COLOMBIA 2008-NO HAY PARAISO SIN TETAS

Ain't No Paradise Without Tits--Colombian TV show

PREFACE:

Thanks to Cubanut for turning me on to the Maricaibo Club & area. It was this trip's revelation. Good meeting Sandman again and getting the local lowdown. Also good to meet the several CRT members who came and went during those weeks.

Many thanks to Boyd and the good folk at El Castillo-La Mansion. They not only put me up in grand style for my full 6 weeks (Room 5 at Castillo) but Boyd was an excellent guide & wingman. Who else would do 15 MP's in a day with me? Robert solved any and all problems with that Chicago sense of humor and Greg, as no one else can, provided the usual out-of-this-world bitches. Sure, I'm aware of other hotel options, but there is really no need to check anywhere else. Next year, same time, it's the Castillo for me.

Obviously, women come and go. In the MP's, this is a daily event. Lost--and missed--from last year were many great chicas, no longer on the scene. Unless you're coming to Medellin in the few months, some of the women described in this report may have already moved on. Here's hoping the information helps you.

MISCELLANIA & IMPRESSIONS

I didn't make it to El Penol (The Big Rock). I wanted to. Truth is, the cost of the day (250K) made it hard to justify. That is a lot of blowjobs.

Also wanted to get to the Escobar Ranch. It was bombed as he was vanquished, the charred remains left as some sort of testiment to Medellin of yore. Didn't make it.

Did make it to Pueblito Paisa, the Little Village. Spent time--about 20 minutes--looking over the touristy town of olde. So that's what a turn of the century Colombian barber shop looked like? Faaaaascinating.

Also made it to several parks I missed last time. Tranquility incarnate. The bird sanctuary was sublime. Now cabbie, get me back to the pig's intestines of Centro.

This takes us to a discussion of Medellin today. Of Ingrid Bettencourt freed. Of a new Colombia seen on an International stage. Of just how safe is safe, how under "control" is FARC, and is a new Colombia with massively increased tourism something I should root for?

Costa Rica, today, feels like the 51st state. It feels like Puerto Rico, or Coney Island. Cookie-cutter nature tourists. Fast food, Americano culture. The INNNNglish is everywhere. This is not the case in Colombia. And it's why I love the place. I would hate for it to change, but change is coming. Poblado is a construction zone. There are no end to the cement mixers, giant spools of steel cable, hundreds of workers in construction caps building the next condo complex, the next food megastore, or mall parking.

The airplane down is so different from a Costa Rica flight. Very few gringos. With Ingrid Bettencourt's freedom comes statements from Anderson Cooper on CNN, like: 'I was in Bogota last year. I could not believe how safe it was...' This makes my skin crawl. As does, for instance, a New York Times article on the changing state of Colombia. I'm glad for the Paisas. Truly, Medellin is undergoing an economic, political, and cultural revolution.

PREPARATIONS:

Two 50-pound suitcases checked-in, one 30-pound carry on. Women's clothing & lingerie, wigs, Halloween costumes, costume jewelry, clucking chicken, humping hound, fart pillows, party poppers, silly string... I bring anything that translates, anything that gets laugh or loosens the chicas up, anything that makes for a better experience. 10 out of 10 will remember Humphrey the Humping Hound over how well or poorly I fucked them.

Brought two cameras--Canon Powershot SD600 and an Olympus FE340 8.1 megapixel... Also a Panasonic mini-DV video recorder.

As I would find out in Miami...it's one thing to bring all this media down to Colombia, it's another to bring it back. You had best have a PLAN for how you will bring all those naughty photos home. You could find yourself staring in the eyes of a female Homeland Security officer who is NOT amused by your wigs and schoolgirl outfits. Do not do anything stupid down there.

Budget was $225 a day. This got me housed, fed, and laid 3X a day for 40 days. I tried to turn every stone, fuck every beautiful woman. This, for want of a better word, is suicidal! Physical ailments kicked my ass almost the entire time, and still do today. I sought out Centro MP girls, street chicas on Calle 53 & Mayorista, Mansion babes, free agents & semi-pros, strip club dancers from Fase Dos to San Diego to Maricaibo. Photos specify chicas by location. Onward and upward...

