Bonaire Trip Report

On Nov 30, 2:40 pm, hierophantf...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 29, 3:57 pm, Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 29, 11:33 am, hierophantf...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Maybe I should buy a pack before I go, just in case. If I don't use
> > them in drinks, I can always hand them out to little kids so they can
> > have umbrellas with their rum drinks. I'd hate to think of a poor
> > Bonairean child without an umbrella for his rum drink.
>
> You have a very warped sense of humor. I like it.

I was dropped on my head one too many times as a child.

> I'm on a credit card free basis right now. I was getting too carried
> away with them and not able to pay in full every month. I hate paying
> interest.

I pay them (it) off in full every month too. The hard part is getting
the money to do that. I've been lucky so far as money always seems to
drop in my lap when I really, really need it. But one day my luck
will run out and then I'll be running, perhaps to Venezuela where
there's no extradition, yet I could easily hop back and forth to
Bonaire whenever I want.

> I don't think your wife would be amused if you became a bigamist.

You think she'd rather I just have an affair? Maybe so.

> Not the chicken part but the part about you getting a ride from some
> wild and crazy guys. I don't think Antonio Banderas was in Dusk Til
> Dawn. It was George Clooney and Quinton Tarantino and a bunch of
> vampires.

Hmmm. You seem to be right. I saw that too, but I don't remember a
chicken.

Robert Rodriguez made Desperado a year before he made From Dusk Till
Dawn. Desperado had Antonio as El Mariachi. Salma Halyek, Cheech
Marin, Quentin Tarantino, and Danny Trejo starred in both movies.

So I was close?

But consider me the George Clooney character if you like. I can live
with that. I can't live with you comparing me to Tarantino. I hate
Tarantino (as an actor).

> We left our truck windows open as per instructions from Buddy Dive.
> Of course we didn't take anything valuable but we did have those vinyl
> coolers with some water and beach towels, sunglasses, etc. Nothing
> was taken.

That's not bad at all. I figured they'd take everything.

> I don't want you to get lost. Tell Janna to ask for directions. Have
> a safe trip and a great time !! I'll look forward to your report.

Thanks, and we will.

I'm already in deep water because it turns out Janna's BC weight
pockets didn't come back with the BC after I had picked it up from
being serviced, and of course this is my fault. She can dive with a
weight belt, but hopefully we can find a pair of weight pockets on the
island or she'll make my vacation miserable. I hate ScubaPro and
their damn weight pockets. My Zeagle makes it real easy: pockets sewn
right into the BC. Impossible to forget.

Hopefully someone on the island is enterprising enough to stock them.
I can't believe we'd be the only divers who lost or forgot to pack SP
weight pockets and would pay up the nose for replacements.