HOLY CRAP! so much crazy shit has happened in the last 3 days since we have arrived to Venezuela! I will start with the plane ride, it was good nothing too special, long long long! when we flew over colombia the clouds looked like whipped cream and the mountains being the perfect cake, as i starred at this in awe i realized this is mother nature the only true thing that is pure.....we get to caracus and johnny´s bag is missing, we meet a guy named julio from los angelos and he is from gutemala. If johnny didn´t loose his bag we would not have met julio which would have been disaster because we don´t speak any spanish and are completely fucking clueless to everything.....so he helped us get money exchanged and told us some key things to watch out for and other great advice. I wish we could see him again it was fun chillin for like 4 hours with him. this keyboard is really strange so im not going to capitalize or anything because it´s a way different keyboard the same thing happened in mexico last year i could not find the underscore to save my freaking life lol.
anyways we get to the island and bam get ripped off right away by some lame ass cab driver who was trying to charge us 80 bsf when the ride was suppose to be 40 bsf so we said stop we will get out right here. so we paid 20 and got out where we were in the middle of nowhere. finally caught another cab after bargaining down to another 20 bsf. we ask him where a good cheap place to stay is and we end up at this ladies house in playa el agua, she says we can stay there for 70 bsf about 20 usd. we take it because we are tired and jet lagged, it was a rip off but we figured we could look elsewhere the next day. so we walk around and try to talk to some people, end up at this bar on the beach making friends with the people who worked there, it is hard though because they know as much english as we do spanish. so we drank some gin and tonics and passed out at our inn.
Beach time was called for and we went swimming! the water is so clear and warm i can lay in it all day and that´s what i do. we have to find a new place to stay today so we head back to our inn and lay in hammocks for awhile while we ponder where the next adventure will take us. we pay the nice lady and head out with our packs....we are walking down the street with the tent strapped to me when a couple comes up to us and starts talking in spanish we don´t understand anything....so they tell us to follow them as ask if we are camping and point to the tent. si si si so we follow them feeling really sketched out because we think we are going to get jacked. so we follow them into a restaurant that is abandoned and again we feel really sketch. there is 2 guys and 2 hookers sitting at the abandoned restaurant. we meet a girl named catalina she is a fucking fox from colombia and the manager of the camping. the camping spot is on top of the roof of the restaurant, and its only $5 usd a night so bam we take it still feeling very very sketch. we are the only people camped up there btu its a great location right on the beach so we feel okay about it. we set up camp and proceed back to the beach bringing ALL of our vauluables with us incase our shit gets ransacked while we are gone.
we sit at the beach and are getting bombarded with people trying to sell us shit but we say sorry no thanks in spanish. this guy comes up to us and he has oysters and im sucker for them so i say how much i bargain him down to practically nothing. we start talking which doesn´t work because we speak no spanish but i get his name its joffrey. he is very nice and starts talking to us and giving me free food and beers, he has a crush on me...but the food and drinks were great. i ask him where he gets the oysters from and he said he catches them himself...so i ask him where. he points to an island across the way, i ask him if he can take us with him next time he goes and he says yes on saturday im sooo excited by this point because i have made a friend and he has offered to take johnny and i to an island and catch oysters. wow how crazy some guy who doesn´t know us and doesn´t speak english has offerent to take us for free on his boat with him. which i am doing today because today is sabado! crazy luck, it doesn´t end there either.
so he starts to introduce me to all of his amigos and i meet anibal this very very cute venezuelan man who is 28 and very nice. he speaks a little english more then anyone else so we hit it off immediately he invites johnny and i bowling for the next night and starts to feed us beer after beer. it was soo fun we met all these cool locals at the beach nobody could understand us vise versa but it didn´t matter we were all having a great time. drinking and dancing and eating. and all for free they refused to let johnny or i pay for anything. it got dark and joffrey left and anibal and his friends all were still there. anibal comes to me and makes me follow him so i do and he brings me to his car and he says you go with me for 5 minutes and we will be right back....or course im still super sketched out about getting kidnapped and shit but i felt a good vibe so i went with it, got in the car and off we went to god knows where...ended up getting more beer and coming back no more then ten minutes. i came back and johnny was chillin with our new homies, kinda shocked i got in the car but he knows how i am so it was all good. the chicas started taking tequila shots and made me partake which was exactly what i wanted anyways. we all went out to the strees and lifted the trunk of a car and started blasting techno spanish it was sooo awesome dancing in the street with local on margarita island the funnest night ever!