CHICAS: BY DAY

MANSION BABES:

YULI

Fav Mansion chica. Has it all--eye candy par excellance, sex freak to the max. Loves to pose for photos! Massage Parlor chicas with their "no face" photos get old fast. Body part shots, not exactly high asthestic. When a chica like Yuli poses, it takes the breath away--especially if she's wearing a blonde wig, Catholic schoolgirl outfit and sucking a lollipop. Or looks better in black latex than Kate Beckinsale in Underworld.

Photos: Yuli 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

"IF IT'S THURSDAY, IT MUST BE BERLIN."

While Barack Obama speaks before 200,000 in Berlin (and McCain press conferences outside a German restaurant-oh, the irony!-in battleground state Ohio) I entertain Yuli. What on earth do I get for 150K besides an hour of meaningless, anonymous sex? Try photographing her as a Wicked Fairy! Brought her out to the deck where the Castillo staff, having seen it all before, admitted never seeing anything like this. Sweetheart Yuli as evil fairy. See, this is what I'll remember. Well that, and the fact that later, three vibrators AND my dick weren't enough to satisfy her.

SAMY

Went from "first week" wide-eyed doe to sixth week ever-in-demand party girl. The ditzy routine got old--kinda like 50 year-old Madonna singing Like A Virgin--but despite the entire 8th Gringo Army spreading those legs last month, y'gotta love the girl. Sexy beast. When you're in missionary and you don't have to move because she's moving, well, you know the girl has...moves!

Photos: Samy 09 10 11 12 13

MAGALLY

Deadly blonde, sense of humor, good with cats and dogs, likes working out, hot chili and telenovelas, wants peace love and understanding, and will ride you with that long blonde hair flying for 60 fish. What more you need to know?

Photos: Magally 14 15

NATALIA

Wants to be a flight attendant...or was it a dental technician? Not the sexual freak that Samy or Yuli is, beautiful spinner nontheless. Contributing to her education was a pleasure.

Photos: Natalia 16 17 18

OTHERS

There are a few I missed, and regret missing. Best laid plans of mice and men...

Photo: Mansion Girl A 19
Photo: Mansion Girl A & Yuli 20
Photo: Mansion Girl B 21
Photo: Mansion Girl C 22
Photo: Mansion Girl D 23
Photo: Mansion Girl E 24

MASSAGE PARLORS

The downloadable map created by Boyd and Peter the Swiss Guy makes even a newbie an expert on the Centro Massage Parlor scene. If you're new to the Castillo-Mansion orbit, seek out Boyd. He gives a tour 3X a week. Centro MP's are an excellent daytime option. Seemingly hourly turnover makes it hard to keep track, but these were some favs...

LEIDY-BARCELONA

Read on ISG some dude sessioned with her 12 times. I went half that. Will make house calls pre or post work. Sex maniac. Bring a belt, rope or two by four to keep her in check. She will grind you into chorizo.

Photos: Leidy - Barcelona 25 26

CHRISTINA-ABYDOS

Classic spinner. Athletic, up for anything. Eye candy, sex freak. Working to become a hospital nurse...or was it a clinical psychologist? Fucking lots and lots of men until then.

Photo: Christina - Abydos 27

VALERY-PLAY MODEL

Curvy body, never the clock-watcher. Will stay after time is done. Valery is one of the best.

Photos: Valery - Play Model 28 29

STREET CHICAS: CALLE 53

JENNI AND CINDY

Love love LOVE the street chicas! Cindy had a kid since last year, Jeni wants to be a model. Laughs with Humphrey the Humping Hound, photos in French Maid gear. Pool hijinks. Jeni doesn't know how to swim but comes down the slide head first, counting on me to keep her afloat. Cindy and I naked in the sauna. Back to the room, together and seperado... down to the Mansion, then Oviedo. They like the racing rides as we wait on the movie to begin, the movie they are guaranteed to walk out on, the pizza we can't eat because of our...partying ways.

If you saw their existence on Calle 53 & De Grief you'd know why Pauly V might be the nearest thing to a fat White Knight they have. Selling it to dirty borrachos for $10 a go, here comes Pauly V in his black Polo top and Dockers, his fake Drakkar Noir, Mr. Style, to sweep 'em off their feet.

