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Title: TOM007´s Mexican Hell on the Pacific
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Published: Mar 13, 2009
Author: guess
Post Date: 2009-03-13 13:29:12 by tom007
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Things are literally going swimmingly here in Melaque in the heart of Costallagre Mexico. Sue and I have decided this place is a keeper. Our pleasant hotel room is 250 pesos a night ($17 USD) and has a great terrace with umbarellas and tables and a stove and sink if you want to cook some shrimp. Weekly the price goes to $14 USD a night, if you get it for a month I guess its free ). These pixs are from google, I did not bring the cable to connect my camera to a computer. 
My tan is coming right along, the food is fabulous, shrimp platter is about $5.5 and the beer company, Sol, is having a promotional especial for $0.66 a bottle in the restaurants!!! Or for a brew on our terrace, $0.44 for a 16 oz can of Sol. Our room is great with two comfortable beds, frige and a flush toilet so it is far more advanced then the Ozarks! 
The city square: 
HERE IS OUR HOTEL: 
Have another few days here than off to Puerto Vallerta for a flight back to the US on Tuesday - ending our three week vacation. Next time we are driving, and staying a month. 
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Looks delightful from the frozen confines of PA!
Ozarks??? Where is that?
thanks for the update. it's fun to see the pics too.
The biggest mistake you'll ever make is going back. ;-)
Wish I could zip all 4um here. Spent the last few hours battleing the five foot breakers on the beach, so I am feeling delightfully exhausted and the sun and Sol are really a nice combination.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Where is that? I did get some pictures of Turtle´s Mexican gurl friends - Ill show them to you when I get home.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Hot damn... I bet some real winners.
He is a fashionable dresser, I´ll give him that.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" It's beautiful! Just don't git shark et! (I've gotta bad feeling about the ocean ever since The ewe gno watt Movie, and in 1976 a helicopter ride over Panama City Beach showed all the ubiquitous sharks in the water all around the waders as clear as can be from an altitude of about 200 feet. You can't see em at ground level when you're splashin' and grab assin and generally ringing the dinner bell (fortunately sandbar sharks don't usually worry swimmers and waders) but you can shore see em from the air! (Statistically, "you would have to swim in the ocean 112 times a day for it to become as dangerous as making a single car journey to the supermarket." Even so, when they bite it touches so many lives that, well, it would just ruin me to learn of any misfortune befalling you and yours. So, please humor me and don't go any deeper than your ankles for the remainder of your vacation, okay? Thanks) Also, you must allow for the possibility that some bipedal ne'er-do-wells may be eyeballin' you and The Missus and waiting for the opportunity to introduce you to their cuchillos and learned anti social behavior patterns. It may not happen much but when it does the savagery of the 3rd world is too ghastly for words. Avoid that long walk through the woods where entrance and egress is possible from a blind side other than the highway. Just think about me and humor my paranoia and concern for youze guyz, okay? As the world economy heads South it may manifest in heretofore unseen desperation in a few people. And, you just can't tell by looking at them who the desperadoes are.
For the benefit of those not familiar with the dynamics of modern bow hunting, that's a compound bow. The pulleys or cams allow a 60 lb bow to be held at full draw with as little as 15 lbs of draw weight. But, you still have to draw the full weight to the let off point where the cam(s) allow(s) the weight to let off. And that means you need strength and muscle tone that can only come from practice. The secret to excellent accuracy (as shown by Mr. Anthony Coppola at an estimated range of 37 yards) is the result of practice, and it's not unusual to develop tendinitis in the process of becoming proficient with a bow. Also notice that Anthony is muscular and probably pumps iron. Upper body strength and hand-eye coordination must be honed with pre season practice each year to make these types of quality shots with a bow. Also, he's using his index finger to trip a mechanical release instead of the Robin Hood two finger bowstring draw. These release triggers contribute greatly to shot-to-shot accuracy, and with the quality sights, bows and equipment in the right hands amazing accuracy can be the rule instead of the exception. ________________________ "Advantages of shooting a compound bow * You can shoot much farther with a compound bow since there is more energy stored in the bow at full draw. You can shoot more weight and that means more speed, and the arrow will travel flatter and farther. * Shooting a compound bow provides better accuracy since the string is pulled back to the same point every time, and let off allows you to aim longer at full draw. There is minimal error unlike a traditional bow. * The use of a release aid makes shooting a bow much more consistent than using fingers. There is less contact on the string and therefore less room for error. The bow string can be released either by a trigger or back tension.__wiki _________________________ A word of caution for those who may wish to take up bowhunting. Modern broadheads are so sharp that if in the process of field dressing a deer you accidentally find one inside the animal that was healed over it could injure one so badly that a helicopter airlift may be required to save the life! Extreme caution is also necessary in mounting, transporting and climbing with broadheads, as well as when shooting them. (Arrows can flip around if hastily nocked and injure the shooter, and the last thing you want is to try and safely and quickly de-tree while rapidly desanguinating, especially in a climbing deer stand!) Here are lighted nocks to help those who wish to maximize their skills and accuracy. Unlike the gun seasons when drunks, land pirates and escaped war criminals come out with rusty 12 ga smokepoles or grandpappy's ol' 03A3 with FMJ military ammo, and the only practice they get is when they hastily miss deer often with little regard for the locations of others in the woods, you meet a better class of hunter and gentlemen (and gentlewimmen) among bow hunters. It requires a dedication and the honing of skills (like scouting, scent control and the ability to remain still) that too many gun hunters never bother with, because firearms often allow multiple (often poorly placed) shots at greater ranges, and even the dumbest damn sister loving hillbilly can kill deer with a long gun, before the moonshine blinds him and he falls out of the tree and calls it a day.
Compund bow, broadheads and target arrows. Even though I'm right-handed and right-eyed, I pull with my left, palm out, and hold and aim the bow with my right. Just like the guy in the video. My sister had a compund bow for a long time and in her case, little as she is, could pull a 35-pound bow.
My sister had a compound bow for a long time and in her case, little as she is, could pull a 35-pound bow. I really wish I could shoot a bow. Unfortunately, years of lifting and carrying Hammond-B3 organs up and down snow-covered nightclub fire escapes pretty well ruined both rotator cuffs. My bass player and I humped the organs through every band we ever worked with, because we good naturedly accepted it as our job. He was a 200 lb ex college football player but I was simply lifting something that was too heavy (over 420 lbs) for my skinny, 150 lb ass, and now I pay a price for that youthful excess. (I played guitar and did it as favors for the keyboardists) The irony of it is there are electronic keyboards that duplicate the B3 sound now, and coupled with a Leslie speaker (with revolving horns) they're indistinguishable from the original B3/Leslie chorale sounds.
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
#4. To: tom007 (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#5. To: Jethro Tull, christine, cynicom (#1)
#6. To: Cynicom, turtle (#2)
Ozarks???
#7. To: tom007 (#6)
I did get some pictures of Turtle´s Mexican gurl friends - Ill show them to you when I get home.
#8. To: Cynicom, tom007 (#2)
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#9. To: Turtle (#8)
#10. To: tom007 (#0)
#11. To: Turtle (#8)
#12. To: HOUNDDAWG (#11)
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#13. To: Turtle (#12)
Compound bow, broadheads and target arrows. Even though I'm right-handed and right-eyed, I pull with my left, palm out, and hold and aim the bow with my right. Just like the guy in the video.
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