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Wordly Andre
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Hello America I'm Back!!
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i went to south america (ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so i will write a bit about what happend.
first, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now quito, ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but i did fine.
after a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a captain in the ecuadorian air force, i was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the amazon, along the way stopping at some more volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads.
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Hello America I'm Back!!
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i went to south america (ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so i will write a bit about what happend.
first, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now quito, ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but i did fine.
after a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a captain in the ecuadorian air force, i was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the amazon, along the way stopping at some more volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads.
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junkie, Actually the Galapagos was pretty calm compared to the rest of my vacation, the tour group I went through was Islas de Fuego, its all inclusive, and they really watch out for you, Galapagos is a wonderful place, just a bit hot and humid, but I totally think its do-able for anyone, heck there were old grannys snorkling I thought that was funny as I was too chicken.
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Hello America I'm Back!!
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i went to south america (ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so i will write a bit about what happend.
first, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now quito, ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but i did fine.
after a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a captain in the ecuadorian air force, i was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the amazon, along the way stopping at some more volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads.
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HA HA HA Open Mind, Damn I have to change my life insurance, well it wouldn't have matter to me anyway as I am dead and wouldn't care.
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Hello America I'm Back!!
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i went to south america (ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so i will write a bit about what happend.
first, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now quito, ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but i did fine.
after a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a captain in the ecuadorian air force, i was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the amazon, along the way stopping at some more volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads.
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Wordly Andre
The cocaine leaf tea made my stomach feel better, I felt relaxed and body aches went away. That picture on the bottom left is a Galapagos Turtle
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Hello America I'm Back!!
by Wordly Andre inas many of you know i went to south america (ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so i will write a bit about what happend.
first, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now quito, ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but i did fine.
after a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a captain in the ecuadorian air force, i was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the amazon, along the way stopping at some more volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads.
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Wordly Andre
As many of you know I went to South America (Ecuador) for my vacation, and to meet some of my wife's family and friends, so I will write a bit about what happend.
First, this was not a typical relaxing vacation with laying out on the beach and drinking cocktails, our first day we took a 3 hour car ride outside the capitol to a area that we hike to see huge waterfall, along the way we toured some volcanos, now Quito, Ecuador is in some parts as high up as 9,600 ft high, and in that high elevation, a sea level guy like me had some problems, stomach aches, headaches, body aches, and shortness of breath, but I did fine.
After a few days of visiting volcanos, and other historical points of interest, my wife's best friend's husband has a cousin who is a Captain in the Ecuadorian Air Force, I was told that we were going to visit him because he is stationed in a town at the gateway to the Amazon, so we took a nearly 5 hour car ride into the Amazon, along the way stopping at some more Volcanos, and little shops to buy shrunken heads. Upon meeting up with the Captain he informs us that we will be his guests and stay the night at the base, I was also told DO NOT speak english and try to look Ecuadorian, I was pretty nervous as everyone on the base walks around with a sub machine gun.
Next morning we got up early, went to the military airport and boarded a cargo supply plane that was taking food and supplies deep in to the Amazon to another military base near the border with Peru, the flight was amazing, as we are sitting between huge bags of onions, potatoes and frozen chickens, looking out into the vast green of the amazon that is only broken by the dirty muddy amazon river, we landing in a very remote base that I am told is only accessible by plane, walking out of the plane you are hit by the humid hot air of the amazon, in a hurry I searched my backpack for my bug repellant I covered my entire body, wife and I walked around a bit we saw the "Jungle fighters" as they were in a formation going into a hut for a meeting, we walked down to rivers edge to takes some pictures, then her friend yelled at us to stay on the main part of the base and do not go far. After getting back on the plane then back to the other base then back to our car I had one thought in my head, What the hell am I doing!!
The next day at 8 am we were back in Quito and at the airport off to Galapagos Islands, we had a wonderful tour package that is not really offered to Americans, $1200 for wife and I for 4 days in Galapagos, that includes, air, hotel, 3 meals per day, drinks, tours, and a yacht. In our tour we had 2 Italians who live in Quito, 1 Spanish guy who was married to an Ecuadorian and the rest were from Ecuador, which made the tour cool in a way and difficult in another. It was cool because I was not stuck in a tour group with a bunch of Americans like I saw in other tours, so I got a real down home experiance, and not cool in the way that everything was in Spanish but my wife was my translator.
There are so many amazing animals in Galapagos, and the turtles are nothing short of breathtaking, the water is warm and so blue that it looks fake, you can see the fish swimming around you, and the food is well if you love seafood like I do then you are in heaven.When we got back to Quito I did get sick however and was in bed for a day, could have been something I ate or the water, when I got better we went up some cable tram all the way up some mountain that was over 12,000 ft high, up there is a tiny city, the city above the clouds, they have signs posted that they have oxygen stations if you need it, however the local Indians have a medicine to help cope with the altitude, cocaine leafs, they make a tea and a candy with it, I had both ... it actually worked!