Can I tell you what I love?

I love crossing the street with two beautiful 19 year-olds hand in hand in hand.

I love buying movie tickets knowing full well they won't sit through it. TRANSFORMERS last year. BATMAN this year.

I love the commotion they make when they stroll into the Mansion. Filled with blackhaired cookie cutters, these lithe hard-bodied street assassins turn every head and inspire hard stares, even from the down-under Hugh Hefner, Aussie Greg himself.

I love Cindy as a new mom, showing me that thumbnail of her kid with pride.

I love walking down to Oviedo Mall talking pepperoni pizza but never eating, neither pepperoni nor Hawaiano.

Maybe a better scribe could describe...the cuddling which leads to Cindy kissing, Jeni dancing as she strips off clothes, Jeni riding, then Cindy down to, then Jeni up to, then Cindy, Jeni, Cindy....

Photos: Jeni - El Centro 30 31
Photos: Cindy - El Centro 32 33
Photos: Jeni & Cindy - El Centro 34 35

CAROLINA

Looked to Boyd by the pool and asked what he thought those back home would think of me laid out beside perfecta, hermosa 18 year-old CAROLINA. Sexo-Pool-Sexo, that's an Oreo! Lasted all of 9 minutes with her the first go. 50 year-old hands laid upon impossible sexuality. Oprah wouldn't approve.

Photos: Carolina - El Centro 36 37 38

OTHERS

Yadith, Valentina, Daniela...they're all there. Go to Calle 53 & De Grief. Look into Hotel Nuevo Paraiso. Look across the street. Keep your eyes peeled. Dangerous, sin duda, but the upside is....!

CHICAS: BY NIGHT

MARICAIBO CLUB

Thanks again to master monger Cubanut for dragging my ass down there. Didn't even know of it last trip. This year with Peter The Swiss' Map, saw that strip but didn't make it down. Was warned off: "Locals take all the hotties. Plus, it's Centro. You don't want to be down there at night." So, what happens? Cubanut leads 7 lillywhite gringos down there in two cabs. Jeeeesus!

Imagine this: Walk in to a ringing bell-here comes a live one! You're seated and the waiter wastes no time bringing you a 7-Up for 3500P, $2 bucks? Clip joint prices! Hardbodies abound. The ladies have an excellent sense of smell--who has got the $$$, USA capitol ejaculated in 3rd World economies. Sensorial destruction through blasting techno and strobe light. You small talk with the girl about Fellini movies, or global warming perhaps, until you tastefully steer the conversation to your desire to pin her against a wall and...read Keats to her.

ANDREA is in red. Blew her off twice and she hasn't seen you yet with her shark eye and 4% body fat. My main squeeze, YULY, isn't here, making it easier to maneuver. CAMILLA and I took the plunge last week (literally, you have to duck under the bar top to get to the 3 burlesque style backrooms--15K for the room, 50K for the girl= $40) where chicas dress and noises emerge in non-stop chaotic sexual improvisation. Out front, on stage, 4 dancers writhe in cowgirl outfits. That's tame compared to last week where an volunteer was brought on stage and asked to "perform" with two of the gals. He couldn't, amdist hoots and howls. Electronica makes it necessary to scream in your gal's ear. Many toasts with Ron Medellin rum--buy a bottle, become a rock star, chica kisses for a shot or two. Down the strip is AMERICANO, where girls hump polls and writhe in shaving crème. Toulouse Lautrec would love EXECUTIVO. Crepe paper sunflowers on the walls, sombreros hang from the ceiling for want of any design concept. Whisky-stained Paisas outdrink no-ass Paisa men without cash to fuck. Together they whirl in .80 cent a beer haze, slow dancing to mariache achordians and violins, heart strings of Peckipah soundtrack music rise up over the Centro strip. Fade out.

Photos: Yuly - Maricaibo 39 40 41 42
Photo: Andrea - Maricaibo 43

XIMENA

Improvisation! That's what you get on the Maricaibo strip. She, eating a piece of carrot cake outside Maricaibo Club. Ten minutes later we're making out in the back of a yellow cab heading to Poblado. I show her the pool, tell her Castillo is my home and she believes it. Show her my humping dog and clucking chicken, put the blonde wig on her, crazy photos, show her my 3 vibrators, she squeels "let's fuck!" Afterwards in the shower...her skin like a baby seal, reach for her ass. These are the good old days.

