We have been the (family) owners of Roberto’s Bungalows for the past 6 years. Each year we talk about going to the La Patrona Polo Club and never have gone. Well we finally decided to go, because one of our guests mentioned that he was going with all the folks staying at the Bungalows. What a shame it took so long to get there, as we went one Saturday eve. This was one of the best experiences we have had in San Pancho. There is an excellent restaurant and tables right at field level. The excitement of the evening was overwhelming. Great food, great polo matches, great sunset, great fun. We are located just about 35 minutes from Puerto Vallarta and the trip from the big city into paradise is worth it’s weight in gold.  We highly reccomend if you are coming to San Pancho stay at Roberto’s Bungalows (rated number one in San Pancho) and go to a polo match.

Oh what a night!

 

Polo Players

 Polo players use a mallet made of bamboo, which is also called “stick”. The mallet’s head is made of rosewood and is beveled on one end to allow for a full swing at ground level. The mallet varies in length between 49 and 54 inches and it is very flexible. The ball is made of plastic, measuring 3 ¼ inches in diameter and weighing approximately 3.5 oz.  Originally, the ball used to be made of bamboo root, but for the sake of consistency, the choice of material changed to plastic. All players use English saddles, as opposed to western saddles.

The field
A full-size polo field measures 300 by 160 yards. Such ample space is necessary for eight horses to have enough room to gallop, stop and turn. Depending on a player’s ability, the ball can travel up to 150 yards.

 

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A day of great Whale watching

At Roberto’s Bungalows the guests are always looking for some adventure to do. Here in San Pancho we have many things to do. We have the polo club, surfing, fishing, bird watching trips, golf on a beautiful course, soccer games and the list goes on. Some guests last week went whale watching in los ayala. When they came back they said it was one of the best things they ever did.

 Got me to thinking……Hey how about us? Los Ayalais just within 20 minutes from San Pancho Village. Jane, Earl, Billie Ball (really her name no connection to the movie) who I called Bobby all day by mistake and had fun with it all day…and Drew and Sheri Hunt. (Billie if you read this ….sorry about the Bobby, but I just want to say….You and I were born from the same egg…..Love you very much)…We jumped in the car and headed up to see the whales put on by Lopez tours. Fernando Lopez is a real fun and happy man who makes what ever you do a blast. We got there around 10 in the morning and within a half hour we were basking in the sun with the whales…..they were everywhere and beautiful. The warm sun was beating down on us and life couldn’t have been any better. Our friend Drew was taking pictures and OMG I was so happy he brought his camera. Jane and I had our iphones and a little point and shoot, but Drew brought out the real deal. Drew dropped by yesterday to show me a slide show of the day and it was like we were back in the boat. Come enjoy the wonders of the world in San Pancho, Mexico and villages surounding us. We are looking forward to meeting you and becoming family.

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Throw Away the Crutches

Let’s address the Hip thing…Got new crutches to go to Mexico with me for my first hip operation and used them quite a bit, but I’m still feeling too much pain to think about it!  Flew into Puerto Vallarta on my San Pancho vacation…yea I know…. I do go on a lot of vacations….My brother in-law Steve set it up without us knowing anything about where we were going……Just told us we were going to have a great time in a real nice place…I had dreams of room service, swim up bars (for my Pepsi) big flat screen TV, and a real nice rent-a-car……NOPE….We ended up in a town with dirt streets and ladies cooking chickens on make-shift grills at the corners.  No room service…no fancy restaurants…no fancy rent-a-car…we had to rent a jeep, why….I’ll tell you why….because the road to the place we rented was up a hill of river rocks…and there was no other way to get up there. It was completely impossible to get there on crutches. The first night we stayed there was a spider in our room the size of a small dog and he was walking all over the walls and believe it or not a crab…not a little crab…a big crab… and we were about a half mile from the water….I still can’t figure that one out. I scooted the crab out of my room with a broom, because I didn’t want to kill it… Jane’s mom and dad were staying downstairs from us and in the morning they told us that there was a crab in their room last night and they smashed it!! I just laughed knowing I swept the crab into their direction. I killed the spider that was in our room that night and the next day I told someone in town and they said it was a scorpion eating spider and they are harmless (Huge but harmless) made me feel a little insecure about what might be lurking around my room the next night and made it almost impossible to get to sleep. The next day I thought I needed a break away from my crutches…So I rented a surf board…crutched out to the water dropped the crutches and got out in the surf….80 degree water and life was all it could be for about 15 minutes and then I caught a wave….jumped up to my knees and my hip and leg felt like they had been ripped off my body…the most intense pain you could imagine….I just cried and stayed put on my knees until I hit the sand and the board came to a screeching halt….then I rolled and fell over and crawled on my knees to my crutches and left the surfing for the younger crowd. Left Mexico and guess what I got to bring back over the border? Montezuma’s Revenge…yes as bad as it could get

