Advice/vibes need for some Jackson, WY locals who are in trouble.

[Viva]

no way man, I'd rather take an Audi S4 avant to Cuzco.

Heh, "Cuzco"! Is that what they call Costco in Watts?

[neckdeep]

Turns out someone else already has the rights to "High Drama: Honeymoon Hostage." It's not Peru but Ecuador is close. More proof that everythings already been done...way better story too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WNl-w_8MYCs

[HansJob]

How existential. can't fucking believe their naivete.

[fastfred]

I lost it so hard about 6 times reading this. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

you need to get back on the pipe and chillax bro

[spook]

Turns out someone else already has the rights to "High Drama: Honeymoon Hostage." It's not Peru but Ecuador is close. More proof that everythings already been done...way better story too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WNl-w_8MYCs

yeah, but the reality tv genre is all about self-inflicted stupidity compounded by the inability to deal with it. we've degraded. it just might work in 2013.

[Esses]

I've read about 2/3rds of the thread. Surprised this hasn't been pointed out...

We were drinking two beers between the three of us because it was my 30th birthday and we were celebrating.

Two beers between three people? Really?

[userA]

because they were trying to look like dirtbags sharing the bottle instead of the yuppies they are.

[mtngirl79]

Turns out someone else already has the rights to "High Drama: Honeymoon Hostage." It's not Peru but Ecuador is close. More proof that everythings already been done...way better story too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WNl-w_8MYCs

Anyone else watch this whole thing? I cannot decide how I feel about letting the guy walk.

[creaky fossil]

Either I've been following TGR too often (because I am core) or you are healthy enough to have followed the site too little. Your choice

Choice? If I could choose all by myself, for myself, I wouldn't come here and let DoWork tell me what I am and what I need to do because I'm doing it wrong!

[DoWork]

Choice? If I could choose all by myself, for myself, I wouldn't come here and let DoWork tell me what I am and what I need to do because I'm doing it wrong!

Oh well in that case, you're a fucking crybaby and you need to shut the fuck up because you're doing it wrong. Didn't anyone tell you that pissing and moaning isn't allowed West of Casper if you wanna be an ubercorebro, brah? Butch up. It's the internet. Nobody cares. Nobody made you come here and start flapping your e-gums, then get pissy when random people don't respect you instantly, so excuse me for reminding you that you can kiss my cyber-ass if you can't laugh about this shit.


Or- here's a thought- you could lighten up and make some jokes at others' expenses/troll a bit and laugh at this thread becoming the proverbial porchlight to the moths that are hardass can't-wait-to-tell-everyone-how-core-I-am Jackson transplants like the carfax threads of yore could only dream of. I can't believe Rog hasn't come in here to tell us about every trip he's ever taken to CA/SA, how some break there reminds him of the swells from Punta Cana that one time, and how he caught syphilis from some toothless milf he picked up in some park and ride outside Lima once. THEN it would be complete.


But if you're new here and think people actually care how core you are in this thread, then I'm sorry someone misled you. This just isn't one of those threads dude. Those are in Tech Talk. This is a shitshow, and one does not simply... Walk into a shitshow and start making sense from swinging dick. Mmmmkay? Cool. I'm glad we got somewhere today.

[Danno]

Or- here's a thought- you could lighten up and make some jokes at others' expenses/troll a bit and laugh

Hi DoWork, it appears you're new here and haven't yet met creaky fossil. Introduce yourself and enjoy your stay!

[soylent green]

I joined this forum to comment on this thread. I been living in the hole a long ass time. I came from the west not the east.

That is right I am here to jong, QB or whatever you want to call it.

These three folks fucked up in a big way. I have driven from Jackson to Panama twice, just me and my dog. I spent 4 months on the road the first time and all but 2 weeks of that was spent camping. All of Baja, all of mainland Mexico including the Mex200, and all of CA. The best advice in this thread comes from tommyvee, he knows exactly what he is talking about which any experienced traveler can easily tell.