Photo: Ximena - Maricaibo 44

CENTRO

53 & De Grief, at night? Are you crazy? The chicos swerve by on Pilsen or glue. Meat vendors whip up clouds of intestine smoke. The smell of it...pure Bukowski-land. It's meth-amphetamine Bennies, Kerouac and Cassady searching for kicks all night in and out of Tabernas. It's Henry Miller in Montmartre-he would have loved this place! The fat Botero horseman, chunky naked Botero warrior and his stone penis. Raggaeton and salsa pour out from the tabernas. When you walk down the stairs for the "Vegas Show" here, you may not walk back out. And the street action!

Surrounded in no more than 5 minutes by YADITH, VALENTINA, JENI. All want a piece of your humble narrator, to touch his soft....wallet. Love to oblige and could, $60 for all 3. Then I see Jeni's friend DANIELA. Oh oh oh. Jeni says, ‘Want to go with her?" She brings her to me. 18 and a day, we're upstairs in a decrepit stinking hotel room, her tongue in my mouth when...a knock. Cops? Uhuh. It's CINDY. "I know you‘re in there, Pablo!" I love street girls fighting over my tired ass but can it wait 10 minutes? Nope. Stop what we're doing, let Cindy in. New mom loves her kid, mostly off the street now. So what's that's smell on her breath? Oh yes, glue. Cindy, why?

MAYORISTA

Tempted to call Mayorista a disappointment this trip. Tempted. Then I look at the photos of MIRLEE, ALEJANDRA, NATALIA, CAROLINA. All come from Mayorista. Granted, most of these were discoveries from last year--the aging they do from 18 to 19 ain't exactly Dorian Grey! Like fine wine they improve, and fuck you all the better. ALEJANDRA is the funniest chica I know, great people. "Y que mas?!" NATALIA, flaky and flighty, but that face! MIRLEE, unconscious beauty. Put her on top and marvel at the work of nature. Recommendation: Skip Mayorista Sunday-Wednesday. Lots of the best chicas aren't there. Hit the strip clubs, call the Mansion girls or hit Maricaibo top of the week, then Mayorista Friday-Saturday.

Photo: Alejandra - Mayorista 45
Photo: Natalia - Mayorista 46
Photos: Mirlee - Mayorista 47 48 49 50 51

APOTEOSIS

Pulled a great one out of this mid-level joint. TIFFANY proves the existence of a greater Being each time she pulls her tanga from her butt cheeks.

Photo: Tiffany - Apoteosis 52

SAN DIEGO & FASE DOS

San Diego was loaded this trip. Get over there. 100K per shot. I was waylaid by Maricaibo- Mayorista and didn't delve deeply. Fase Dos, likewise, loaded. Worth it if you don't mind paying the 150K plus entrance fee plus drinks plus taxi. Worth it, that is, for SARA.

Photos: Sara - Fase Dos 53 54 55 56 57

LAST IMPRESSIONS:

BURNOUT

You know you're burned out when you scheme to get OUT of dates with beautiful women.

You know you're burned out when you go Round 1 with a chica and she's naked and asks about Round 2 and you pause. She asks again, and you pause again. "Want to go again?" "Do you?" "Do you?" "No, you tell me." "You tell me..."

You know you're burned out when you can't sleep because of gripe, the South American cold you suffer from, after kissing 40 women in as many days.

Gripe signs: Hot head, cold feet. Hacking cough in throat, then to nose (goodbye sleep),
then to chest. The body ache (maybe from the stomach hell of popping anti-acids because the Viagra burns.) Face flush. Shits. Fever. Body feels like a science project. Know the feeling?

One time felt like croaking, right there in the Castillo pool. Not a bad way for a writer to go! Like William Holden in Sunset Boulevard. Pauly Vegas found floating, a mourning 19 year-old at pool's edge, tears for police who console her, as she mutters: 'What an artist we've lost!'

CNN EFFECT

"Beating the Reaper isn't about living longer. It's about living well." Randy Pausch.

