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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:40 pm |
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| Dave Caywood |
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Top Ten ways to screw up an Amazon fishing Trip
10. Forgo bringing your CPAP machine. (It will not kill you but the others will.)
9. Apply for a Brazilian tourist visa more than 90 days in advance.
8. Check your bags from your home town directly through to Manaus because you do not want to be burdened with them in Miami.
7. Jump out of the boat with out first checking for stingrays
6. Yellow Fever, no problem, I am from the “Walk it off School of Medicine.”
5. Not paying any attention to the outfitters suggested lure list.
4. Missing the TAM flight out of Miami.
3. Not joining the Peacock Bass Association because they endorsed Hillary Clinton. (PBA Moderator's Note: Not Funny!)
2. Begin any task by saying, “This is the way we do it back home.”
OK here it is the number one way to screw up an Amazon Fishing Trip. The one you will loose sleep over. It is bound to happen to all of us………………………………………..
1. When the TAM agent at check in in Miami ask for your passport and then hands it back to and says, “Sir that is your wife’s passport, I need yours”………………………. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:14 pm |
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| Rick Klotz |
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| Location: Wellington, FL |
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David:
OK, I give up....what's a CPAP machine. And was that the voice of experience with the wife's passport....?
I'd add one more way to screw up an Amazon trip, maybe not for the individual but for everyone around them: Be the ugly American (rude, loud, drunk and stupid). It your vacation. Go ahead piss everybody off so they avoid you like the plague or plot ways to lose you in the rainforest. 
We experienced this on our last trip. At least we didn't have to spend the day fishing with him..... |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:37 pm |
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| Dave Caywood |
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A CPAP machine prevents one from snoring. I have one and run it off a car battery in the jungle if they don’t have 120AC. Quite common now and about the size of a small cigar box.
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No the passport screw up was not on my watch. I was standing in the TAM line in MIA and this guy turns around and was white as a sheep. He had used his drivers license to get from Atlanta to MIA. There was nothing he could do. His chance of a life time trip and he’s looking at his wife's passport. It was like everyone went into morning for him followed by everyone quickly pulling out their passports to make sure they had not made the same mistake. |
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