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Prologue

In case you missed the subject line, this was from my first trip in 2007. Yes, 2007! No need to write me advice on what I did wrong. I have since learned from my mistakes. I am posting this so Newbies of 2011 can see what my first trip was like

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From 2007

My first day of Stupidity

Ok, this should be a sign of how my trip was going to start. I got a notice in the mail that said the electricity was going to be off at my house from 2:00am-4:00am. I had to get up at 3:30am to get to my flight so got ready in the dark. Oh, my alarm didn't go off either (cell phone)

So, I make it the airport and fly to Costa Rica. My rental car cost$27/day the insurance $34/day. What a deal! So, I drive over to Holiday Inn Aurola. You didn't tell me it was in the in the center of the sex district! So, I step out to get a taxi to go to Hotel Del Rey when I look over and see it across the street.

I walk over there and I am approached by a guy that wants to "help" me. Ordinarily I would wave this guy off, but he was pretty mellow, not pushy. I struck up a conversation with him and he told me he was from Califorinia (1/2 Costa Rican) and he was avoiding a jail sentence for vehicular homocide. He killed somebody driving drunk. Well, he and I talked for about 1/2 hour. He was a wealth of information about places to visit, etc. He gave me the "walking tour" of massage parlors etc. He didn't ask for it, but I gave him 5000 Colones tip. He really spent a lot of time with me.

So now I have the lay of the land (pun alert) and I am off to Hotel Del Rey. Maybe because it was Sunday, but I felt most of the girls in there were of AKC quality. Finally I see a really cute girl, big breasts. I strike up a conversation with her and she fails my test: Cuantos ninos tiene? She has "uno". Ok, so we dicker on price and I "pull up" and leave. I walk the joint talking to this ho and that ho and GODAMMIT THEY ALL HAVE "NINOS"!

If they have ninos, that means several things 1) Prune belly 2)loose pu*sy 3) Saggy tits. So, since the first hottie had only one, I cave-in! I go full price $100 (54, 000 colones). S

She follows me back to the hotel complaining that I didn't get a taxi. I argued "Why? So they can turn the corner? We enter the hotel and that's when I get hit with the "I got to check in" at the desk, they want $47 for the "guest" and I have to sign a huge contract of liability. Needless to say, I am doubly screwed. I pay it because I am now participating in the folly. Up to the room, quick sex, smelly pu*sy, fake tits, prune belly. Yuck. I am done. I walk her back to Hotel Del Rey because after all I am "liable" for any destruction that happens in the hotel.

So, first day I spent $147 for basically nothing I couldn't have got in the USA for that amount.

Personally the best money I spent so far is for the drunk's advice and walking tour of the sex district.

Sorry Dude, you posted it, so I think you want us to play a sort of "Where's Waldo" with your errors.

1) Rental Car in CR when you were staying in the city; big error, if you are traveling the country, not so much, but based on the way Ticos drive, maybe so.
2) Talking to the CA Retard. He is still there, and in the biz. I was in Idem and he was showing some und***ge K*D the scene.
3) The Holiday INN, bad decision, but I have done the same thing. Its location is great, but the gues fee is the worst.
4) 99.9% of hookers have K*ds, otherwise they probably wouldn't have to hook.

Did I miss any Waldos?

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“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” And we are the guys that keep them in Eggs & Grits

Nope, you found them all except #1, I was planning and did drive all over the country.

I've been back to CR like 4 times since and I've never seen the CA dude. I can't believe he's still around. I think back when I first put that up, people said he has a different story all the time. I still think he did me a favor during the first few hours there of showing me where everything was. Some say I over tipped him, but paying him 5K colones wasn't the worst money mistake I made during that trip.

I stayed at Holiday Inn for the dumbest reason, I had enough points. The "chica fee" took that freebie away.

Oh, yeah, I've grown to except that they all have K*ds now. I don't know what I was thinking back in 2007, but I didn't think they had K*ds at all and somehow I had a streak of bad luck that first night.

Thanks for looking.

I ran into the CA dude on my first trip after a hiatus of 5 years, in 2006 or 7, same line of BS. I was dropping a friend off at the airport once and there was some gringo started giving him some bs scam about being bit by a spider or something. Same old song and dance. As far as chicks w/o K*ds are concerned, I had two during this last trip and one was good and the other just OK, still I think that will be on my list of nice to have going forward. As far as driving across the country, I did it from Panama once and down to Guanacaste once and will probably never do it again.

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“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” And we are the guys that keep them in Eggs & Grits

Hey TimBones, I will be a first timer to CR this September and wont be mongering 24/7 so I have arranged to rent a motorcycle from http://www.wild-rider.com to explore Arenal, Jaco, Guanacast regions etc. Does your comment stem from lack of interest in exploring these days or is there a real safety concern I should be aware of regarding local drivers and road conditions in CR?

Any must see towns/ areas I should research for great scenery or mongering potential outside of SJO and Jaco?

Cheers,

TB

The only problem I ever had was when I was catching the ferry at Puentarenas to go to the Nicoya penisula. Some punk came and showed me a map when I got out the the car and then followed me to get a ferry ticket. When I got back to my car, he wanted a tip. I offered him some coins and he spit on the ground "I don't work for coins." So, I got in the car when some dude in a uniform comes and knocks on my window and told me I owed this punk something. I asked "for what?" and that dude looked pissed like he wanted to fight. I started to get out go toe to toe with him when he told me he let the cars on the ferry and he wouldn't let me go. Then, I thought I was being threatened with not being allowed on the ferry, so I offered some bills to the guy and the punk got pissed "why you pay him and no me". I think he shared it with him, but some Costa Rican guy told me he took a picture to report them and I shouldn't have given any money. He said that dock guy shouldn't have helped the punk.