"I'm Wolf Blizter, YOU'RE IN THE SITUATION ROOM!" "What does Barack Obama consider the middle class?" "And why didn't he visit the troops? He had time to SHOOT HOOPS!"

I've escaped CNN awhile, but I'm days away from its grasp. This terrifies. It scares me far more than safety issues in Colombia. Your biggest danger in Poblado is a heart attack from walking back up Loma Alejandria. Or getting clipped in stopped traffic by the motorcycles that ride the lines between lanes. CNN never sleeps, and never stops: "Delta loses 1 billion this quarter! Bailouts of Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae! 4.50 per gallon gas! BREAKING NEWS!--Coney Island, Joey Chestnut takes the Mustard Yellow belt back from Kobyashi consuming 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes!"

The redheaded woodpeckers outside my Medellin window don't care about Joey Chestnut.

Neither do I.

MONGERING WITH AIRLINE PILOTS:

I don't want to monger with my airline captain. I did so this trip. Perfectly jovial fellow. Wasn't flying my plane out but told me who was and how much that guy enjoyed mongering. Man, don't tell me that! I want a Captain who is a Kiwanes Club member! He speaks with a calm, comforting Southern accent. He's 60 but vigorous, ex-Navy, grandkids, a pillar of the community!

This fellow also told me stories about the airlines. Maintenance guys leaving bolts undone, which come loose and start smoking during takeoff, tower screaming down "you're on fire!" Turbulence stories. And something else you might not know: In the event of a crash, cheapskate airline companies only pay the crew's family to the point of impact. If you die going down in Kansas en route to Thailand, well by God, you should only be paid far as Kansas!

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, PART 3:

It Ain't Manhattan...In Medellin, the minute you raise your hand, a cab appears. Zero wait.

It Ain't Chicago....In Medellin, the minute you walk down the stairs, the A train approaches, clean, safe, fast...Mayor Daley, you listening?

Who needs Denny's?...4 egg and 2 pancake breakfast whilst golden squirrels fly about down by the Castillo pool.

Sound of the whippoorwill? Nature action, or was it a chica moaning in the room next door?

About this "hobby"... Depraved? Selfish? Sick? Addicted? Think of all the words people use to describe your involvement with this "hobby". Then go down to the pool with your 19 year old. Cotton candy clouds. 75 degrees sunny and zero humidity (not 90 degrees and 90 humidity in, say, Chicago.) Your chica smooches you, lays back in her lounger, singing in Spanish "the hardest part is living without you."

BETWEEN PRADO AND PARQUE BERRIO: BEAUTY IS THE UGLINESS

Walk that ugly stretch between Prado and Parque Berrio, here's what you'll find:

Bootleggers of salsa, the endless software pirates, jacket covers of movies and music laid out on blankets, hocked like baseball cards. SONY execs would shit...

Glue sniffers under Botero sculptures, brown bag breathing and cats with whiskers...

Glue sold at sidewalk handcarts, sold next to the Winny the Pooh hats...

Sandwich-board gals sell cellphone minutos, next to the Paisa with no legs leaning against a lampost eating a papaya...

Mad achordian music from Taberna Las Rocas, on down to the La Quinta where 15 Paisas 5-6 inch tall sip Pilsen in and out of goldenrod sun.

Mariachi music drowns out the Chicklet vendors and squabbling, Botero-assed whores...

Lime, green banano, chorizo, cebola vendors hawk in chaotic unity and non-unity...

Soldados with M-16 rifles eating champinones at Bar Savoy...

Balcony-hugging borrachos nodding off in lawn chairs...

Mean Paisas stalk the square, day bright and fair, flip a cripple a nickel, kick a pigeon in the air.

V FOR VETTED

Lastly, my friends, before you dial out, here's a cautionary tale to make your hair stand on end!

American Airlines flight into Miami. Stumbled off the plane. There, blocking our path: 3 Homeland Security Officers. I'm dying. 9 hour flight, rising at 3am, no sleep in 2+ nights. Deep thirst. Gripe. Probably looked like a drug addict, though soon it became clear they were looking for something else....