we all started dirty dancing after awhile because by this time we were all feeling pretty good, at least i was i had about 8 beers and couple tequila shots i was allllll good. dancing was fun the girls are amazing i love the fact that even though nobody can communicate it doesn´t matter we all have a great time and laugh at eachothers jokes even though we don´t know what the hella anyone is saying. i start making out with anibal of course he is sooo fucking cute, and johnny even thinks so lol. he is so nice and friendly and offers to take us bowling for another one of our new friends championship the next day. I´m feeling pretty tanked at this point and decide its time to go back to our sketchy pad.
we head back its like right across the street and i go to the bathroom when i come out the kitchen is right there and i see two chicas cutting up blocks of cocaine im like wtf it all makes sense now the two guys were drug lords and the girls were hookers and we are staying at a freaking colombian drug lords restaurant that is closed for the season and sleeping on the roof! so freaking crazy! im like wow this is nuts but im wasted so i head to sleep and wake up the next morning hungover with no water. i went searching but nothing was open the good thing about getting up that early was that i got to watch the sunrise it was beautiful!
anyways the next day the restaurant amigos tell us they found us a place to stay and prodceed to take us to the very place we were already at lol and we tried to tell them over and over but they could not understand we were already staying there so we walked them over to our tent and showed them our stuff and then they understood. so i guess the place isn´t sketch at all except for the whole drug lord thing....but yeah we decided we are chill there and we are going to post up for awhile, its so cheap and perfect location. anibal picks us up at around 3 after we had been swimming in the warm waters all day, he says his mother is sick and we cannot go bowling but invites us over to his house. so we go to his house and chill for the day eat some empanadas which are amazing i could eat them all day every day! i cannot believe how friendly people are here its amazing they don´t know us yet they take us to all the great spots and just want to show us everything and wont let us pay for a thing its nuts im going to have to slip some cash in his car later or something.
i have much more to write but i have to go our boat ride to the island is waiting...until next time
adios!
anyways we get to the island and bam get ripped off right away by some lame ass cab driver who was trying to charge us 80 bsf when the ride was suppose to be 40 bsf so we said stop we will get out right here. so we paid 20 and got out where we were in the middle of nowhere. finally caught another cab after bargaining down to another 20 bsf. we ask him where a good cheap place to stay is and we end up at this ladies house in playa el agua, she says we can stay there for 70 bsf about 20 usd. we take it because we are tired and jet lagged, it was a rip off but we figured we could look elsewhere the next day. so we walk around and try to talk to some people, end up at this bar on the beach making friends with the people who worked there, it is hard though because they know as much english as we do spanish. so we drank some gin and tonics and passed out at our inn.
Beach time was called for and we went swimming! the water is so clear and warm i can lay in it all day and that´s what i do. we have to find a new place to stay today so we head back to our inn and lay in hammocks for awhile while we ponder where the next adventure will take us. we pay the nice lady and head out with our packs....we are walking down the street with the tent strapped to me when a couple comes up to us and starts talking in spanish we don´t understand anything....so they tell us to follow them as ask if we are camping and point to the tent. si si si so we follow them feeling really sketched out because we think we are going to get jacked. so we follow them into a restaurant that is abandoned and again we feel really sketch. there is 2 guys and 2 hookers sitting at the abandoned restaurant. we meet a girl named catalina she is a fucking fox from colombia and the manager of the camping. the camping spot is on top of the roof of the restaurant, and its only $5 usd a night so bam we take it still feeling very very sketch. we are the only people camped up there btu its a great location right on the beach so we feel okay about it. we set up camp and proceed back to the beach bringing ALL of our vauluables with us incase our shit gets ransacked while we are gone.
