Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Sunday, January 14: Off to Costa Rica

Well, after getting about an hour sleep and getting up at 3:45 AM we 

quickly had breakfast with cereal and some coffee and some super coffee. Least I had a super coffee. Next step was to call Uber to drive us to 30th St. That went

 smoothly. Got the 30th St. and the train showed up at time at 5 AM. Then we landed at Philly airport and had 2 1/2 hours to kill and we killed it all right. I 

left my charger in Philly so we talked this really cool tech lady at this tech place
 they sell sunglasses that are a camera, but I bought this thing that 

accepts USB and USUSB-C cord so she was really knowledgeable. It could charge more than one thing at a time. I managed to find a portable charger that worked

while I was Plus I managed to find a portable charger that worked home. I got to see the concert on the live stream was pretty cool. We flew into
Charlotte and it’s a pretty cool airport with a lot of sunshine. We 


went to potbelly sandwiches and really enjoyed that sandwich. We thought the 

Plane was going to be 20 minutes late. It ended up they 

were on time but we were almost late for the flight..  Hey there, we just lifted off from Charlotte to go to 

Costa Rica. It’s about 5 1/2 hour flight. Mary and I almost missed the 

flight from Charlotte. We were the last two to board after a family of 4. They are very efficient. They just looked at our passport waived it we went in really 

looking forward to this it’s gonna be 90° the whole time and we’re on the Pacific 

Oceanside at Playa Negra. Yes, and we arrived at Costa Rica and there’s a huge ass line to get through through customs

 and it will first immigration then customs. Made the show a passport proof

 of where you’re staying and proof of when you’re leaving and wasn’t 

clearly written to us about that, but I was able to whip out both of the things

 on my phone. What lady was hesitant to me and I just gave him my whole 

pile of emails that were sent over the last two months. She finally just got tired of me and waved me on. After that, we waited 

for about 40 minutes for our caravan shuttle bus caravan, whatever the 

hell it’s called and all of us from the flight got together we all managed to find each other with no problem and the line
 was long but it was very efficient we got to the place and had a quick orientation

 Oh yeah we checked into our cabana and they wanted our credit cards and I and we were thinking we paid for these rooms but they want to keep the credit cards so if we get shit 
you know they’ll have it and then we’ll just use the cash at the end to pay off the money so they told us about that our cabana was fine. It was one of the air condition ones with no bathroom. I thought I was gonna suck because it was gonna be hot as balls but it wasn’t very comfortable, and I was very  
 relieved and I think that’s what we did the first day we signed up for the sweat lodge and the ceremony. Tomorrow morning we have foundation yoga at seven the yoga class at eight and that’s that’s the story and we crashed around 8:45 PM because it was long ass day of traveling and my brain feels like you know I am floating at space but it was good and it was really cool to be nice. Tropical weather, as Philadelphia is set to get its first measurable snowfall, possibly tomorrow and tomorrow is Monday. This is my first overseas trip since the 90s I believe excluding Canada yes I’ve been to Canada bunch of times. Anyhow, that’s it.

Friday, August 16, 2019

Friday, August 16: Leaving Dunn NC, Hope Mills, Florence SC and I-95

Well we got up early around 9:00 AM to go eat breakfast. The breakfast expires at 9:30 AM. I had 

 ome delicious tasty waffles but you can make on your own waffle maker. Meanwhile they’re playing Fox News and they  have this cheesy 
 Christian band singing in the Fox Studios. Leitsinger was black and red had a big pictures of Tucker Carlson and other fox Jose this auditorium. It was cheesy and then went 

 ack to sleep and it felt great!! We’re going to Hope Mills North Carolina 

 isit Larry’s aunt. Right now were in the outskirts of Fayetteville near the airport

 going shopping for Larry’s queen mattress and getting 

 heets are we getting a bedframe. This is pretty goddamn exciting let me tell you! I am in Hope Mills

 North Carolina. I had a slight issue. I lost my check

 card. I realized it was left @ the coffee shop that I last went to. So I 



 called TD Bank & cancel the card and there's a TD Bank (US) Florence

 South Carolina which is an hour and a half away in the bank close at six I thought I lost my meds I found them so I'm holding on but the tide is high ha ha Ha. We went to
 Larry’s Aunt’s place in Hope Mills. She has a beautiful place that her deceased husband built himself. The back yard was beautiful and green w/ a golf course behind the place. She treated us to salad 

 nd yummy lasagna. Larry reminisced and I updated this blog.  It is now 3:32 PM we’re gonna be leaving in about 10 minutes

 we have eight more hours east of driving. First gonna stop in Florence at TD Bank if we can get there by 6 PM. 
Well we ran into a couple sun showers on the way. As you might know, Donald Trump wants to purchase Greenland. Well from but this article states people live in Greenland or not hip to that idea. Trump continues to be an embarrassment to our

 country.😪🤮🤨. It’s now 5:32 PM wiping at this bank in Florence for about 5 minutes now. I have to see the people to sit behind a desk. I got one dude in front of me and both ladies

 are occupied. There’s a dude who’s at the teller counter he’s been yes

 ccupying this one woman’s time not having enough ID and being very

 persistent. They are  more patient here. It’s now 5:53 PM &  both ladies 

 re still occupied but that dude with no ID finally left. I think one that One 

 f the dude in front of me also lost his TD Bank card just like I did. So it’ll be at least 6:15 PM before we really 

 o out on the road apparently. Hopefully Larry took care some of his business. 

 ’ll be driving the rest of the way. We drove all the way down 95 within 33 miles of Savannah Georgia

. We then stopped at a McDonald’s. I had McNuggets fries and a large Pepsi to hold me 

 ver till we go to our latest destinations which is an hour away from Larry’s. It’s called Vero beach. 

 e’s going to reserve a hotel and that’s gonna get there at 2 AM. Well 

 arry decided he would drive and we made it past the Georgia state 

 ine to Estonia Georgia where we got a little bit of gas. Not too much because it’s 279 a gallon i’m gonna be driving we have about four hours and 18 minutes left on our trip from Estonia Georgia. We have now three hours and 26 minutes because we stopped where is there is cheap gas at loves. So I took an extra bathroom break and I have to charge down the highway for 3 1/2 more hours. It’s now 11:30 PM reply to get there at 2:30 AM there is if euro beach Florida