After a few more days of tours and visiting family I find myself back to the airport saying good bye and looking forward to coming home to rest.
I will post a few pictures
sorry for my long story
P.S. A few days before we leave we are having breakfast at wife's friends home, and I see on her table near the entry way some familar book and magazine, I was like oh shit these people are following me, wife's friend is looking at me weird and asks wife whats wrong she explains about the JW's and friends wife says (translated) "Oh yeah the maid answered the door and took those from the cult people" I was laughing so much, the title of the awake was Amageddon! ... I asked wife is she wanted some reading material for the plane ride home, she said not but I think we are out of toilet paper.
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Calling all JWD Geniuses!!!
by momzcrazy infor every word you correctly define on this game, they will donate 20 grains of rice to the un world food program.
the ads pay for the rice.. http://freerice.com/index.php.
fight world hunger and play!.
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Wordly Andre
Oh wait I thought you said Guinness
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AND you think you pay to much for GAS...
by zeroday ini drive truck for a living and this is just one fuel ticket my company paid last week and i fuel this much 3 times a week.... .
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Wordly Andre
Diesel in CA, Los Angeles Area, $4.15
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Anti-Witness Dinner
by Wordly Andre inwednesday night wife and i had dinner out at a local restaurant, this place is kind of a family place not too loud, i started telling her about that murrieta, ca molestation case, during our conversation i realized that the people in the booth behind me were jw's, because i heard the lady tell her husband "i think he is a brother", after i heard that i really starting going into details and how it's not right that elders would put the safety and wellfare of a child in risk only to cover up so as not to bring reproach on jehovahs name.
i started telling her my opinion on the whole confidence issue, and how jw's announce sinners and punishment to the congergation that, that voids expectation of silence.
another issue i brought up was the fact that my cousin is df'd and shunned because she is gay, and how this guy who molested children is not shunned.
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Wordly Andre
The dub couple, I could not see their faces as they were sitting in the booth behind me, when they walked by they didn't look over at me, they just left, I hope I planted a seed.
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Anti-Witness Dinner
by Wordly Andre inwednesday night wife and i had dinner out at a local restaurant, this place is kind of a family place not too loud, i started telling her about that murrieta, ca molestation case, during our conversation i realized that the people in the booth behind me were jw's, because i heard the lady tell her husband "i think he is a brother", after i heard that i really starting going into details and how it's not right that elders would put the safety and wellfare of a child in risk only to cover up so as not to bring reproach on jehovahs name.
i started telling her my opinion on the whole confidence issue, and how jw's announce sinners and punishment to the congergation that, that voids expectation of silence.
another issue i brought up was the fact that my cousin is df'd and shunned because she is gay, and how this guy who molested children is not shunned.
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Wordly Andre
My wife kept asking leading questions, like "aren't the elder suppose to protect the flock?", Why are Child molestors protected and others kicked out?" "do other members of the Org, know whats going on, are they talking about it?"
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Anti-Witness Dinner
by Wordly Andre inwednesday night wife and i had dinner out at a local restaurant, this place is kind of a family place not too loud, i started telling her about that murrieta, ca molestation case, during our conversation i realized that the people in the booth behind me were jw's, because i heard the lady tell her husband "i think he is a brother", after i heard that i really starting going into details and how it's not right that elders would put the safety and wellfare of a child in risk only to cover up so as not to bring reproach on jehovahs name.
i started telling her my opinion on the whole confidence issue, and how jw's announce sinners and punishment to the congergation that, that voids expectation of silence.
another issue i brought up was the fact that my cousin is df'd and shunned because she is gay, and how this guy who molested children is not shunned.
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Wordly Andre
Wednesday night Wife and I had dinner out at a local restaurant, this place is kind of a family place not too loud, I started telling her about that Murrieta, CA Molestation case, during our conversation I realized that the people in the booth behind me were JW's, because I heard the lady tell her husband "I think he is a brother", after I heard that I really starting going into details and how it's not right that elders would put the safety and wellfare of a child in risk only to cover up so as not to bring reproach on Jehovahs name. I started telling her my opinion on the whole confidence issue, and how JW's announce sinners and punishment to the congergation that, that voids expectation of silence. Another issue I brought up was the fact that my cousin is DF'd and shunned because she is gay, and how this guy who molested children is not shunned. There is a difference when you have 2 grown adults who have a choice to be in a relationship, VS some grown man molesting children! I started talking loudly and had the attention of 3 tables near us, JW couple behind me were quiet and listening to what I said. I started talking about moral responsibility of any religous organization to protect members from harm, especially children, and how on the JW website it states that they will contact police when reports of molestations are told to them, however these elders didn't and it was the principal of the school who contacted the police, I said the organizations lies and is continuing to cover up and protect abusers. For what? not to bring reproach on Jehovah's name? The part of the restaurant we were in was dead silent, JW couple got up and left.