So what part of Europe are you from?

[leopardprey]

Yeah, Tasmania, but don't they have those little furry devils that travel around in whirlwinds of dust and consume humans on a whim?!? LOL LOL LOL

Heard the same thing from some relatives who have visited Tasmansia. They loved it!

But, I think out of the Three, New Zealand would do it for me. Mountains, plenty of hunting, and still easy to own firearms. Will get there soon, had many offers to travel there/move there from Kiwis that worked for me in Iraq. And as JJ always mentiones, one of the best places to shop for watches! Also, New Zealand has great Fly Fishing which I want to get into!

[leopardprey]

Timebroker,

So what parts of India did you travel through?

I took two multi month trips there myself and traveled to Kashmir, Ladakh, the Punjab, Simla, Chandigarh, Himachael Pradesh, and New Delhi. The only part south of Delhi I went to was Agra, of course, to see the Taj Maha. Really liked Northern India. Plan on a third trip the future to Darjeeling. Some of the Gurkhas who fought for me in Iraq live there and have invited me. Could see myself spending quite a bit of time in Darjeeling.

[S2000 Driver]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Tasmania, but don't they have those little furry devils that travel around in whirlwinds of dust and consume humans on a whim?!?...

Yes!

[leopardprey]

Oh Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[roadcarver]

Chad, when was the last time that you came back to North America? Looks like you're always stationed in the far east or asia region?

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Timebroker,

So what parts of India did you travel through?

I took two multi month trips there myself and traveled to Kashmir, Ladakh, the Punjab, Simla, Chandigarh, Himachael Pradesh, and New Delhi. The only part south of Delhi I went to was Agra, of course, to see the Taj Maha. Really liked Northern India. Plan on a third trip the future to Darjeeling. Some of the Gurkhas who fought for me in Iraq live there and have invited me. Could see myself spending quite a bit of time in Darjeeling.

[leopardprey]

Been overseas pretty much since 2002. And for about 10 years prior to that spent about half the time traveling/working/studying abroad. But, have come back to USA for a few weeks or few months here and there to see family and between jobs. One of these days need to settle down LOL LOL! Not all has been in Asia, lots of time in Southwest/Central Asia as well as about 7 months in Kosovo.

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Yeah, Tasmania, but don't they have those little furry devils that travel around in whirlwinds of dust and consume humans on a whim?!? LOL LOL LOL

Heard the same thing from some relatives who have visited Tasmansia. They loved it!

But, I think out of the Three, New Zealand would do it for me. Mountains, plenty of hunting, and still easy to own firearms. Will get there soon, had many offers to travel there/move there from Kiwis that worked for me in Iraq. And as JJ always mentiones, one of the best places to shop for watches! Also, New Zealand has great Fly Fishing which I want to get into!

Nephew was going to school in NZ with some sort of exchange program for a whole year. Fell in love with the country and is saving to go back soon, says everybody owns a yacht overthere!? .
Fly fishing?! Would love to learn that, used to fish a lot between age 6 - 14.
Going to Patagonia/Ushuaia region in a couple of months when the weather gets better, supposedly one of the best places in the world for fly fishing and trekking (and finding sleeper watches :).

[roadcarver]

I'd love to see the places that you go to! I should have done what you were doing prior to getting married and having a family!

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Been overseas pretty much since 2002. And for about 10 years prior to that spent about half the time traveling/working/studying abroad. But, have come back to USA for a few weeks or few months here and there to see family and between jobs. One of these days need to settle down LOL LOL! Not all has been in Asia, lots of time in Southwest/Central Asia as well as about 7 months in Kosovo.

[leopardprey]

YOu are definately going to have to post some photos and stories of you Patogonia trip! Sounds like a great adventure! What watch you taking with you?


I'd love to see the places that you go to! I should have done what you were doing prior to getting married and having a family!

Well, I have been very blessed in regards to overseas travel, but sometimes I think I should have done what you are doing and have gotten married and start a family!!!

Advantages and disadvatages to both. You will still be young when your kids are all grown up and out of the house and can travel then. Where as I will be in my early 40s, have all the travel done with and be starting a family then (eith my Hot looking mid 20s wife!!! LOL LOL LOL) Of course I will not have much energy to chase the young wife and little terrors around the house!! LOL LOL

[Blue Bull]

Originally Posted by ianmedium

We had to apologize for Apartheid for decades


And Hopefully will continue to do so!

Ever been to SA ????

[leopardprey]

Some may flame me for this, but from what I have seen and known, from my studies, visit to SA and many friends from SA; SA is much worse off now than in the "Aparthied Days". The liberal western media had no idea what they were talking about at the time. Mandela and his cornies, the ANC, is/was nothing more than a communist-terrorist organization. It sickens me to see what is happening in South Africa now.