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10 Billion Pesos……

It’s been an interesting month so far and it’s not over yet. Tax time is always a wonderful time of the year for us all and this one has been a bit challenging for me and my accountants.  I handed all my paperwork in and I thought everything was going along just fine when I got a call that the numbers seemed a bit over the top.  This year I had to include the money I was spending in Mexico. The numbers are over the top, but you are looking at Pesos not American dollars.  When you are looking at $16,500 Pesos it may look like you are in the money, but it’s really $1,500 dollars. So needless to say it looked like I had about 2 to 3 million dollars to write off…..NOT! I couldn’t figure out why they were having such a hard time, but I helped them figure it out.  I think I told you that I bought a home down in Mexico and I had gotten the loan from a Mexican bank with GE as the lender.  Well here we are with the communication breakdown once again.  I really need to learn Spanish and so do we all if we are going to keep up with living in both Countries.  I send an e-mail down to Mexico asking the bank to send me my statements from Sept. to April for my loan payments.  They can’t find them and it takes a few weeks to get me in touch with the right person who might help me.  Well they could help me, but when I phone them I ask for someone who speaks English to help me and they say they don’t have anyone.  What do I do now? I continue to e-mail until I find someone who I can communicate with.  Finally I connect with someone who speaks a little English and I ask him if I can get my statements.  He says yes and he e-mails me some statements and they are twice as much as the money as I was supposed to pay.  My payment is around $950.00 American dollars and they have me paying about 2 times that amount.  So now I’m really freaked out and I start e-mailing every few hours to try to get this taken care of.  I get nowhere fast…no one can help me.  So I go to my bank and get all the statements from my account and guess what…..they have never taken any money from my account.  OK now I am wondering ….who’s account are they taking it from?  I call the guy who speaks just a little English and every time he tells me…Don’t worry Mr. Miller we have everything in complete control….You are up to date on your account and your credit very great.  Now I am really confused and I go back to my bank and to see if we can find anything….I’m thinking maybe someone is trying to make my house default, so they can take it back.  Now I’m really not sleeping very well and starting to get very disturbed.  I call the bank and ask where they are and they tell me in Mexico City and I really don’t want to fly there.  I ask the one person who is helping me…well kind of helping me…and I ask why are they taking out more money than they should and he replies back “I don’t know, but it looks good for your credit” I ask can you show me where is the extra money going and he says he will get back to me. This has been going on now for 3 weeks and yesterday we found where it was coming out of my bank each month just like he said.  The only problem was the amount and the date when it was to be taken out was totally different than what we were told. So I call Mexico and both the bank and I are relieved that the money was coming out… but the amount is way out of line and almost double than I am suppose to be paying.  He said that the extra money is going into an account.  I tell him I don’t want it going into an account and I don’t want them taking any more than my payment. I ask him where can I get a statement of the extra money going into my savings?  He says he is going to try to find it and find out why they are taking out so much. And he assures me one more time……Your credit is looking real good…..I don’t know, but maybe if I knew Spanish things would be different….I don’t think so.

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“A Slice of Paradise” Reviewed July 8, 2011 

 My wife and I pride ourselves on finding towns and places to stay that are a bit off the map– where we can feel less like tourists and more like visitors– somewhere where we can experience a place’s culture and get a sense of what it is like to live there. San Pancho is the perfect example of such a place and Roberto’s Bungalows is THE place to stay when visiting! Does strolling down SAFE, QUIET cobblestone streets filled with with roosters, kids, little dogs, fish taco vendors, fallen mangoes, and real homegrown townspeople sound good to you?, How about laying out on a AMAZING white sand beach with no competition for space and NO HASSLE from annoying vendors? If so San Pancho is the place for you! Does being only two blocks from the beach and a half block from the main “road” in town sound good? how about escaping the late day sun to an incredibly peaceful semi-private courtyard with a refreshing pool (its bigger than it seems in the pictures, has a deep end and everything) lined by tropical flowers and plants? What about having all this for a fraction of what you will pay at a mega resort in PV? Then Roberto’s is the place to stay. Oh, and on top of all that Jane and Earl are the BEST hosts– so warm and welcoming, will help you navigate the town and the environs and will provide you with great stories and conversation if you want as well. It was like a home away from home. Thank you Jane and Earl!!!!! P.S. San Pancho is SAFE SAFE SAFE. my wife and i were a bit hesitant to travel to Mexico given all the bad press but were so happy to find that San Pancho is a sleepy little village and we felt extremely safe there- on the beach, walking around at night, etc. it is small enough that after just a few days you will recognize townspeople and vice-versa. Don’t let the bad press that has nothing to do with this area stop you from visiting San Pancho! Room Tip: We checked out all 5 rooms and they are all great and are fully stocked. Roberto’s is the biggest and most private. •Stayed June 2011, traveled as a couple Come and hang out in San Pancho…..it is really Paradise!

