference he made to the United States. Internet here is shit but I will try to post more when I have better service.
  11. Food has ranged from really good to outstanding. Wine even better than that. No gelato yet, we get plenty of that in Costa Rica but will definitely try some at some point before we leave. From here we go on a small ship cruise up the coast of Italy and France on over to Barcelona. Overall it’s been a great trip and we are already planning our return for next April when it’s a little less crowded. Florence and Venice were packed.
  12. Wife and I have been in Italy for a week. Venice then Florence and arrived Rome via Siena earlier today. Plan on waking up early and walking from our hotel and seeing how close we can get to his first mass, I’m guessing not close but it’s surprisingly not very crowded here yet. We were expecting a lot more people around. In talking to locals they seem pretty meh on the choice. I’ll post whatever pictures we can get tomorrow. ive never been to Italy before and this trip was planned about 6 months ago so the timing is amazing and a once in a lifetime chance to see a small part of history.
  13. I’m in Italy. I haven’t seen a Duke transfer here.
  14. We use the hell out of trusted housesitters. Have had nothing but great experiences with the service and it has saved me a ton of money.
  15. I didn’t realize masks prevented people from talking on a plane, but ok.
  16. Costa Rica Sailfish season is over, I’m back home now. I’ll head back down for marlin season in July. 793 sailfish bites and 26 marlin bites in 27 days of fishing. Released 485 and 16. Not bad. Actually pretty great it was the best fishing down there in about 5 years. Our ratio needs to be closer to 70-75% or better but we had a lot of beginners fishing with us this year. IMG_1078.mov
  17. I mean it’s BO&W. He might be serious.
  18. I drove through Santa Ana twice this week but never got off the main road. It seems way different than Grecia and Atenas. You would definitely have a lot more shopping and dining options there and it would feel like living in/near a big city. Not sure if that is a positive or negative for you but I have learned to fucking hate the San Jose traffic.
  19. I’m not fluent but can get by fine. Anytime I am trying to do something important I always take a Tico friend because it is really helpful and keeps you from getting ripped off. They will definitely take advantage of gringos if you don’t speak their language. edit- also what @midtown said about being sure about where you want to buy is really good advice. I’d go so far as to suggest renting in each area that interests you to get a feel about what it is really like to live there.
  20. I am in Escazu right now and it is fucking great. I’m only driven through Atenas and Santa Ana but @midtownprobably has some thoughts.
  21. I mean I know not to start this, but you are off base on some of your assumptions and especially that we didn’t look at anyone except Miller.
  22. I haven’t been down there in years but you should love it. Hopefully your friends have you going into Corcovado National Park. It’s amazing.
  23. There was some confusion in the other thread - this was 840 kilos of COCAINE not weed. Crazy.
  24. The 840 kilos was cocaine. sorry that was a little confusing. 3 days ago was a big weed bust. Yesterday was the coke bust.
  25. It’s not exactly fishing, but cross posting it from the Costa Rica thread anyway. I’m sure some of y’all have heard the Florida term square grouper before. Anyway, 2 days ago there was a large weed bust here involving a commercial longline fishing boat. But this is insane. Posted just now 840 kilos. This was about 200 yards away from me today at the marina fuel dock. Joint DEA and Costa Rican operation seized it last night/this morning. They apparently knew it was coming in because they hade been stopping private fishing boats for a few days which they basically never do. It was an older charter boat that had been here in the marina a long time and I believe recently sold.
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