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thepilferer comments on Warning: violent gun-point robbery in Tingo Maria

yeah, it's obvious after having spent a while in various parts of peru and speaking with people about it, but it's recommended by lonely planet, which generally says that while pickpocketing and scams are common, that violent crime is very rare. granted, that hardly counts as doing a huge amount of research, but if there are other people in a similar situation as my friend and i were when we decided to stop there, that's what we were going by. if we'd read something contrary to lonely planet's advice, that might have influenced our decision, so hence...this.

thepilferer comments on Looking for work - teaching English or somehting else.

re: vicshere's comment: i think he expressed himself just fine. i read the misspelling as a typo and totally understood what he meant. did you have a problem in comprehending what he wrote? seriously? i mean come on.

thepilferer comments on

apparently someone's spending money in these places. locals wanting to feel american/european or americans/europeans who thought they wanted to feel un-american/european so they came to colombia and then realized once they were there they missed home more than they had anticipated...and for some odd reason hard rock cafe is what reminds them of home? neither one would really surprise me. anyways, black sabbath rules.

thepilferer comments on

wow, i'm so sorry to hear this, and frankly, as someone who is currently on the fence about elongating my trip past lima and into ecuador and colombia, this might just tip the scales away from doing so, especially since my friend and i were already robbed at gunpoint and attacked in Tingo Maria, Peru.