Attention! - 13th Annual Palm Springs Weekend, 2017

[+ OliverSaks]

Prevaricating? Big words! Big words! You are giving this non-native speaker a headache! Haha!

I googled it too (and I'm a native speaker)

[mike carey]

I googled it too (and I'm a native speaker)

Haha, after PK commented, I googled it as well to make sure that I hadn't been labouring under a misapprehension of what the word meant!

[TopTierTop]

Lol Rico, from reading your posts in here, you have no difficulty in your second (third?) language! That said, my humble apologies for any headaches caused. (Pardon my curiousity, but you didn't by chance grow up in that, for want of a better description, 'Anglo' community in Argentina did you?)

You spelled curiosity wrong, so I feel better.

I grew up in Ecuador speaking only

Spanish. How I learned to write well in English is a really long story. The short version is that I have been communicating in writing with English speakers (mostly North Americans) since I was a teenager. Speaking on a regular basis is relatively new. I find it much, much easier to find the right words in writing than to find the right words when I am speaking.

[+ purplekow]

WEll that you find the right words at all is a credit to you. Of course, with me, you only need on right word and the is "Yes"

[mike carey]

You spelled curiosity wrong, so I feel better.

Touché! I wish I could say it was deliberate.

[Despardo]

I googled it too (and I'm a native speaker)

The meaning suggests a deliberate effort to obfuscate or to deceive. A polite way to say lying or intentionally misleading. I had to check to be sure.

[Despardo]

You spelled curiosity wrong, so I feel better.

I grew up in Ecuador speaking only

Spanish. How I learned to write well in English is a really long story. The short version is that I have been communicating in writing with English speakers (mostly North Americans) since I was a teenager. Speaking on a regular basis is relatively new. I find it much, much easier to find the right words in writing than to find the right words when I am speaking.

I admire anyone who speaks more languages than I do. Ecuadorians speak a clear and beautifully pronounced Spanish which is much easier to understand than the versions spoken in many other Spanish speaking countries. I understand that Americans travel there to study Spanish. They travel to Antigua, Guatemala for the same reason. English spelling and pronunciation is a total nightmare.

[+ Funguy]

MC - do NOT forget those foot/ankle flexes and extensions and a walk around (or about?) on the plane. Need to make sure the circulation in the legs is good.

Sorry, the doctor in me took hold!

[TopTierTop]

I admire anyone who speaks more languages than I do. Ecuadorians speak a clear and beautifully pronounced Spanish which is much easier to understand than the versions spoken in many other Spanish speaking countries. I understand that Americans travel there to study Spanish. They travel to Antigua, Guatemala for the same reason. English spelling and pronunciation is a total nightmare.

Thanks. And yes, that is all true!

[BabyBoomer]

MC - do NOT forget those foot/ankle flexes and extensions and a walk around (or about?) on the plane. Need to make sure the circulation in the legs is good.

Sorry, the doctor in me took hold!

 

DVT.

 

~Boomer ~

[TruthBTold]

You spelled curiosity wrong, so I feel better.

I grew up in Ecuador speaking only

Spanish. How I learned to write well in English is a really long story. The short version is that I have been communicating in writing with English speakers (mostly North Americans) since I was a teenager. Speaking on a regular basis is relatively new. I find it much, much easier to find the right words in writing than to find the right words when I am speaking.

 

I have a second cousin (my 1st cousin's daughter) who lives in Quito. She really loves it. Part of it may be that she is living with her gorgeous Latin husband (she is also beautiful and really nice). At any rate, she said that Equador has continually been voted the best place to retire to so I have been angling to go and visit her.

[mike carey]

At any rate, she said that Equador has continually been voted the best place to retire to so I have been angling to go and visit her.

I can believe that (although I've heard good things about Costa Rica too), but that's based only on a short visit, and really only to Quito and a couple of day trips from there.

[Despardo]

I can believe that (although I've heard good things about Costa Rica too), but that's based only on a short visit, and really only to Quito and a couple of day trips from there.

