Vacation Thread

Just left Santo Domingo airport. On the Delta flight to Atlanta before Baltimore.

I'm in the air!! Haha :giggle:
 
Janz3n said:
No. Lol. Friends of ours said they just go across the road and pay in pesos. I think he was legit.
Click to expand...
Sounds like the "system" that Argentina has had for 30 years or so. Private companies have a few cars with drivers and they get called up at the main office and the office dispatches the available drivers that are waiting around or just dropped someone off. They work certain locations out of the city. Basically uber without the app.

They are so common that the drivers become regulars and sometimes long time friends. My aunt would call up the local company that was a couple blocks away and ask for the same one or two drivers all the time for many many years.
 
Nomar06 said:
Why come home right when the weekend starts?
Click to expand...
Ask my wife's friend and her husband.... We were invited on this trip for her friend's 40th birthday. Guess they had to get back to their kids and work? Only could take off Sunday-Friday. :shrug:
 
Pay phone has seen better days. All of the colors are cool
 
webby said:
Pay phone has seen better days. All of the colors are cool
Click to expand...
Yeah. The pay phone and the humpback whale mural is my favourite so far.

Went to the butcher today and bought some carne molida ( ground beef ) felt really cool ordering it in Spanish and then using my phone for the amount. Wanted 1/2 pound ( 500g ) and I wrote 500 kg or 1000 lbs. Thankfully the butcher knew I was an idiot and gave me 500gs. But used his bare hands to take the ground beef to get it to weight 500g.

So we're having meat sauce pasta tonight. Haven't got sick yet. Wish us luck .have a snorkel tour tomorrow.
 
Wife has got a cough and fluid in her ear. Just bought amoxicillin over the counter in Mexico for like $10 Cnd down the road. Something is seriously wrong with usa and Canada healthcare. I probably would have paid more with my benefits and universal healthcare.
 
Janz3n said:
amoxicillin over the counter
Click to expand...
With a prescription it’s like $3-4 dollars in the states with insurance. It’s been out so long it’s super cheap, but you need a prescription here. Most things go generic in 20 yrs from the patent, but that can sometimes mean 10yrs or so of actual sales at retail (once it’s passed fda testing trials). Those drugs that you see on tv being advertised are usually the drugs that cost a fortune, and a lot of insurance companies will reject their approval. It’s only when a dr fights for the patient saying we’ve tried this list of generics that didn’t work that it can sometimes get approved. My worst case example was a drug that was ~$5500 for a month supply (cash price).
 
webby said:
With a prescription it’s like $3-4 dollars in the states with insurance. It’s been out so long it’s super cheap, but you need a prescription here. Most things go generic in 20 yrs from the patent, but that can sometimes mean 10yrs or so of actual sales at retail (once it’s passed fda testing trials). Those drugs that you see on tv being advertised are usually the drugs that cost a fortune, and a lot of insurance companies will reject their approval. It’s only when a dr fights for the patient saying we’ve tried this list of generics that didn’t work that it can sometimes get approved. My worst case example was a drug that was ~$5500 for a month supply (cash price).
Click to expand...
Still pretty sad that it's not an option to buy over the counter. But I can see it causing problems as well like over use. Apparently the stuff I got is clavulin which is better at fighting drug resistant bacteria according to my doctor friend.
 
She said the drug knocked her out but I think it was just the sun, drinks and lack of sleep. She's fine during the day. It's night time she coughs.
 
Janz3n said:
Still pretty sad that it's not an option to buy over the counter. But I can see it causing problems as well like over use. Apparently the stuff I got is clavulin which is better at fighting drug resistant bacteria according to my doctor friend.
Click to expand...
You hit it with overuse. Antibiotic resistant bacteria is the big issue.
 
Left our air bnb at 11 am in Mexico. Arrived in Vancouver 9 hours later. 1 hour train and bus ride to the ferry terminal with a 3 hour wait because it's the last ferry for the day at 10:55 but it's actually 1:55. Will arrive home at midnight.
 
So that was about 14 hours of travel. We went to bed about 2 am because of the two hour time zone difference. But then I remembered daylight savings time so I have no idea any more.

So our travels started great. Jesus was our Uber driver. I'm not a religious man but I'd like to think he helped us get 6 seats for our family of 4 on the plane. But then less than half way the flight attended asked if the father with a new born could sit in the isle seat to be next to his wife and 2 bad behaved twin daughters. So that spoiled it all. That combined with children all around us with parents that don't parent and let their kids do what ever the hell they want made for a bad plane ride.

I don't understand why the hell you would take a baby on a vacation. Unless you're visiting family that lives there it makes no sense. Even taking children under 6, why waste your money?????
Rant/
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top