Travelman wrote:
I get a little surprised with how some talk of the girls and their experiences. But we are certainly all different and have had differing experiences.
What do you find surprising? Pretty much plain vanilla FS/BBBJ with the occasional culito bandito throw in.
Travelman wrote:
Wouldn't it be interesting to have a REAL way to track the numbers of trips and different locations we all have had to go along with the numbers of posts.
I don't know that it would tell us much. What if I made twenty trips but did the same thing every trip? What if I made a lot of fairly short trips so I didn't have time to do lots of different things, just hit what I like? What if my idea of a "10" is a 45 year old indigenous woman who is shaped like a beer keg and has red teeth? What if I am a world traveler who has been everywhere but just got internet savvy and haven't posted much?
I guess my question is, what are you having a hard time with? Yes, there are diverse opinions on very similar experiences. That is good. For me, the trick is to figure out which guys like what I like and look for their stuff.
Just because we disagree does not make either of us wrong. For instance, Berk is going to tell you that "it's all about the money" and I'm going to tell you that you can pay less and have a better time if you work it a bit. We are both right: For Berk it's about the money and for me the money is only part of it. We will both tell you not to fall in love and never to send money.
Travelman wrote:
YES I know there is no way to do it but I would bet it would be interesting to look at mind sets, philosophies etc. if you could really look at each of our experiences.
I spent part of every day for seven weeks, starting before Labor Day and extending past mid-October, at the Sportsman's Lodge and the Del Rey hanging with a variety of CRTers. It was an interesting experience as the crowd changed almost daily. Sometimes it was the vets, like Labor Day weekend. Sometimes it was the older guys who come down for longer periods. Sometimes it was younger guys who had been before blasting through for a weekend and sometimes it was newbies my own age stumbling in with their mouths hanging open. It takes all kinds and they were all fun to hang with. I highly recommend putting faces to as many of the monikers as possible.
Travelman wrote:
Of course I guess age would have a lot to do with it too.
Not as much as you might think. Some of the older guys got a late start stuck in a marriage for XX years. Some guys have other issues regardless of age. I would say life experiences, motivation and personal freedom shape the monger, among a host of other things.
It's funny, some of our best posters (statisticians, restaurant reviewers, philosophers, resident good fellas) don't monger much anymore. I don't think it makes their opinions less relevant if they haven't laid out cash fer gash in awhile (or...not directly, at least).
Travelman wrote:
We do seem to all fall into a few different categories of posters. I just wonder what parameters and experiences put us in the different slots. I am not even sure I could come up with what all the categories are?
Oh well this is too philosophical a topic with no resolution.
But interesting to consider. Many things effect the way we look at mongering, like income and marital status and sexual preference and attraction/confidence levels and other stuff as well.
Same goes for posting. Some people have a hard time putting it on paper and for some it comes easy. Some people don't want to have their opinions known or don't want them analyzed, some could care less. It's all good.
Your response was exactly the kind of diverse response that made me write the post! You must be a everything is black and white guy. I see the world as gray.I am a 300 posts in 2 years and change guy. You are a 1400 posts in 10 months guy.
You write your answer as though my thought is foolish. I read yours as the diversity I see and am curious about on the board.
I was only thinking out loud (in writing). This is exactly what I mean by it would be interesting to know more.
I am a 16+ trips to the CR in 2 years. A couple of week longers and the rest long weekends.
I have also been to Thailand, DR, and the PI multiple times. Rio and Columbia once.
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). I had some men tell me thanks for the great time. It wouldn't have been that great for me, because the woman was not really interested in me, but the money. With the other man, she got both. A win for all three of us, and I moved on to a much better experience.
