Let's talk about our travels and vacations.

[MsRad]

Heading down to LA for Godspeed and Henry Rollins in an hour. It's not a far off, exotic destination, but I love traveling down there for shows and friends.

[dari]

Just got back from the Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas. That place is insane! It's like Vegas on a Caribbean island. There's watersides, the best lazy river, a monstrous aquarium, a casino, tons of beaches, a free movie theater, and delicious restaurants. The aquarium has sharks and huge sting rays in it. One of the waterslides is a tunnel that goes thru the aquarium. When we hit the tunnel, there was a shark just napping on it, a foot above our heads. Fuckin nuts!

Barb, I love that you love that resort like I love Vegas. Its kind of the Dave and Busters of the Caribbean!

[Jake]

Heading down to LA for Godspeed and Henry Rollins in an hour. It's not a far off, exotic destination, but I love traveling down there for shows and friends.

damn. you just missed the Black Fag / Henry and Glenn Forever art show

[ShawnPorter]

I went on a group trip to La Paz Mexico back in '05; bunch of tattooed and pierced weirdos (think 100+) in a little Mexican resort town. My sister in law and I rented a Casita with a pool that overlooked the Sea of Cortez. I was going through a pretty intense divorce so just laying out on the beach and spending time with that many friends was amazing.

We ended up swimming with sea lions in the middle of the sea, having one of our friends (who's an opera singer) do an impromptu Ave Maria on while standing in the ocean that ended up making EVERY local (predominantly Catholic) stop dead in their tracks till she finished and having kick ass all night BBQs/swimming parties at our place.

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I followed that up about 2 months later with a trip through London and Holland, but Mexico will always have a place in my heart.

[tammy]

shawn, we had a big ol tattoo get together in cabo 2 years ago....

[ShawnPorter]

shawn, we had a big ol tattoo get together in cabo 2 years ago....

There's nothing like it, yeah?

Just wearing flipflops all day and having all you can drink pina coladas. Plus, with us... no one stared at me cause I was with the green guy (erik).

It's always good form to bring a bigger weirdo than yourself to deflect attention.

We flew into/out of cabo, but didn't spend any time there. I guess we'll have to go again.

[Jake]

I went on a group trip to La Paz Mexico back in '05; bunch of tattooed and pierced weirdos (think 100+) in a little Mexican resort town. My sister in law and I rented a Casita with a pool that overlooked the Sea of Cortez. I was going through a pretty intense divorce so just laying out on the beach and spending time with that many friends was amazing.

We ended up swimming with sea lions in the middle of the sea, having one of our friends (who's an opera singer) do an impromptu Ave Maria on while standing in the ocean that ended up making EVERY local (predominantly Catholic) stop dead in their tracks till she finished and having kick ass all night BBQs/swimming parties at our place.

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I followed that up about 2 months later with a trip through London and Holland, but Mexico will always have a place in my heart.

That sounds awesome! I thought sea lions were aggressive around humans though?

[ShawnPorter]

That sounds awesome! I thought sea lions were aggressive around humans though?

The bigger ones stayed on the little outcropping of rocks. The younger ones darted all around us, bumping into us. It was weird- in the US we would have signed like 500 waivers, but in Mexico- we were snorkeling by a bunch of large aggressive sea creatures, creatures that SHARKS eat, off of little tiny boats. I think the group that went out there was about 25 strong... no paperwork other than handing them the $$. No "how to use a snorkel" training. Nothing.

We were in the middle of the Sea of Cortez- the only land was the rock that hundreds of large sea lions were on. So other than our boats we were in open water.

The first other animal we saw was a HUGE manta ray. It was really impressive. Till we figured if there's mantas.... there may be other things.

After that, it was a little tense. haha.

[dari]

It's always good form to bring a bigger weirdo than yourself to deflect attention.

Words to live by!