I drove down in a nice truck, a real nice one. I had some gear in it too but not a lot other than the truck, some boats and some boards. I didn't take a laptop, a GPS or any of that crap, I wrote about the trip once I got home. Nobody gave me any gear or a super sweet camper before I left, I piad for it all on my dime. I had plenty of sketchy situations and was robbed. But I only was robbed by cops or officials and I wised up to that shit pretty damn fast. When the cops tried to frame me and then robbed me for well over a grand I didn't make some donations shit on the internet to help me out. When I was rear ended in San Salvador and had to pay to drive away I din't ask for no help. When I found myself stuck down south running out of cash, I sold my gear instead of calling home. Not once was I robbed by a local and only a few times did I feel cased out by any locals. I sat around one night drinking with some MS13 gangsters (not intentional) in El Salvador, these were the real deal, very sketchy characters with tats up on the face and shaved heads. Here I was, "in the wrong place at the wrong time" just having a taco and a beer on the street. They were cool to me because I respected them and didn't ask any stupid questions, I also showed them no fear. In fact I just talked to them like they were human beings without any thought of what they may have done before that conversation. I left my truck loaded up with gear on the streets on Belize (Dangriga) for ten days and had zero problem. Why because I made friends with the locals and was respectful to them. After a while they even took me around to some local music studios which I thought was a real treat, not just anybody gets invited there. I been to Colombia a lot too, seen people shot on the streets there and had a bomb go off a few blocks away from me that killed 11 people. Is it a sketchy way to travel, yes it is but it is also one of the best ways.

I met a very young dude while on the road in Baja hitchhiking from Oregon to Tierra del Fuego on next to no money. Three years later he is still on the road and is down in Peru now. Not a single problem for him in all that time, he is a smart dude.

What is my point of flexing my e-peen? These folks fucked up, that is why. They also should be honest with the world about it since they made their story public and raised over 20grand. Which in my opinion was very premature and played off as needing help to get so and so and such and such. I can't say being ignorant deserves a beat down like they got but hell man wtf does it matter what I think about that I wasn't giving the beat down! I been down there in Latin America lot's, spent 7 months on the road living out of my truck during two trips and so ya I know something about it. You don't go uninvited into a village and if you do the first thing you ask is if it is ok to be there and then you offer a few bucks to camp well before any beers are cracked which you also make sure that is ok. Oh and BTW, it is not a good idea to get drunk with locals. Hell man if I was headed into one of these villages I would want to bring gifts of some sort, books, an old cell phone, anything would do. You also should know more about the local area and it's people then where the next best climbing route is. A few hours on the internet and I feel like I know vastly more than these folks did about Peru and the Ocongate region they were in. A Presidente in these communities is a mayor and the police is made up from the community. Their justice system is swift and often harsh and the have the right by law to enact justice. Look it up for yourself and you will see they have been known to burn cattle rustlers at the stake. I have never once been asked by locals to see my docs but I carry copies of that shit, duh! It would appear odd to me if they did ask but ya know what, I seriously doubt I would have thought a bunch of villagers were going to steal my documents! And if they did, big fucking deal you can get new ones at the embassy real fast plus what kind of person goes to South America in their truck and doesn't have copies stashed back home? Once they showed up to camp and cracked beers and the community showed up the greet them, just bailing out wasn't really an option, they were required to explain themselves. Kind of the same thing up north here where us whities live. The window of opportunity they had to bail was if they knew where the hell they were going, very obviously they didn't, GPS fail!! On their blog they show obvious ignorance to the local peoples by commenting on how horrid they live without even trying to understand it. Very obviously they were ignorant and I am super surprised they made it 9 months without an incident. You also don't boondock camp unless you know it is safe which on their blog you can see they had been doing that a lot.

What sucks about these folks story is not just the beat down they took. Hey even though I think they fucked up it still sucks to lose some teeth over it. The story is also making people who travel by vehicle outside the USA looks like idiots and not because they took a beat down. I have a hard enough time showing locals down south I am not Cpt. Jackass American Tourist without stories like the Wolfrom's going around.

People do trips down the Pan Am all the time. The ones that are dumbasses have problems. The ones that aren't don't. Don't let this story stop you from going south in your own vehicle, it is a hell of a trip and I am hooked on it for sure. But don't go as an asshole from the USA. Spend as much time having fun as getting to know everything you can about local peoples, they have a lot to teach us ignorant white boys.