I found Quito to be "challenging." I did not feel safe there. I liked Cuenca much better--you can walk around the downtown at night. Great farmers' market in Cuenca--exotic fruit for miles. I found I am subject to altitude sickness--it never wore off except during 4 days in the Amazon region where I could breathe, humidity be damned (no big deal really.) Also liked the cloud forests near Mindo. Ecuador is about the size of Colorado, but has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined.

[TopTierTop]

I found Quito to be "challenging." I did not feel safe there. I liked Cuenca much better--you can walk around the downtown at night. Great farmers' market in Cuenca--exotic fruit for miles. I found I am subject to altitude sickness--it never wore off except during 4 days in the Amazon region where I could breathe, humidity be damned (no big deal really.) Also liked the cloud forests near Mindo. Ecuador is about the size of Colorado, but has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined.

Cuenca is where I was born and raised. I lived in Quito my last year before coming to to the US this past July.

[mike carey]

Clearly I have more of Ecuador to see. From Quito I only travelled far enough south to go to Cotopaxi. I had no altitude problems in Quito, but was a little more fragile in Cusco. I adapted there reasonably quickly, though.

[+ OliverSaks]

@TopTierTop is a skilled tour guide on top of his other habilidades, perhaps.

[mike carey]

@TopTierTop is a skilled tour guide on top of his other habilidades, perhaps.

I'm sure he is, but I'm not sure that his services in that role fall within my budget!!

[leeper]

I found Quito to be "challenging." I did not feel safe there. I liked Cuenca much better--you can walk around the downtown at night. Great farmers' market in Cuenca--exotic fruit for miles. I found I am subject to altitude sickness--it never wore off except during 4 days in the Amazon region where I could breathe, humidity be damned (no big deal really.) Also liked the cloud forests near Mindo. Ecuador is about the size of Colorado, but has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined.

I had my laptop and cellphone stolen at the Quito airport just after a I landed in the country, Spent a month in Cuenca - it is a lovely city with a lot of American expats. (My apologies in advance for posting off the main topic of the thread.)

[TruthBTold]

I'm sure he is, but I'm not sure that his services in that role fall within my budget!!

 

I'm with you on that but maybe to see home he might make an exception.

[mike carey]

I'm with you on that but maybe to see home he might make an exception

From what I've seen, I like Rico a lot, and my curiousity (sic) is piqued. I'm looking forward to a chat over a coffee, no more, no less.

[+ azdr0710]

cross-posted with the other thread on the PS weekend.......

 

if any of the attendees is interested in doing some easy four-wheeling desert exploring and/or scenic hiking around the Coachella Valley region on Friday, Saturday before the dinner, or Sunday before the pool party, I'd be glad to drive and lead the expedition......please use the message system here on the forum to contact me and we'll try to get a small group together......

 

 

http://www.theadventureportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Joshua-Tree-forest-Berdoo-Canyon-Road.jpg

 

http://68.media.tumblr.com/74609243b45e09b2c62e3732a7e42dea/tumblr_msdtr7Hq4K1s0tgwso1_500.jpg

 

[+ sf westcoaster]

@TopTierTop is a skilled tour guide on top of his other habilidades, perhaps.

I love to travel and know that having a guide from the country I am visiting is an incredible way to see and learn about that country. Unfortunately, "big sigh " I fall out side of TopTier's service parameters, so I will have to delay visiting his country of origin, until I find another guide.

[Spencer L]

sounds like a fun time

[TopTierTop]

I love to travel and know that having a guide from the country I am visiting is an incredible way to see and learn about that country. Unfortunately, "big sigh " I fall out side of TopTier's service parameters, so I will have to delay visiting his country of origin, until I find another guide.

Fake news! Haha!

No male is outside my service parameters! I have older, regular clients who are only interested in time with me nude, a lot of body worship and non-reciprocal action. The only time age is an issue is with older guys who are looking for something more romantic, reciprocal, and intimate. That requires a level of chemistry that I haven't found exists when the age difference is great.

[jawjateck]

I notified our gracious host that I plan to attend, so I look forward to seeing yall there.......well, at least some of you.