[ianmedium]

Originally Posted by Blue Bull

Ever been to SA ????

yes! Sevearal times before and after!

[ianmedium]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Some may flame me for this, but from what I have seen and known, from my studies, visit to SA and many friends from SA; SA is much worse off now than in the "Aparthied Days". The liberal western media had no idea what they were talking about at the time. Mandela and his cornies, the ANC, is/was nothing more than a communist-terrorist organization. It sickens me to see what is happening in South Africa now.

Hmm? do you think the same of your country,as what happened to a large proportion of it's occupants not to long ago can draw similar parralles to SA?

There will never be an excuse for segregation...Never! IMO

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Timebroker,

So what parts of India did you travel through?

I took two multi month trips there myself and traveled to Kashmir, Ladakh, the Punjab, Simla, Chandigarh, Himachael Pradesh, and New Delhi. The only part south of Delhi I went to was Agra, of course, to see the Taj Maha. Really liked Northern India. Plan on a third trip the future to Darjeeling. Some of the Gurkhas who fought for me in Iraq live there and have invited me. Could see myself spending quite a bit of time in Darjeeling.

Was there for 2 and a half months at the end of 2005, left 2 days before the big tsunami.
Delhi to small village in Himachal Pradesh, walking through the Himalaya for 15 days, back to Delhi, Rajasthan up to Jaisalmer desert, Jodhpur, Jaipur to Agra. Ate a bad pasta, got food poisoning there (took my stomach almost 2 years to recover from that :) ). Train trip of 2000 km to Chennai for 2 whole days while being sick argh never again lol.
From there to Mahabalipuram, Pondicherry, back to Chennai.
Another train trip to the west coast (Kerala), Kochi, by river boat almost to Varkala and ending at Thrivandrum.
A lot of smaller villages too and forgot many of the other places/names, should have a look at my pictures to remember everything.
Best experiences were the Himalaya, Jaisalmer with a 2 day camel ride through the desert sleeping under the stars, Chennai and Varkala for it's awesome scenery and beach.
Planned to stay there for 4 - 6 months but the food poisoning messed everything up
And of course the national parks for birds, tigers and all that.
Definitely going back there someday, wanna go to Ladakh, Kashmir and all that.
Been to Sri Lanka when I was 22 but at the wrong period and the north was not that safe with the Tamil Tigers sigh.

[leopardprey]

Never said I believe in Segregation, or racism - very much against, but what has happened since Aprathied ended and the ANC took over, IMHO, has made SA a disaster. Crime rates increased, rapid HIV, restriction of rights, persecution of white, land taken away, etc...And the media blew things out of porportion, based on left wing propoganda and making it sound much worse in SA than it was at the time of Aparthied. SA is in pretty much Chaos now. Mandela and Tutu are not to be trusted. Ever hear of the "night of the long knives"? Same thing happened in Rhodhesia, once it became Zim. Same thing happened in the Rhodesian war as well, Western media tried to spin it as a war between Whites and Black, when it was a war against terror and most the so called "White" Rodhesian units where actually composed of more than 50% blacks fighting along side whites, against the terrorist.

There is no comparison between the civil rights movement of blacks in the 1950s and 1960s, to what has happended in SA in my opinion.

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

YOu are definately going to have to post some photos and stories of you Patogonia trip! Sounds like a great adventure! What watch you taking with you?

I definitely will post some pictures :)
Been here 3 times before for a total of 4 months since 2003 but mostly traveled north due to seasons.
If there is one country that has it all imo, is cheap, friendly people, safe to travel (south america), great transportation, many possibilities for trekking, rafting, mountain climbing, most beautiful waterfalls in the world etc etc it is Argentina... but that is my limited experience talking I guess ...

Do not think I will wear my Omega Megaquartz, probably Zenith Defy.

[leopardprey]

Ate a bad pasta, got food poisoning there (took my stomach almost 2 years to recover from that :) )

Me too, think that comes along with any trip to India!!! LOL LOL

Sounds like a great trip!!! We have been to a few of the same places!

Love the Indian Himalayas! Went for a week trekking in HP (1995), and spent a whole month trekking in Ladakh (1994)

India is definately an Adventure!

