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Arriving 9/2, taxi anyone?
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Author:  Dean [ Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:33 am ]
Post subject:  Arriving 9/2, taxi anyone?
I arrive 9/2 on AA flt 937 arriving 1pm. If anyone is coming around that time let me know here or PM if you want to share a taxi. I do go upstairs to exchange cash, other than that, direct to La Amistad then for a MP release.

Dean
Author:  DougCdn [ Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:29 pm ]
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Dean, I will be there before you, but the same offer is on for Aug 31st at about 2pm.

Look for me at LA - tall, slim, grey hair, beard, glasses.

Dougie
Author:  Klockman [ Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:32 pm ]
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I arrive about an hour before you, but I'll be wanting to get to HLH and get my first chica, I will be at SL shortly thereafter, look for a tall handsome bald guy with glasses, or just yell out "Keith, you forgot your beer" and I'm sure I'll find you

Cheers


EDit: I arrive on the 2nd, not the 31st
Author:  DougCdn [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:39 am ]
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Ok guys, see you soon. I'm sitting in Charlotte awaiting my flight - just 4 hrs to tica time! So Keith from TO, I will keep an eye out for another handsome tall bald guy, minus a beard.
"Doug"
Author:  Tague21 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:40 pm ]
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A friend and I just got back from our first trip to San Jose. Just wanted let you guys know of an incident that happened to us when we first stepped out of the airport.

We are looking for the bank at the airport to make a currency exchange. We ask a guy who seems to be a taxi driver where the bank is. He says.."no..don't go to the bank..the cops will not let you in the bank to make a currency exchange..they will demand a bribe..." He is taking fast and since we didn't know any better we guess that what he is saying is true. He asks where we are staying (HDR) and offers to take us into town for $22. We agree.

His car wasn't the orange type taxi. It looked like a civilian car. My friend gets in the back and for some reason it occurs to me to go in the front seat. My logic was to take a slightly more confident stance or whatever.

So he pulls out a receipt book and asks me for my name. I give him my first name but then give him a different last name. He then asks me for my passport number and I quickly say that I am not giving him that. He says he needs it for the receipt. I again refuse. My friend offers to give him his (he later told me he gave a fake number). Throughout our trip we took several taxis and none ever asked for our name much less passport number. Was the taxi guy trying to scam us?

My friend later joked that I acted like a rude ugly american..LOL
Author:  SnapperTrapper [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:56 pm ]
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Tague21 wrote:
A friend and I just got back from our first trip to San Jose. Just wanted let you guys know of an incident that happened to us when we first stepped out of the airport.

We are looking for the bank at the airport to make a currency exchange. We ask a guy who seems to be a taxi driver where the bank is. He says.."no..don't go to the bank..the cops will not let you in the bank to make a currency exchange..they will demand a bribe..." He is taking fast and since we didn't know any better we guess that what he is saying is true. He asks where we are staying (HDR) and offers to take us into town for $22. We agree.

His car wasn't the orange type taxi. It looked like a civilian car. My friend gets in the back and for some reason it occurs to me to go in the front seat. My logic was to take a slightly more confident stance or whatever.

So he pulls out a receipt book and asks me for my name. I give him my first name but then give him a different last name. He then asks me for my passport number and I quickly say that I am not giving him that. He says he needs it for the receipt. I again refuse. My friend offers to give him his (he later told me he gave a fake number). Throughout our trip we took several taxis and none ever asked for our name much less passport number. Was the taxi guy trying to scam us?

My friend later joked that I acted like a rude ugly american..LOL


Sounds fishy to me. I’ve never had that happen to me although I always take the cabs that are properly marked. Reading the CRT should have given you some sort of heads up in regards to taking cabs. Glad you made it out ok. :?
Author:  Nhhank [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:33 pm ]
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That was a pirate taxi
I used them before I knew better w/o a problem
The line about the bank is BS

Now I do not know why brother Dean wants to save money
I hear he is loaded(most of the time)
He will not need a taxi, He will con the Duty-free girl to quit here job on the spot and drive him to the gulch Once there he will offer her a glass of water, from the tap, and a free one
Thats game :D
Author:  Dean [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:05 pm ]
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When instituting the quit your job, give me a ride for a glass of water maneuver, one must be sure to put ice in the water. It is critical that she has a cold glass of water which can not happen directly from the tap. It is all outlined in a book I read called "The Mongering Moocher" published by Cambridge Press, located near where the author lives. His name eludes me at the moment, I believe it is Njjoe, but that is just his alias.

For instance, eating for free, "Vermont Viddles".

You go to dinner with a CRT brother and when the check arrives you pull out the copy of your passport, say "Oh no". You feverishly frisk all your pockets, then say "Damn". You tell the CRT buddy that you thought you put your money with your paperwork and it's not there. You say you hope you didn't drop it and the CRT guy starts feeling a bit sorry for you. Then you tell him to wait here and you will go to the hotel. Now, you obviously don't have money for a taxi and you are willing to walk it. But, during dinner, you tell him about some hidden MP where the girls are 10's and plan on going after dinner with him. He will not be willing to wait for you to walk so he will pick up the tab. You insist on getting him next time. It is critical that you do not stay at the same hotel so you don't cross paths at a later date. Since you are so worried about losing your money, you are not in the mood to go to the MP. You just want to walk back to the hotel to clear your head.

Njjoe is one shrewed shyster.

:D
Dean
Author:  Dboy [ Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:55 pm ]
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Dean,

I arrive 9/2 also, on US flt 1773 from Charlotte, arriving 1:30 pm. I'm staying at La Amistad too. I'd like to share a taxi. I'll PM you.
Author:  Dean [ Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:55 am ]
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Well, will you look at this, Nh. I guess it always works out for the good guys. I am leaving for the airport. Nothing like packing a ham, egg, pizza cheese, chopped onions & peppers sandwich for the plane. :D

Dean
Author:  Klockman [ Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:37 am ]
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DougCdn wrote:
Ok guys, see you soon. I'm sitting in Charlotte awaiting my flight - just 4 hrs to tica time! So Keith from TO, I will keep an eye out for another handsome tall bald guy, minus a beard.
"Doug"


Allllllllllllllllllllllllrighty, omw.

Should be at the SL between 2-3 this afternoon after I check in and set my current batch of soldiers free
Author:  DougCdn [ Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:03 am ]
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Klockman, see ya at the hotel or down the street. Banff T-shirt today.

\\\\\\\\\dougie
Author:  Klockman [ Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:17 am ]
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DougCdn wrote:
Klockman, see ya at the hotel or down the street. Banff T-shirt today.

\\\\\\\\\dougie


I´m wearing...

Red T'shirt, may or may not have black baseball cap on.

Shirt says ROOTS 1973

Will be wearing out the sidewalk between HLH and SL with the occasional stop at the HDR to check that scene


Cheers
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