we sit at the beach and are getting bombarded with people trying to sell us shit but we say sorry no thanks in spanish. this guy comes up to us and he has oysters and im sucker for them so i say how much i bargain him down to practically nothing. we start talking which doesn´t work because we speak no spanish but i get his name its joffrey. he is very nice and starts talking to us and giving me free food and beers, he has a crush on me...but the food and drinks were great. i ask him where he gets the oysters from and he said he catches them himself...so i ask him where. he points to an island across the way, i ask him if he can take us with him next time he goes and he says yes on saturday im sooo excited by this point because i have made a friend and he has offered to take johnny and i to an island and catch oysters. wow how crazy some guy who doesn´t know us and doesn´t speak english has offerent to take us for free on his boat with him. which i am doing today because today is sabado! crazy luck, it doesn´t end there either.
so he starts to introduce me to all of his amigos and i meet anibal this very very cute venezuelan man who is 28 and very nice. he speaks a little english more then anyone else so we hit it off immediately he invites johnny and i bowling for the next night and starts to feed us beer after beer. it was soo fun we met all these cool locals at the beach nobody could understand us vise versa but it didn´t matter we were all having a great time. drinking and dancing and eating. and all for free they refused to let johnny or i pay for anything. it got dark and joffrey left and anibal and his friends all were still there. anibal comes to me and makes me follow him so i do and he brings me to his car and he says you go with me for 5 minutes and we will be right back....or course im still super sketched out about getting kidnapped and shit but i felt a good vibe so i went with it, got in the car and off we went to god knows where...ended up getting more beer and coming back no more then ten minutes. i came back and johnny was chillin with our new homies, kinda shocked i got in the car but he knows how i am so it was all good. the chicas started taking tequila shots and made me partake which was exactly what i wanted anyways. we all went out to the strees and lifted the trunk of a car and started blasting techno spanish it was sooo awesome dancing in the street with local on margarita island the funnest night ever!
we all started dirty dancing after awhile because by this time we were all feeling pretty good, at least i was i had about 8 beers and couple tequila shots i was allllll good. dancing was fun the girls are amazing i love the fact that even though nobody can communicate it doesn´t matter we all have a great time and laugh at eachothers jokes even though we don´t know what the hella anyone is saying. i start making out with anibal of course he is sooo fucking cute, and johnny even thinks so lol. he is so nice and friendly and offers to take us bowling for another one of our new friends championship the next day. I´m feeling pretty tanked at this point and decide its time to go back to our sketchy pad.
we head back its like right across the street and i go to the bathroom when i come out the kitchen is right there and i see two chicas cutting up blocks of cocaine im like wtf it all makes sense now the two guys were drug lords and the girls were hookers and we are staying at a freaking colombian drug lords restaurant that is closed for the season and sleeping on the roof! so freaking crazy! im like wow this is nuts but im wasted so i head to sleep and wake up the next morning hungover with no water. i went searching but nothing was open the good thing about getting up that early was that i got to watch the sunrise it was beautiful!
anyways the next day the restaurant amigos tell us they found us a place to stay and prodceed to take us to the very place we were already at lol and we tried to tell them over and over but they could not understand we were already staying there so we walked them over to our tent and showed them our stuff and then they understood. so i guess the place isn´t sketch at all except for the whole drug lord thing....but yeah we decided we are chill there and we are going to post up for awhile, its so cheap and perfect location. anibal picks us up at around 3 after we had been swimming in the warm waters all day, he says his mother is sick and we cannot go bowling but invites us over to his house. so we go to his house and chill for the day eat some empanadas which are amazing i could eat them all day every day! i cannot believe how friendly people are here its amazing they don´t know us yet they take us to all the great spots and just want to show us everything and wont let us pay for a thing its nuts im going to have to slip some cash in his car later or something.
i have much more to write but i have to go our boat ride to the island is waiting...until next time
adios!