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   Summer in San Pancho, Mexico….Oh my, is it hot!  It’s a different kind of hot…than like let’s say Palm Springs…Not a dry heat…..It’s hot and it’s Humid…How Humid you ask?  About once an hour you put on a new shirt and let the other one dry out.  Your hair is constantly wet and it takes on a whole new look like you just jumped out of the pool. The advantages of being here at that time of the year is you have the beach to yourself. 

    During that time I also got to experience a rain and lightning and thunder storm….as you might not know… our  (Roberto’s Bungalow’s) are located in the Rain Forest… by the beach with lots of tall palms waiting to get struck and burst into flames. Haven’t seen it happen, but it just makes sense.

          One beautiful sunny afternoon, as I was walking on the beach and I looked down the coast and noticed a real dark cloud formation heading my way….FAST…the sky turned really black real fast…I also noticed a change in temperature….real fast…then it started to rain….not your regular rain….lots and lots of rain….you could say buckets of rain….enough rain that in no time at all the streets looked like little rushing rivers….and then in the distance you could hear the thunder….

    NOW.. I have been in thunder storms before…and they were really fun.  You know how you see the lightning and then you count one one thousand, two one thousand…that makes it fun and you also realize how safe you are because each one one thousand is suppose to be one mile away from the Zillion volts of electricity pounding down towards you into the earth.  Well the louder the thunder got the closer the lightening got….at one point the lightning would hit and you couldn’t count even to one.  The whole village would light up like a NFL football stadium in the dark……and then the thunder…and over and over and over. it was so loud that it hurt your ears….and it just kept on coming….at one point I saw the lightning bolts so close I thought they were going to hit me…..and then the thunder right behind it…..at one point they were coming together…the thunder was so loud that I was looking at the other bungalows from the balcony of the main house and I thought the building was going to explode into millions of pieces all over me.  I swear to you….I was scared to death….this storm didn’t just go by in a few minutes like most storms….it stayed with us for about 6 to 7 hours. Scary…scary…scary….It knocked out our electricity for a full day…Now it might sound like I am a whoos, but I am not…..just a little sheltered. 

    The wierdest thing about the storm was the town was still doing business as usual…people were walking in the streets with big smiles on their faces and it seemed like nothing was going on to them…Ladies were walking their kids to school and going to the store like it was a regular day in paradise. It’s weird to me when it’s 90 degrees out and it’s raining like cats and dogs…lightning is hitting and thunder is crashing and nobody notices but me!!!  The elictricity was going out around us and when I went down the street with the storm still in full swing and in my panic mode…..I saw a guy from the electric company up on a metal ladder fixing some wires…..OH MY!   

See you in the pool with my plastic umbrella!

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How I Met Pancho Villa

I walked into a Real Estate office in Sayulita some years ago and asked if my Real Estate license from California would work down here and he asked if I played an instrument? Dazed and confused… I asked what that had to do with me working there. He told me I didn’t need a license, but they were looking for someone to play guitar in their band. If I had ever learned to play a guitar I would have a job in Mexico selling Real Estate.

When you are looking for really prime pieces of real estate along the coast you have to go on scouting missions…..I started asking a lot of the locals in San Pancho to give me tips on what to do to find great properties. I asked a friend of mine to take me out to find some nice waterfront properties up the coast. So one morning my friend  picked me up to go out scouting….We were headed up the coast about 45 miles in a rundown surf van that had no air conditioning and none of the windows rolled down and it was a bit rickety….not to mention dirty inside and really dirty on the outside actually beyond dirty. You could actually see the hot dusty dirt clouds in the van swirling around in the air as the sun would shine through the closed windows. Every now and then the driver would pull over real quick and we would open the sliding door for some fresh hot air. Oh so refreshing…..