I wasn't the only one chosen. 5 of us in all. 3 males (drug mules?) female (?) and me. Greeted us off the plane with rapid fire questioning: "Why were you in Colombia? Why so long there? Why were you there last year? Where do you stay? Who do you know there? What do you do in Chicago? Why so often to Costa Rica?' Low key answers didn't help. They pulled me aside. I would be SECONDARIED. Off we went to get the bags. This took quite a while. Then to the dirty back room. This is the room where you get your AIDS test result. The bad lighting--the light of the Bush realm, the coin of the Bush realm--Fear. These demi-Gods with their question patterns, the cold stares, the examinations of the bottoms of shaving cans. A picture of Cindy's 4 month old kid I kept as a souvenir. "What's this?" asks HS bitch. 4 months old! I was last, of course. One by one they rifled through bags of the others. I had to laugh, imagining Miss Homeland Security's face when she opened up the bag with 3 dildos and the French Maid outfit, then the 3 Catholic Schoolgirl outfits. My turn. Here's where some luck happened. Hispanic guy took my camera and video bag. He didn't seem anywhere near as interested as she, who had the most inoffensive bag, mostly filled with clothes. Still, she pulls out and dutifully puts to one side the chica phone numbers, the photocopy of Carolina's cedula (ironic that that proof could cook my goose!) cards from Medellin clubs. Third guy goes for the bag with CD'S, says he wants to test them. "What are you looking for?" "Kiddy porn," he says casually. "Whatever," I say, beat to shit. "I'm sorry," says he, radar up for ANY protest. "Go right ahead," says I. Latina Homeland Security bitch is out for blood. She wants my liberty. She wants dirt. The guy pulls about 10 CD's. Now, I know I buried my photos on a disc about 10 deep. No underage chicas but it wouldn't have mattered. If they had found photos they could have detained me. The burden of proof in writing that photo subjects are 18--which I didn't have--is on me! One by one they go through them on their high tech machinery. He comes back with my passport. "It's just our job. If you had kids, you'd understand. Have a nice day."

Prepare to face people like this, folks. Don't do anything stupid down there.

FOR CAROLINA

*This report is dedicated to Carolina, 19, photo 35489. In May she was inside her house with her two year-old child and husband. The ground gave way during a landslide. The house was swept away, all died. She will be missed by those who knew her.

PAULY VEGAS

Very well done. Great, well written report. They tried to put me in room 5 when I was there, I couldn't deal with the size. How'd you do a month there?

unbelieveable report.


thanks man.

PV:

Excellent report, great photos....glad you had the chance to live the life...

Don't you just enjoy your welcome home attitude of Homeland Security...

Absolutely brilliant!

Try Zithromax.

Clap, Clap, Clap! Excellent Pauley. Sorry we didn't have more time together but you were obviously a "very busy" guy.

Have a simple solution for you. Bring the outfits and just leave em here. I'll store em for you. No need to bring em back and forth or deal with HLS.

Ask CN. My storage rates are very reasonable....he he! I have had one of his T-shirts for over 2 years.

Great report and many great pictures!

thanks

Great Report.. One of the great things about these photos is, it really captures the true beauty of the women of Colombia... as most of you know its very difficult to take pictures when 9 times out of 10 it doesn't truly capture the "real" beauty of the girls.. These are some of the best pictures i have seen up here, with the exception of Cubanut's of course ;)

Speaking of storage, Sandman, do you happen to have my bag of bikinis???? The GPs in Rio are asking me where they went,

Great report. It is a shame, though, that the Land of the Free is a thing of the past. Bush and the Religious Right have hijacked our liberty. The terrorists have won.

Thanks for the nice words, guys. And many thanks to the Administrator for putting the photos where they belong!

Now it's back to the money making mountain again...
Sisyphus and his boulder...

Nice Photos .... TIFFANY soo tight, Had a great time with her but loves 2 drink! Wish I spoke Spanish!

Great job.

Pauly, fantastic report and photos. I envy you being able to make an extended trip like this. BTW, can you do a TR with pics of "money making mountain" - I need to find that place and travel there soon.

You probably know that the TV show is broadcast every weeknight in the U.S. by Telemundo as "Sin Senos, No Hay Paraiso". Unintentionally hilarious and so much Columbian eye candy.

