Comments on: From Mexico City to Punta Gorda http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/ Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mark http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2279 Mark Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:59 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2279 the Miami Vice bit made me lol, dude !!11!!<br /><br />I've had bad experiences at NY customs too - if I can I always fly into Newark, it's like a different planet, people welcome you into their country and ask you what you'll be doing in a make-sure-you-check-out-all-the-neat-stuff way rather than an I-have-the-power-to-deport-you way the Miami Vice bit made me lol, dude !!11!!

I’ve had bad experiences at NY customs too – if I can I always fly into Newark, it’s like a different planet, people welcome you into their country and ask you what you’ll be doing in a make-sure-you-check-out-all-the-neat-stuff way rather than an I-have-the-power-to-deport-you way

]]> By: longbird http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 longbird Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:21:27 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2280 Wow, sounds like a dreamy place. Glad you got there <i>before</i> the planned community is up and running (ruining).<br /><br />On immigration: I stayed in Toronto a few years ago and once took a trip to New York. On the way in, we stood for 45 minutes in an unmarked corridor surrounded by motionless drones in facemasks (this was during the SARS thing) before they'd even tell us which way to passport-control, then we were gruntingly grilled by some kind of ex-Marine with a very obvious gun, who confiscated my apple and gave me hell for not knowing where I was going to stay yet. In contrast, on the way back into Canada, the queue moved swiftly towards a nicely rounded chap with a crooked name-badge, whose face, on seeing my British passport, lit up. "Aw, you from England eh? What's hapnin on Coronation Street? My wife loves that show!" Wow, sounds like a dreamy place. Glad you got there before the planned community is up and running (ruining).

On immigration: I stayed in Toronto a few years ago and once took a trip to New York. On the way in, we stood for 45 minutes in an unmarked corridor surrounded by motionless drones in facemasks (this was during the SARS thing) before they’d even tell us which way to passport-control, then we were gruntingly grilled by some kind of ex-Marine with a very obvious gun, who confiscated my apple and gave me hell for not knowing where I was going to stay yet. In contrast, on the way back into Canada, the queue moved swiftly towards a nicely rounded chap with a crooked name-badge, whose face, on seeing my British passport, lit up. “Aw, you from England eh? What’s hapnin on Coronation Street? My wife loves that show!”

]]> By: lisa http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2281 lisa Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:24:07 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2281 My favorite part is 'A macaw flew past me', dude sounds like you are in freaken paradise! <br />Soak up the sun for all of us in the big freeze and burn that 'planned community' down befor you leave! My favorite part is ‘A macaw flew past me’, dude sounds like you are in freaken paradise!
Soak up the sun for all of us in the big freeze and burn that ‘planned community’ down befor you leave!

]]> By: Anonymous http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2282 Anonymous Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:01:07 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2282 Sounds like a great shift from Mexico City - dying to know how it turns out with the child bride.<br /><br />Rock on, Robinson!!!<br /><br />Derick Sounds like a great shift from Mexico City – dying to know how it turns out with the child bride.

Rock on, Robinson!!!

Derick

]]> By: pauldwaite http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2283 pauldwaite Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:30:10 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2283 > highlight: t-shirts with Un-Belize-able written on them<br /><br />Gold.<br /><br />> the vagina-owning half of the couple that runs Hickatee Cottages where I'm staying<br /><br />Platinum. Ignore the haters, Craig: if they can’t take a bit of colour, they’re just pussies. > highlight: t-shirts with Un-Belize-able written on them

Gold.

> the vagina-owning half of the couple that runs Hickatee Cottages where I’m staying

Platinum. Ignore the haters, Craig: if they can’t take a bit of colour, they’re just pussies.

]]> By: vaos http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2284 vaos Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:26:39 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2284 I second impa on the vagina thing, but what a great story Craig!<br />Really, really enjoyed reading that... I second impa on the vagina thing, but what a great story Craig!
Really, really enjoyed reading that…

]]> By: Impa http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/comment-page-1/#comment-2285 Impa Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:13:00 +0000 http://flipflopflyin.com/g/2008/01/from-mexico-city-to-punta-gorda/#comment-2285 "...going outside and smoking in Miami, and listening to the Miami Vice theme on the iPod." I thought that was excellent, I get all sorts of flashes of flamingo's and black and white houses out of glass and concrete and white linen blazers, but what the hell kind of choice of words is this: "And the vagina-owning half of the couple..."??? <br />Enjoy the warmth. Europe looks gloomy. “…going outside and smoking in Miami, and listening to the Miami Vice theme on the iPod.” I thought that was excellent, I get all sorts of flashes of flamingo’s and black and white houses out of glass and concrete and white linen blazers, but what the hell kind of choice of words is this: “And the vagina-owning half of the couple…”???
Enjoy the warmth. Europe looks gloomy.

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