  We headed up the coast and we passed quite a few towns…big ones and real small villages…..fortunately for me my friend speaks fluent Spanish which makes things a little less scary. While we are driving he starts to tell me stories about Gringo’s going into villages and never coming out.  He starts telling me really scary stories I really don’t want to hear, but I am all ears. Actually he had me scared to death and I was feeling like maybe I didn’t want to go any further, but we were half way there. He tells me the plan for the day… we are looking for this certain man who is a land scout and has some prime pieces, but we don’t know where he lives, we don’t know what he looks like, but we do have his first name (Pancho). Well the scary village my friend had told us about on the way about the Gringo’s never coming back out of is the village where this scout lives, so we get there and we are suppose to wait for him out on the highway, but he doesn’t show up so we head into the village and start asking for this one guy by his first name and I have to admit I am scared out of my mind, but acting all cool.

At first nobody seems to want to talk to us and when we pull over and ask folks just kind of ignore us. We keep asking and nobody seems to know where, or who this guy is, but one person points and sends us to the edge of the village and we get out of the car and start to yell out his name….(hey Pancho!) the reason we yell is because we don’t know what he looks like or what house he lives in. We park in front of the last house at the very back corner of the village and there is no front door or windows on this house. After a minute of yelling towards the houses a very scary man comes to the door and it looks like he has just been beaten by a gang of people, or trampled by bulls. His eyes are bleeding and all red and swollen and his arm is in a sling and he has cuts that are bleeding all over his body he is limping and he is really dirty and he looks really bad. I think to myself….Oh my God let’s get out of here before it happens to me, but he acknowledges us and waves for us to come up to the open doorway. He turns out to be a really nice guy and proceeds to tell us what had happened to him.. and he tells us that he fell down hauling wood.  I’m thinking sure you did!!!! He tells us he will be helping us find the scout…

We head back out of the village to the highway where we are pulled over waiting again for the scout. Police go by real slow and stare at us, but probably go on by because the look of the van and we look like surf bums. We have a description of the car the scout is suppose to be coming back to town in so we wait and we wait. We see a car coming and my friend gets out and waves him down. He parks behind us and walks up to the van… he pushes open the sliding door of the van and jumps in smiling at me….OH my God this guy has just a few teeth and only one eye…the other one is all white and glazed over and now I’m thinking oh my God….Someone has probably stabbed this guy in the eye and I’m gonna die without anyone knowing I’m out here in this village. He tells us there are maps he wants to show us at his house, so we drive him back to the house where we were and he takes us in and is one of the nicest guys you ever want to meet. I can only assume this by all the smiling and laughing he is doing. Although I can’t understand one word he says…my friend tells me that we are getting along like family.

  It was so hot in the house and I started to feel real sick and dizzy and wanting to throw up and I feel like I am going to die of heat stroke. I smile and point outside and I go out to the van which is hotter than the house and pass out on the floor. I wake up a little while later soaking wet and drooling all over myself. I went back in and excused myself and they all smiled, I had to ask for some water, as they laughed because they didn’t understand a word I said. After a while they are done doing business and it felt like family, so we say good bye…(adios) get back in the van and we end up going home with maybe a couple of new pieces of ocean front property and a bunch of new friends. After I thought about it for awhile…. with all the scary stories my friend was telling me….I think my friend was just trying to scare me so I would behave…  I did!

Pancho Villa Goes G.Q.

     I headed back up the coast from San Pancho the following month. A little update from the last time I told you about the very scary scout dude in the little village. I went out to the village with my buddy again and we were supposed to meet up with the same guy who was the scout for properties. You remember the guy with no teeth and the one eye that was glazed over….very scary…we waited at the entrance of the village again and he pulled up in the same van that he had last time, but this time things had changed. I saw him getting out of the van and almost in slow motion the first thing I saw was a brand new pair of very expensive ostrich cowboy boots step out of the van and some very nice tailored slacks.  When he jumped out I hardly recognized him…He smiled and had a full rack of bright white teeth a real nice cowboy shirt and some designer sun glasses….along with a real nice designer leather patch for his eye. Things are looking up for the scout. He was such a nice guy I was really happy to see the change…Maybe after he sells a few more ocean front properties he will meet us in his helicopter or Hummer.  Life is good here in Mexico and getting better.

