Costa Rica, One heck of a surprise . . . ~

gR33nDav3l0l

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There's plenty of beautiful places and destinations in all of Latin america. I gotta say, I've never considered anywhere in these here lands as "exotic", tropical and jungle seems pretty normal to me :hump::hump:.
 
guy incognito

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Scooby is in it for the long con. The first couple trips go fantastic, everyone becomes his friend and visits, and before you know it instead of a single scalped pony tail he has hundreds.

 
ScoobyDoobyDoo

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gR33nDav3l0l said:
There's plenty of beautiful places and destinations in all of Latin america. I gotta say, I've never considered anywhere in these here lands as "exotic", tropical and jungle seems pretty normal to me :hump::hump:.
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no idea what you consider exotic but i've been ALL over the world and to some of the most remote places and the jungles here rival those of anywhere in the world. And those pics i just posted aren't jungle pics. They are pics from a small island off the coast of Panama. Come on down to Costa Rica and i'll show you the "jungle" We'll see if you have what it takes to survive. LOL
 
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gR33nDav3l0l said:
There's plenty of beautiful places and destinations in all of Latin america. I gotta say, I've never considered anywhere in these here lands as "exotic", tropical and jungle seems pretty normal to me :hump::hump:.
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It's not the norm around here however.

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Note the Brown bear tracks to the left of the wheeler tracks. :cool:
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gR33nDav3l0l

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ScoobyDoobyDoo said:
no idea what you consider exotic but i've been ALL over the world and to some of the most remote places and the jungles here rival those of anywhere in the world. And those pics i just posted aren't jungle pics. They are pics from a small island off the coast of Panama. Come on down to Costa Rica and i'll show you the "jungle" We'll see if you have what it takes to survive. LOL
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Yo I live in Guatemala, I'm pretty used to the setting, I share the culture, hence why I say I find it normal. Exotic to me would be the site of snow.
 
ScoobyDoobyDoo

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gR33nDav3l0l said:
Yo I live in Guatemala, I'm pretty used to the setting, I share the culture, hence why I say I find it normal. Exotic to me would be the site of snow.
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i hear ya on that one...lol. i'm from NY and get back often but still get amazed by the sight of snow if i'm there in the winter.
 
ScoobyDoobyDoo

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So I got the scoop on the indigenous spheres. They started finding them when the United Fruit Company was digging here 110 years ago. Most of the ones you see now are fake though because the true indigenous ones either cracked over time or are property of the government. There are still some real ones like the ones you saw at the Coast Guard station and the ones by the INS building. Most of the ones you see are actually concrete. The Company started doing it because people wanted their own ones for their houses or in front of office buildings. That's why they have the metal ring at the bottom. It was used as a way to lift the sphere for transport. There are still a few places in the country that make them including a place pretty close by. They use concrete and black ocre and then pour buttermilk on it to induce mold. You can still tell the difference if you look closely at the chipping of the stone though. I had an old timer verify the 2 that i bought were indigenous.

I was given this as a gift today. It's a pre-Colombian rolling stone for tortillas or whatever they were rolling out back then. It weighs a ton. We pressure washed it and now it's drying. Gonna use it as the centerpiece of the coffee table after the remodel.

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Also pulled these out of the closet and i'm going to make a piece of are or frame them. The vintage and winery's are some of the best in the world.

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ScoobyDoobyDoo

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^^^^LIKE^^^^

i don't need to get that close GWN. i'm cool with swimming with the fishies but i don't need to hug any brown bears. LOL.
 
BWG707

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I've heard lots of people say that.
I help them with that wish (I'm a Brown Bear hunting guide) - some times at very close range.
That usually cures them of that desire quickly !
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You know why people in Alaska file the sights off their guns? So it doesn't hurt so bad when a bear shoves it up your ass!
 
Unclebaldrick

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ScoobyDoobyDoo said:
So I got the scoop on the indigenous spheres. They started finding them when the United Fruit Company was digging here 110 years ago. Most of the ones you see now are fake though because the true indigenous ones either cracked over time or are property of the government. There are still some real ones like the ones you saw at the Coast Guard station and the ones by the INS building. Most of the ones you see are actually concrete. The Company started doing it because people wanted their own ones for their houses or in front of office buildings. That's why they have the metal ring at the bottom. It was used as a way to lift the sphere for transport. There are still a few places in the country that make them including a place pretty close by. They use concrete and black ocre and then pour buttermilk on it to induce mold. You can still tell the difference if you look closely at the chipping of the stone though. I had an old timer verify the 2 that i bought were indigenous.

I was given this as a gift today. It's a pre-Colombian rolling stone for tortillas or whatever they were rolling out back then. It weighs a ton. We pressure washed it and now it's drying. Gonna use it as the centerpiece of the coffee table after the remodel.

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Also pulled these out of the closet and i'm going to make a piece of are or frame them. The vintage and winery's are some of the best in the world.

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Mmm. united Fruit. Good people.


Hey Scoobie, those are cool but please please please please never pressure wash another pre Columbian anything. Please take my work for it.
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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BWG707 said:
You know why people in Alaska file the sights off their guns? So it doesn't hurt so bad when a bear shoves it up your ass!
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That joke typically involves a cheechako that's packing a .44 Mag they intend on using as a bear defensive weapon.
The bears that live around here think those tickle.


Now the Holland and Holland is quite a different story. :shock:
 

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I've heard lots of people say that.
I help them with that wish (I'm a Brown Bear hunting guide) - some times at very close range.
That usually cures them of that desire quickly !
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I don't want to touch or feed a bear, or kill it, I want to see them being bears and killing stuff like elks and shit, I like observing decks too :joint:
Down here there are bears at the zoo, but it's so hot here they just stay in their pools in the shade all day. Poor bears.
 
gR33nDav3l0l

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That stone can still be used to work with maize. I would surely make some masa for tortillas with that shit in a second. Awesome back and shoulder work out too. Here there are still plenty of ancient and current ones in use in several tortillerias in the country.
Never heard about washing them though.

Man the UFCO can suck my ass.
 
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