I have bad news for you! Alot of that show is produced in Mexico! lol

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That might be news to me if it is true, but neither good nor bad news. Much of the current story takes place in Mexico, but I believe the credits indicate that it is a Columbian production. Don't know what country the hot actresses hail from, but I do plan on looking a couple of them up some time just in case any of those senos/tetas have ever been presented sin ropa. I'll have to do a search on "Señor Piel".

Paul...a stunningly good report and the pics are awesome. I nominate this as the best overall report on Medellin since my last one (the one that did not get banned). Although Cubanuts pictures can't be beaten...the level of detail you provide and your witty style is to be admired.

Thats it...I am going back down to america sur soon. Sad to see that Cindy is back on the glue. I hope she stopped for the baby.

rm

Great job Pauly! From your photos I liked Yuli, Valery, Carolina & Samy the best. You are a bit of a legend at the Castillo. I hope to go on the hunt with you one day.

You can watch the episodes of the original Colombian version of "Sin Tetas. . ." on YouTube. What's on Telemundo now is the Mexican version, although I think they kept much of the plot and dialog about the same. There's also a version out in Spain, although from the clips I've seen on YouTube, that one is quite different.

That "Betty La Fea" soap is another example of a show that was originally Colombian that ended up with several versions besides the Mexican one.

Not exactly, the Telemundo show is produced in Columbia and also partly shot in Durango, Mexico.

“Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso”, taped at Telemundo’s production centers in Bogota and Girardot, Colombia; and in the city of Durango, Mexico, is a novela that touches upon social issues affecting today’s Hispanic women, such as family values and education, lack of self esteem, the risks of plastic surgery, the denigration of women, and peer pressure.

http://www.nhmc.org/spotlight/?id=39

And yes it does appear that U.S. networks are planning to do an English language version a la Ugly Betty.

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Bwana,

Your bikinis, along with a bagful of mine and a lot of other stuff I was storing there, were confiscated by our friendly French landlord who offered to let me store stuff there until I returned.

It was a funny encounter. "Here sandman, just store your stuff in this closet, lock it and get it when you return" Three month later when I went back, "I removed all your stuff from my closet and got rid of it. "Don't bother me with your petty stuff. You weren't paying me to store it here in the first place".

Thank goodness Sweet grabbed the valuable stuff for me but I have seen photos of some of his apartments with my stuff in them. 201 TV/stereo stand is mine; Penthouse coffeemaker, spice rack and probably lots of kitchen utensils are mine (or were). Not sure what he did with all my clothes and some of the electronics I had there.

Oh well, past history, water over the dam and everything replaceable........except his French
arrogance!

So PIerre tossed 18 perfectly good Brasilian bikinis??? He will pay for that! Maybe I'll do a thorough search of the penthouse to see if they turn up.

Bastard! I bought them in bulk for 10 reais a piece, which at the time was less than $3. I suspect I'd be lucky to get them for less than $9 each now.

Who knows. He may have kept them, given them to girls, pitched them. I know I was mad as hell about not being able to get my stuff back from him and him refusing to even discuss it.


"The French"....

"If they had found photos they could have detained me. The burden of proof in writing that photo subjects are 18--which I didn't have--is on me!"

Is that true?

I believe that that particular burden of proof only resides with you if you publish the photos/videos. Of course you could be detained on suspicion.

Of course there is no practicable way of proving the age of girls in pics - finding the pics on you is deemed ample reason for further investigation.

Complete overreaction, of course, but when I went back to Costa Rica, after Colombia, I asked for cedulas from the girls and put them on video. Also for video, had them ON CAMERA say that it was ok to film. Cedulas and permission, is that enough Homeland Security? Or do I need to promise to vote Republican?

The bottom line is that if you do not publish the images, the burden of proof is on the government to prove that they are not of age. They do have the discretion to hassle you.

I have been back and forth between Central and South America and the US many times over the last 7 years and have never been hassled. However, I stopped transporting images about 5 years ago, just in case.

All the government has to do is have a jury or judge agree that the women in the photos are not over 18. Then there is the appeals process that you may or may not win.

The government's case could be indeed bogus, the women may definately be over 18...however, meanwhile, you have spent tens of thousands on legal fees and wasted time and had to explain to friends/employer about your court melodrama.