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Boy am I dark and I’m starting to look a lot like an iguana…Just got back from San Pancho, Mexico and boy OH boy the humidity swooped in on the last couple of days I was there and it’s kinda like breathing through a straw. The best thing during these times is a high-powered air conditioner and a pool. Let me tell you about the plane ride this trip.  It seems as though no one can find a baby sitter anymore…the plane rides lately have half the plane filled with babies and toddlers maybe cause they ride for free, but man it’s hard to get in a plane and know that for the next 3 to 4 hours it’s going to be a cry and scream fest…not to mention the toddlers kicking the back of your seat for the entire time. The parents let it go as long as the kid is quiet….it gives them some relief……it kind  of feels like a massage chair and all is fine until you try to sleep. Jane asked the folks behind us to try to get the kid not to kick her chair, but we think the parents were deaf, because the kid continued to kick the chair and scream the whole trip and all they did was smile.  Maybe they weren’t their kids….maybe they were taking them down to Mexico to sell them and they were thinking about the big payday. Oh well….next time you fly bring the kids from the whole neighborhood….just call me and tell me where you’re going.  I told you we built some Bungalow’s down in San Francisco Mexico last year and have been  having a blast getting it ready for our friends and family and renters, well during this last trip something happened while I was there getting it ready for the next season of renters.  I drove up to hang out in the pool for a while and noticed a small Toyota pickup parked directly across the street from my front door.  About 10 feet away and the truck had a camper on the back of it and there were 4 or 5 guys standing around it talking. Now this was no ordinary camper…noooooooooo this was a camper with some parts missing to cover the electrical box and it was old and it was dirty and banged up and it looked horrible and they were talking about taking it off the truck and putting it up on palm tree trunks and bricks and sticks and…..OH my God what was happening right in front of my little casa. I asked them if they were going to put it right there and they spoke back to me in Spanish and ignored me.  I went in my house and was freaking out….then I started to get real mad and then I went back out the front door and they were speaking English and I was blown away and there was a friend of mine (I thought)  there helping them get it off the truck and he had some smart remark….like hey… we’re going to get 4 or 5 of these and make a little camp ground out here….Real funny I thought, but I did laugh…only to think of how he would feel if this beautiful camper were in front of his new home. Boy did I have a couple of days of being real angry and thinking of how I could get them back for doing this to me….and then all of a sudden I remembered I was in Mexico not the U.S. and I started to chill….And then after a few days I thought what the heck….who cares…..I came here to relax and I was bringing all my stress to my place of calm.  So after a few days I chilled and it no longer mattered.  This was a good thing for me to go through, because things are different in San Pancho, Mexico and I go there to wind down not up. So when I go back if there are 4 or 5 campers I will buy one and start the first KOA in Mexico which would be KOM….maybe I’m on to something.

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Hanging out at Roberto’s Bungalows in San Pancho, Mexico. Well I got to experience a rain and lightning and thunder storm….as you might not know… our Bungalow’s are located in the Rain Forest… by the beach…I was hanging on the beach one day and I looked down the coast and noticed a real dark cloud formation heading our way….FAST…the sky turned black real fast…I also noticed a change in temperature….real fast…then it started to rain….not your regular rain….lots and lots of rain….you could say buckets of rain….enough rain that in no time at all the streets looked like little rushing rivers….and then in the distance you could hear the thunder….NOW.. I have been in thunder storms before…and they were really fun.  You know how you see the lightning and then you count one one thousand, two one thousand…that makes it fun and you also realize how safe you are because each one one thousand is suppose to be one mile away for the Zillion volts of electricity pounding down into the earth.  Well the louder the thunder got the closer the lightening got….at one point the lightning would hit and you couldn’t count even to one.  The whole village would light up like a Pro football field at night……and then the thunder…it was so loud that it hurt your ears….and it just kept on coming….at one point I saw the lightning bolts so close I thought it was going to hit me…..and then the thunder right behind it…..at one point they were coming together…the thunder was so loud that I was looking at our rentals from the balcony of the main house and I thought the building was going to explode into pieces all over me.  I swear to you….I was scared to death….this storm didn’t just go by in a few minutes like most storms….it stayed with us for about 6 to 7 hours. Scary…scary…scary….It knocked out our electricity for a full day…what was really crazy was the town was still doing business as usual…people were walking around on the streets and it seemed like nothing to them…It’s so weird to me when it’s 90 degrees out and it’s raining like cats and dogs…lightning is hitting and nobody notices but me!!!  Just put on the bathing suit and go about your business. I love this place………See you in the pool with my umbrella!

