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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Pat c. I know who you are...
Interesting quote from the truck article
Meg: We have been traveling for a little over five months at this point and we just made it to South America. We would like to travel for at least eight or nine more months. It all depends on how long we can make our money last. We have thought about stopping to work somewhere.
TCM: That’s the second time you mentioned money shaping the trip. Relatively speaking, you are young. How are you paying for this trip?
Meg: We saved money for about two years for this trip. We are just average people with average jobs. Jed is a carpenter and I am in marketing. We don’t have trust funds.
We live fairly cheap in the first place, so saving came pretty easily with steady jobs. We went out to eat less and didn’t take any other big vacations during this time. We had cheap rent. We learned that if you cut out the little unnecessary spending like cable and eating out, it is really easy to save.
Once you start seeing money in the bank it gets addictive. You just want to put more in. While saving, I never felt like we went without. Our biggest sacrifice was moving back in with roommates to cut living costs.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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^^^
Well said.
Had to be something that fired up a whole town of folks...
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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5 gallon gas can and 5 gallons of gas = $120
Is it really that expensive????
Anyhoo... I don't travel in third world countries without a native guide. They know what to avoid, who to avoid, and who to pay off. I traveled in Morocco. It's dangerous x10 because I was not only an infidel, but also a woman. Because of my guide, I didn't have problems. I swear without him all hell would have broken loose.
AFS
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Very cool camper. I want one.
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canyoncat
Social climber
SoCal
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All I have to say is that I'm feeling like a real luddite with my 2012 $450 laptop from Best Buy.
Admittedly it does everything I need a laptop to do, word processing, excel, net surfing, email, etc., but it must be missing some major kick ass features for the other $4,500.00, no?
Hell, I didn't even know anyone made a $5K laptop besides the nuclear hardened Mil-Spec Seal team specials???
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Sometimes you got to suck it up, go home and call it a day. I was in a bad car accident. No one paid my ticket home, my medical bills, etc. It sucked but that's part of life. I still have a shoulder that doesn't work right and a few traumatic memories of the person that died and hard memories of a person that was badly injured but hey... I'm alive and that really is good enough. I chose to get in that car, I chose that risk and the life afterwards is all mine. No one needs to pay for it, for the damages of my stuff. (I cracked the motherboard to my computer, my prescription glasses, a camera, etc.) Life happens.
AFS
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Crossing the dusty border from Kenya into Tanzania over a decade ago in a DHL package/shuttle van we were stopped and borded by three "soldiers" with ratty looking clothes and even more ratty looking AK's. One didn't even have a magazine in it.
They were smiling though and were checking "papers" and wanted money for processing. The amount was not discussed. I gave them the equiv. of $20.00 US, a good sum of money.
One much older woman(a white kenyan I believe) sitting towards the front refused to pay them anything and started to bitch and moan loudly. The soldier at the front of the van closed the door and racked the bolt on his AK. Their fingers were ALWAYS on the triggers. He was not smiling anymore.
Looking around the van there was nothing but more dishelved armed guys in various old army fatigues. We could have all disappeared in an instant.
A German couple sitting right behind the bitching woman jumped up to pay for her. She then refused and paid herself.
The three men smiled again and left.
There are stupid, desperate, and violent people everywhere on Earth, in every country.
Who knows what really happened. We probably never will. The Peru story reeks of bullshite but some parts might be true.
I just can't figure out who would fall for it and actually give $$$... That's amazing. Aside from help with plane tickets back home/passports/etc... who would ever actually ask strangers to replace their crap?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So, you 'climbers' have made 40 posts to this stoopid thread in the time
there have been 2 responses to the FA of El Pilar del Sol Naciente
thread.
I will refrain from making a derogatory comment as it would be superfluous.
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Maybe it's just me but hey... When I travel, I travel with things I can lose, things that if they gets stolen I'll be alright, etc. I never travel with stuff that would hurt me in the long run if it disappears.
Even when I went to Greece to see relatives... I did not bring my computer, or iPhone. I did not bring my wedding ring. I did bring an expensive camera but with the knowledge that if it goes, life will continue. That it was worth the risk to catch the memories. Now that we bought an iPad. I'll travel with it since replacing it is reasonable compared to the MacBook. Plus I have a ipad shuffle for the same reason. Tunes at low cost. If stolen, no worries. Plus being smaller, easier to hide, keep safe.
AFS
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sorry, Bruce, my bad. In this case it would be FOOKING AWESOME FIRST ASCENT!!! (They didn't use the coefficient of awesomeness)
edit - gud point DMT. It would seem be out of character to acknowledge incredible climbing here.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Why would someone respond to a thread that is merely a link to an off-site TR?
I too dislike TRs that are simply links to somewhere else. It's not that their trip, or ascent wasn't amazing, it's that they're not interested in participating personally here. I'd rather post to Jefe's boulder/dog thread, or some n00b's first 5.7 multi-pitch.
I will take a look at their gig though. For YOU Reilly, not for them....
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Alexey
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
Jan 7, 2013 - 10:03am PT
Pat c. I know who you are...
The more and more OP posting here he looks like he belong to Truck Camper's forum.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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"Very cool camper. I want one."
I don't know how you think you can get it to fit onto your bike.....
Speaking of, anyone here seen or used the Cricket campers?
oh, Crowdit seems stalled.
Current Amount:
$4,780.90
Are all youse guys just sending the money to the other, unaccountable money place on Facebook?
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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The other Hella light is wired to a switch in the camper. It is super useful to see what that bump in the night is. We feel far safer leaving the camper for midnight pee sessions with this super bright Hella light
Hmmm, knott exactly low profile...
With $5000 being spent on a laptop (as opposed to say, implants and crowns for allegedly missing teeth),
may I suggest something like this as an upgraded Adventure Americas vehicle, complete with escort?
With the ability to raise cash at the rate of over $20,000 in a mere few days, cost should be no problem,
knott to mention the luxury of continuing the adventure for several more months as originally planned...
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Then onto Argentina with the green beret buddies in the Hummer for another ass whoopin and fund raisin' Whoop! Whoop! Round 2, ding.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Hey Locker - I can come over and beat your ass to make it legit. Haha! :)
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Why would someone respond to a thread that is merely a link to an off-site TR?
The OP was merely a link to an off-site ...trip report!
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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This thread is bringing out the worst in people.
If you don't give a sh#t and want to donate, don't.
They could have made some mistakes, but no one posting here knows enough to say that. Whatever the did, they had enough real stones thrown at them and suffered enough injury without needing the stones and arrows of Supertopo.
This horse has been well beaten.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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"Hey Locker - I can come over and beat your ass to make it legit. Haha! :) "
Careful, Locker would probably pay you for that service. In fact, you might consider taking up a collection first to see what the numbers shake out to. ha ha!
ie. "Once my kickintheassstarter™ hits $10,000 the gig gets funded and Locker gets his ass kicked"....LOL.
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