You may come out innocent in the end but financially and emotionally ruined....

(Message edited by Portege on August 24, 2008)

By the way, some of the women in the photos look like all those cute young latin chicks hanging around the starbucks in socal. The ones who seem sooo close yet sooo far away.

For all practical purposes, the government is not going to bring a case without evidence. And they most certainly will not have any kind of trial on a witch hunt.

Yes, I understand that the sky can fall. I'm just betting that it won't.

Paulyvegas,

Apparently the only question this administration asks is, "What do you think of Roe vs Wade?"

Can a few CH guys name best site to store Photos?

I don't travel with my laptop, so I purchased a USB port at Best Buy that you can put your memory card into (it came with the memory card).

I then just go to an internet cafe email the pictures to myself and erase them from my memory card.

Yahoo address has unlimited memory.

When I get home I download them.

I dont travel with any laptop anywhere anymore whatsoever. Do you have an IPOD? any IPOD PRIOR to the touch can be quite a handy inocuous storage device. But then you need to buy the digital camera adapter. Then I upload all pics and vids to my IPOD. Mine hold 60gigs and I like to take pictures and vids at pretty HIGH REZ...Then I go through my camera and delete any "objectional" photos and leave the friends and candid photos on the memory card. #1 Going home with a digital camera and coming back with EMPTY digital cards looks funny and suspicious and #2 Uploading gigs of digital pics via hotel or apartment wifi or internet cafe can be very time consuming.

I agree w/sobe9ball, i only download pics with nudity, and it can take some time on a slow connection. You want to leave pictures on your camera. I always get a lot of tourist photos.

I have heard all kinds of stories regarding the thoroughness of the checks (i.e. they look for extra memory cards, etc.) when they check your cameras. I bet that sooner or later they will be checking ipods (it's not as if they don't own them themselves).

if you really want to be safe you don't want to have anything on you that is questionable when you go through customs. it does seem that some ports of entry are much more tougher on single men than others (I have heard that San Francisco targets just about any single man coming from Thailand).

What sucks is you are guilty until proven innocent. There have been a number of reports regarding confiscation of laptops for "further investigation". That is a tough one to explain when it is a company laptop. Lots of bargirls in their 20's may appear "young" to someone who wants to make your life miserable.

I have had good luck storing photos on Flickr. Unlike Google Web Albums, Flickr doesn't mind nudes as long as they are marked private, over 18.

I also use Mozy as an online back-up. You can restore photos and videos. Flickr will not allow any questionable videos.

Av8tr turned me onto Pbase.com Pretty good site and you can password protect stuff.

I am always weary of putting ANYTHING in cyberspace, it becomes too public and SOMEBODY has to have access and monitor the stuff in one way or another. Maybe a pay web space storage site though.

My God, these girls are all gorgeous, there isn't a single one I wouldn't give my right arm for a night with! I have been to many countires in Asia, but I can see a trip to Colombia on the horizon.

Nice report. I'm a veteran of Medellin, nine trips and counting. The woman, not just the young girls, are very beautiful. I've seen the hottest mother-daughter combinations walking around the city, in malls (especially el Tesoro) I have ever seen in my life. To everyone on the board, Medellin is a must experience.

Is that Maria Eliza in your section on Fase Dos?

Yuli and Samy are incredible. Would love to see more of them.

Pauly mi amigo - glad we hooked up in CR again finally this time around - good catching up with you. Though Rio is now on the horizon with a definite monster trip in the works, I still kind of miss Medellin and wish I could go back sooner. Though I pretty much got the best of the Mansion paisas last time - Yuli, Liza, Paola, Evelyn, Daniela, etc., there is still so much untapped for me there. And though I'm now shooting video in Costa Rica, fortunately haven't been hassled by any Homeland Security goons yet - though I will be taking additional precautions next time around. Anyways, great report as always - definitely better on this site than on CRT with the pics integrated.

Paulyvegas,

One word describe this report as a whole and that is "outstanding'.

Paisas are so beautiful and those outfits are outrages.

Definitely make me think I need to take more than just money with me on my next trip to Medellin.



Cheers,


Cubanut