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Out To Sea in San Pancho Mexico

I was sitting at my desk a few weeks ago and it was raining and raining and raining and it was cold….did I mention cold?  I was really kind of depressed and cold! I was doing a lot of thinking about the major surgery that was about to be performed on my back to my spine.  Tell me if this has ever happened to you …in a conversation you tell someone you are going to have surgery and without concern for you they will think long and hard and sometimes I think they have heard a story from somewhere, but don’t really know what they are talking about, but they start talking about someone who had a similar surgery and either didn’t make it or was totally disfigured or who limps or can’t see or talks with a slur or something horrible……Lately I have heard nothing but horror stories…yup..my fellow man building the confidence I need to go get my surgery.  Well I start to believe some of these stories and I feel like, if I am not going to make it out OK, I better get in one more vacation, so I head down to Mexico.  I had something go wrong with my foot about two weeks before I left, but my doctor was too busy to get me an appointment, so I left for Roberto’s Bungalows in San Pancho, Mexico hurting and limping. One beautiful hot sunny day I was out body surfing and I noticed the waves getting really huge and so I started to swim out further to avoid getting smashed and killed.  When I really took notice of what I was doing I realized, I was way too far out away from shore, so I started swimming towards the beach. The waves were smashing on top of me and making it hard to catch my breath. I found myself doing everything I could just to keep my shorts on and stay alive. I was doing cartwheels and front flips and back flips and eating my share of sand. When I finally got to where I could stand up and catch a breath I felt like maybe I wasn’t going to die. The water was up to my mouth and I was exhausted. I was staring at the beach praying I would get there soon. All the water I was standing in was being sucked out to sea and all of a sudden I looked behind me and a huge wave was about to break, right on me…so I knelt down and pushed off and darted straight up like a bullet…..the wave grabbed me and drove me into the sand like a really sharp pencil.. When my feet hit the sand I thought my foot and leg had shattered and I would never walk again.  It took everything I had to get to shore I was being battered and driven into the sand. When finally got to the shore I just laid there totally exhausted thinking I still might not make it. After I caught my breath and was able to think about what just happened It took me about a half an hour on my knees to go about 50 yards in unbelievable pain. I finally crawled up to some tables where some people were sitting and I asked for some help. I told them what had just happened and asked if someone could drive me home.  For 2 days I had to be carried around. Left San Pancho, Mexico and got back home and went for my Pre-Op for the spine operation and the doc started to test me and looked startled and said what have you been doing? You have about 50 % more movement in your foot and leg.  He asked if it was still numb and I told him it wasn’t numb anymore. I told him about my body surfing accident and we both came to the conclusion that something happened out there in the ocean…like the surf Gods knew I needed fixing and they fixed me…yup they really fixed me…He told me that even if I had done an operation on your spine I am not sure you would be in this good of shape. He told me to come back in six months and see if I still was feeling good. The next day I went to a foot doctor and it looks as though I had ripped some tendons a few weeks prior to the surfing accident and the final slam into the sand finished it off.  I got a cast up to my knee for the next six weeks and I hate it. The first day I got it on I pulled out my back…..the next day I was over a friend’s house and I was pulling my cast around to get seated and I fell off a chair on to the floor….Have you ever fallen and it seems to have changed all the bone structure inside your body…..kinda like the bones are all in a new place and the muscles are finding it hard to help you move….well that’s what happened and I could hardly move for 2 days….That’s not the end of the cast story….about 3 days later I was at work and I was cleaning up a bunch of cardboard around the Art Gallery and putting it in a dumpster….the dumpster was getting full so I jumped in…..I know what you are thinking….what and idiot….doesn’t he have a cast on?  Yup….stupid…  So as I was jumping up and down like a mad man and crushing the cardboard…. the extra weight from the cast made the cardboard easier to crush. I slipped when I landed on one of my jumps and when I did…. I bent back the fingers so far on my left hand so that they touched my wrist. The pain was incredibly intense. I didn’t want to go to the doctor, because I would have felt kinda dumb when they asked how I did it. The next day my fingers were as fat as ballpark hotdogs and my back felt like someone hit me with a truck and my foot in the cast was really hurting…I think I need a vacation…somewhere hot and at a really nice beach where I could go body surfing and just enjoy the sun and the time off….what do you think?

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