[leopardprey]

Back a while ago I was looking at buying some property in Argentina? Nice little 10 acre vinyard with a little 3 room house for about $50,000 US !!! About a 30 minute drive from a little transplanted Bavarian village (probably all ex-Nazis LOL LOL LOL)

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Back a while ago I was looking at buying some property in Argentina? Nice little 10 acre vinyard with a little 3 room house for about $50,000 US !!! About a 30 minute drive from a little transplanted Bavarian village (probably all ex-Nazis LOL LOL LOL)

Indeed :) Was that perhaps near Cordoba? They still celebrate German beer feasts there (even famous in argentina for that) but if it is a vineyard it probably will be in Mendoza?
There are places in Argentina where you can buy a place 5 times as big for that kinda money.
Definitely a good thing to buy property here, prices rising though, but Argentina will be back in the top 5 of the world in the next 20 years, they have all the resources you can imagine and it's the most western country in the whole of South America.
Whenever someone wants to visit Argentina let me know, meeting or traveling, it doesn't matter I'm serious about this.
And lets not forget, the most beautiful women in the world I see walking down the street every single day

[leopardprey]

And lets not forget, the most beautiful women in the world I see walking down the street every single day 2nd that!

And being that I like hunting, Argentian is the premier place in the world for wing/bird shooting! Also can hunt Wild Stag, Wild Boar and Pumas!

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

And lets not forget, the most beautiful women in the world I see walking down the street every single day 2nd that!

And being that I like hunting, Argentian is the premier place in the world for wing/bird shooting! Also can hunt Wild Stag, Wild Boar and Pumas!

Carpincho? Biggest rodents in the world, live in rivers, size of a medium/big sized dog hunted for their leather.
Pumas are hard to find, went to a nature park at the border with Bolivia to look for them but they hear and smell people from miles away.

Mmmmhhh too much?

[leopardprey]

Dont worry about OT, that is the way it is on TRF, Thread have a way of taking a life of their own!!! LOL

Here is a link to Cabelas, Argentina Hunts offered: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...t*intlsamerica

Hunting Large Cats in Africa or South America usually takes a lot of patience, scent control, and usually putting out live bait and then waiting silently sometimes for several days to a week. Where as in North America, hunting overpopulated Large Cats, involves several days of tracking through snow or several days of tracking with dogs. The one hunt I am really planning on is a Desert Mountain Lion hunt in Southwest USA. This usually involves 10-14 days of tracking on foot and hourseback and is an extremely rugged hunt.

But you are right about the them smelling you and seeing you first! When I was working Wildlife Conservation in Cambodia, we had several tigers in my area, and we always said if you ever see a Tiger, remember they have seen you first a 100 times. And on several occasions over the last decade in Cambodia, Tigers became maneaters.

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by leopardprey

Dont worry about OT, that is the way it is on TRF, Thread have a way of taking a life of their own!!! LOL

Here is a link to Cabelas, Argentina Hunts offered: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...t*intlsamerica

Hunting Large Cats in Africa or South America usually takes a lot of patience, scent control, and usually putting out live bait and then waiting silently sometimes for several days to a week. Where as in North America, hunting overpopulated Large Cats, involves several days of tracking through snow or several days of tracking with dogs. The one hunt I am really planning on is a Desert Mountain Lion hunt in Southwest USA. This usually involves 10-14 days of tracking on foot and hourseback and is an extremely rugged hunt.

But you are right about the them smelling you and seeing you first! When I was working Wildlife Conservation in Cambodia, we had several tigers in my area, and we always said if you ever see a Tiger, remember they have seen you first a 100 times. And on several occasions over the last decade in Cambodia, Tigers became maneaters.

Sundarban (?) region in India I believe, saw a documentary on how many people are eaten every month once they get a taste of us, watch out you do not end up on a plate yourself

[S2000 Driver]

Originally Posted by timebroker

Carpincho? Biggest rodents in the world, live in rivers, size of a medium/big sized dog hunted for their leather...

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by S2000 Driver

That's the one

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by timebroker

That's the one

I wonder how they taste

[S2000 Driver]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I wonder how they taste

Frans,

Like kip.

As an entree, they're excellent with Peanut Sauce, followed by a Stroopwafel and Coffee for desert!

[JJ Irani]

Hi guys,

I've not posted yet on this thread, but it appears that some of the posts have hurt a certain member's feelings real bad. I think it best we keep personal comments about one's country and origin out of this one.

I know for a fact that one member is so pissed off, he may not post here any longer....and he happens to be a damn good buddy of mine!!

Can we put an end to this thread please?

Thanks - JJ

[Arby]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I wonder how they taste

Like Chicken?

[timebroker]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I wonder how they taste

Better than chinchulinos (the exit from the cow lol) I hope, they really eat everything here.
One time somebody suggested something at a restaurant, asked what it really was when eating it, turned out to be cow glands yuk.
Will try carpincho when I get to areas where they serve it although the thought of eating 'rat' ...

Originally Posted by S2000 Driver

Frans,

Like kip.

As an entree, they're excellent with Peanut Sauce, followed by a Stroopwafel and Coffee for desert!

Where are you from? You sure know the dutch cuisine.
Every time I left for Argentina had to bring a suitcase full of these things for a dutch friend, especially peanut sauce.