So my advice, pussies & dumb asses stay home. Don't take what you are not prepared to lose, including your truck and your dog. Piss off some locals and there will be hell to pay on your body and mind be sure of that! Who cares about your wallet or gear if you get out with your life! Oh and I dare some east coasters to come set up camp in my lawn without my permission, then when I come out with my gun, speak something other than english to me. When I ask you to show me who you are and you push me away and then bear spray me. Well, don't be surprised if I shoot your ass and call Teton County Sheriff afterwards! Oh and buy them a beer!? I would if I had more than $500 in the bank! I really would like to hear their story in person. Perhaps they can just do an presentation in town when they get home? With over $20k they got just barely enough to get the teeth fixed here in the hole so I can afford my own beers.

Hubris (pron.: /ˈhjuːbrɪs/), also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις, means extreme pride or arrogance. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.

The adjectival form of hubris is "hubristic".

[userA]

engrish class in session

[XavierD]

Do us all a favor and head out to the hills past darrington. Find an overgrown road and set up camp at the end of it.

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DBS, you foothill hillbillies really don't rate discussion in this thread.

This thread reminds me when an exchange student (English gal) asked me if it would be safe to travel to Alabama with a friend (from bama) and then a month later off handly told me she was traveling to Tijuana; and was surprised when I told her I didn't think that would be a good idea. Worried about southern hospitality but not woried about northern Mexico...

Just another anonymous Internet asshole who thinks these people were fucking stupid, and probably have not learned from their stupidity. After reading several other entries in their blog^ they are dumb, ignorant folks; might be nice, dumb, ignorant folks, but still dumb and ignorant. "this does not reflect the country or people as a whole" - No fucking shit, only someone as dumb and ignorant as them would have failed to realize that in a country as big as Peru that was cobbled together to fit colonial Spanish ambitions, and still features several languages in distinct areas, might not be one homogeneous place where everyone shares the same misgivings and coulture.

Now that I am done armchairing this one, I am gonna go enjoy the fact that I am currently in the USA, and take a hot shower and go get a nice candy-bar-in-a-cup from Starbucks.*
(Maybe it is just because I am from Seattle, but dear god, I allways stop at the first Starbucks** when I get back in the USA)

^Fund our exotic honeymoon that, as worldly people, we are entitled to.

*the Starbucks near me is not bad

** Or equivelant, I highly recomend the mug and bean in South Affrica (food sucks, coffee is good), usually found in malls of some sort.

[Infectiouslyeasty]

The bro-brah stuff is weak. The jibberish in this thread is also weak. No wonder I don't spend time on forums like this....

I didn't come here to prove to anyone how cool I am or how hardcore I am or I been a local longer than you or any of that other stupid teenage bullshit. I came here to say that from my personal experience, which is vast, these folks fucked up in a big way.

That is it, they fucked up and should admit it. You want to go travel down in Latin America in your truck, surf the best breaks in the world and have a good time. Well, then don't go as some asshole who can't even understand how people got so poor or why they dislike gringos. So I encourage anyone to go but if you are a dumbass, expect to pay for your ignorance with bones, teeth, blood and flesh.....who gives a flying fuck about your stuff! And the more of you clueless people who go down there and do that the more stories like this will be debated on the internet.

How many people on this forum have gone to Latin America to surf. Then acted like an asshole in the line up and got a beat down from it? Surf etiquette applies when you are not in the line up too. Duh! It is called respect. How many JH locals would want to kick some out of towners ass for poor ski/boarding etiquette? How many out of towners have got their ass beat down at the local bar because they came here and then acted like a total jackass? How many out of towners die around here every year because they are ignorant? Be it due to avalanche conditions or thinking they can pet the wildlife.

[Soups]

The bro-brah stuff is weak.

Actually from your last couple posts it sounds like the BroBrah stuff is very strong with you

[rideit]

Jeremy, izzat you?

[doughboyshredder]

DBS, you foothill hillbillies really don't rate discussion in this thread.

This thread reminds me when an exchange student (English gal) asked me if it would be safe to travel to Alabama with a friend (from bama) and then a month later off handly told me she was traveling to Tijuana; and was surprised when I told her I didn't think that would be a good idea. Worried about southern hospitality but not woried about northern Mexico...

Just another anonymous Internet asshole who thinks these people were fucking stupid, and probably have not learned from their stupidity. After reading several other entries in their blog^ they are dumb, ignorant folks; might be nice, dumb, ignorant folks, but still dumb and ignorant. "this does not reflect the country or people as a whole" - No fucking shit, only someone as dumb and ignorant as them would have failed to realize that in a country as big as Peru that was cobbled together to fit colonial Spanish ambitions, and still features several languages in distinct areas, might not be one homogeneous place where everyone shares the same misgivings and coulture.

