Originally Posted by mika (Post 188721)

hola gatogato,

everytime I come to the HUBB I see a new thread of yours, accidents, difficulties selling the bike, corrupt police and so on.

you know, if you are always negative, of course you will always attract negative situations.

your are on my favourite continent, and believe me, I have seen a bit of the world.

please stop telling everybody in every of your posts how dangerous South America is.

I spend two years, and 80.000km on the bike in South America. Two of the best years of my life. And I did not have any problems that I did not cause myself. Even when the police in Brazil handcuffed me, I was about to beat up a young stupid car driver.

BsAs is one of my favourite places, so dont be stupid and leave your money somewhere in a corner and than complain.

Saludos

Mika from Finnland

Originally Posted by albert crutcher (Post 188746)

To all the grouch old farts,I,m damn sure that you knew it all when you were 23,but then again I doubt it!!! This daft young lad has kept a whole load of us entertained at his laddish adventures around the continent of South America and we,ve all had the chance to pick holes in his naivety,some of us shout and complain,some of us just enjoy having a giggle at his youthfull enthusiasm.
I for one will be sorry when the daft bugger is gone and all thats left are all the grouchy tossers.
Que Viva GatoGato.
Aye and keep yer money in yer ****ing pocket from now on

Originally Posted by Dan 23 (Post 188751)

Hey Bert,

I'm all for naive cock-ups and laddish adventures - shit, I've made a living from them - but gatogato's tendency to follow his regular 'ay papi, esta arena en mi chucha' complaints with 'don't trust locals' generalisations everytime he loses a sock has become a wee bit wearing, and pushes this forum's signal to noise ratio in the wrong direction, no? And queering the pitch with over-dramatic claims of local criminality doesn't count as 'youthful enthusiasm' in my book.

I'm sure he's one of the good guys - I just wish he'd pause before posting yet another 'Never Drink Argentine Beer - it makes your head hurt and your wee smell funny - grrr!' headline.

Suerte, Dan

Originally Posted by MotoEdde (Post 188737)

To the CanoeGuy and all the Gatagato Haters,

Whoa guys...lets not start the hating that's equally awful to the negative comments GG initially posted...

Karma is a b*ch and its not worth jinxing ourselves with the wisdom of retrospect.

I think he gets it...and not because of our posts.

Originally Posted by BCK_973 (Post 188770)

Geoff, i met you shortly at our HU bunker in BA(means DAKARMOTOS).Reading the diferent postings here i would say that i was never robed here or in any place i was before.Maybe because i know if you give the oportunity.....they will take it.
It is of course sad to hear it in that way.And i know of other traveller who was robed a lot more of his back pack recently(another unlucky bike traveller who recently visited us) and didn´t post that here. THAT IS BASIC TRAVELLER KNOLEDGE!
Maybe you should change your id for GATO GATO got robed by one GATO(kind of a girl friend here,hahahaha)
Enjoy our city man! and don´t run out of lifes!!!
KH

Originally Posted by gatogato (Post 188776)

........Perhaps you are right that for this situation I was putting the guilt on South America instead of my own negligence.......

Originally Posted by gatogato (Post 188651)

Hey guys, I have been staying at my girlfriends apartment in Buenos Aires. To make a long story short I had $1000 US (in Argentinian pesos) that I received as a deposit for selling my motorcycle in Paraguay. I kept $700 US in my money belt which was inside my bag on the floor of the apartment.

Today I went to get money out of the money belt and was shocked to see only $200 out of the $700 US. I do not suspect my girl friend, but think that it was one of her friends or the doorman who has a key to all the apartments (most likely the doorman because he knew that I had sold my motorcycle and none of my gf`s stuff was robbed).

I have never been robbed of cash like this before. On the trip I have been very careful not to carry more than a $100 at a time until now. I figured that I was a week away from flying home and taking the risk of carrying the money was better that Western Union of 5%.

I was very wrong not to use Western Union and 5% was very cheap for protection in South America.