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I laminated the Face page of my passport in color. Will this be ok to carry in case of trouble? It is wallet size..

You will also need a copy of your entry stamp.

Yes that is actually the best thing to have as long as, like Skink stated, you have a copy of your entry stamp on the back. A few days ago when the police came in checking la Mansion, My friend and I both had just the credit card size laminated copy. NO problem, no one questioned the validity of using this, everything was fine. If confronted by the police, just remain calm, be relaxed (for the most part they are just doing their job), be polite, don't act arrogant, don't have an attitude and there will be no problem. If they were to give you a hassle over the copy and try to get you to "pay a fine" on the spot, tell them to take you to your hotel room and you will be glad to show them your actual passport which under the USA and CR treaty you are not required to carry while here (just the copy) OR they can take you in! In 99.999% of the cases they are not going to carry you in because they know they are in the wrong and they are just trying to get a 'bribe' out of you!! As long as guys continue to "fold" and pay the bribe, the "bad" cops will continue to try to extort money from us!

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Old and retired but still bang, and bang, and bang!!!

Exactly. Bad stuff happens to good guys if the majority cave to improperly exercised/illegal authority. Simple as that. Remember to not confront them directly--That will get a cop's back up anywhere--logic and calmness should prevail--including calmly asking for higher authority to step in.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Last time I was in town, the entry stamp didn't copy well, they actually had to write in the date. I also carry a copy of my boarding pass.

Dean

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."

Have recommend carrying your boarding pass for years. It is better then the copy of your entry stamp, which you also have, which could have been copied from someone elses passport. Your boarding pass stub shows your name flight number and date.

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alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

More honest information never hurts. I think I remember reading a while ago, I think it was Orange, but it came in handy one time, in the parque. If you are a tourist, just so happens you want to hang glide your clean sack in a ticas mouth, well, glide away! But, paperwork is of most importance, to a sackster, let it hang


Dean

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."

Lol Dean @ the sackster...But thanks for the Boarding pass info...Ill carry that too...