Now that I am done armchairing this one, I am gonna go enjoy the fact that I am currently in the USA, and take a hot shower and go get a nice candy-bar-in-a-cup from Starbucks.*
(Maybe it is just because I am from Seattle, but dear god, I allways stop at the first Starbucks** when I get back in the USA)

^Fund our exotic honeymoon that, as worldly people, we are entitled to.

*the Starbucks near me is not bad

** Or equivelant, I highly recomend the mug and bean in South Affrica (food sucks, coffee is good), usually found in malls of some sort.

I never said anything bad about anybody.

The point I am trying to make is that to besmirch Peru, is unfair when the exact same thing, and worse could happen in any number of places in this country.

[Brocore]

I haven't read this whole thread, but just want to point that I'm core too. Not Hole-Core - BroCore.

[rideit]

East Vail...where brake pads and transition fluid goes to die.

[Skrilla Gorilla]

Oh well in that case, you're a fucking crybaby and you need to shut the fuck up because you're doing it wrong. Didn't anyone tell you that pissing and moaning isn't allowed West of Casper if you wanna be an ubercorebro, brah? Butch up. It's the internet. Nobody cares. Nobody made you come here and start flapping your e-gums, then get pissy when random people don't respect you instantly, so excuse me for reminding you that you can kiss my cyber-ass if you can't laugh about this shit.


Or- here's a thought- you could lighten up and make some jokes at others' expenses/troll a bit and laugh at this thread becoming the proverbial porchlight to the moths that are hardass can't-wait-to-tell-everyone-how-core-I-am Jackson transplants like the carfax threads of yore could only dream of. I can't believe Rog hasn't come in here to tell us about every trip he's ever taken to CA/SA, how some break there reminds him of the swells from Punta Cana that one time, and how he caught syphilis from some toothless milf he picked up in some park and ride outside Lima once. THEN it would be complete.


But if you're new here and think people actually care how core you are in this thread, then I'm sorry someone misled you. This just isn't one of those threads dude. Those are in Tech Talk. This is a shitshow, and one does not simply... Walk into a shitshow and start making sense from swinging dick. Mmmmkay? Cool. I'm glad we got somewhere today.

This.

234567

[sanjuanworm]

should have learned spanish.......

that core enough for ya?/

[creaky fossil]

Oh well in that case, you're a fucking crybaby and you need to shut the fuck up because you're doing it wrong. Didn't anyone tell you that pissing and moaning isn't allowed West of Casper if you wanna be an ubercorebro, brah? Butch up. It's the internet. Nobody cares. Nobody made you come here and start flapping your e-gums, then get pissy when random people don't respect you instantly, so excuse me for reminding you that you can kiss my cyber-ass if you can't laugh about this shit.


Or- here's a thought- you could lighten up and make some jokes at others' expenses/troll a bit and laugh at this thread becoming the proverbial porchlight to the moths that are hardass can't-wait-to-tell-everyone-how-core-I-am Jackson transplants like the carfax threads of yore could only dream of. I can't believe Rog hasn't come in here to tell us about every trip he's ever taken to CA/SA, how some break there reminds him of the swells from Punta Cana that one time, and how he caught syphilis from some toothless milf he picked up in some park and ride outside Lima once. THEN it would be complete.


But if you're new here and think people actually care how core you are in this thread, then I'm sorry someone misled you. This just isn't one of those threads dude. Those are in Tech Talk. This is a shitshow, and one does not simply... Walk into a shitshow and start making sense from swinging dick. Mmmmkay? Cool. I'm glad we got somewhere today.

This is priceless, because it needs to be read aloud while you look in a mirror.

DO WORK, SON!

NO, NOT LIKE THAT, SON.

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, SON.

DO WORK AND DO IT RIGHT.

[creaky fossil]

This.

234567

You masturbated to orgasm 7 times because of the glee brought to you by DooDork's post that is pregnant with octuplets of irony?

Hi DoWork, it appears you're new here and haven't yet met creaky fossil. Introduce yourself and enjoy your stay!

Other than that, Mister Trash-Bin Nutty Yahoo, how about them Palestinians?

[rideit]