Today Stu had to fire our driver/guide. He kept pressuring us to go do things we really just didn’t want to do or go see, and was trying to lock us into making solid schedules and commitments to go places. F@#K that! I’m on holiday. I eat when I’m hungry and I sleep when I’m tired. Time has no relevance.
Stu and I were already paying him a good fee and he really didn’t have to do that much besides get us to the good surf breaks. He obviously was trying to make extra commission by taking us to all these different tourist traps and his hustling was getting more annoying by the minute. Not to mention he was blowing up Stu’s phone like a psycho ex girl friend or something. hahaha.
Little did we know that later in night after surfing, we went to a local rooftop bar for a drink or two, and would end up meeting our new guide for the rest of the trip.
Ms. Rien is a salsa instructor primarily, and is hired by many of the local restaurants and bars to teach salsa lessons. She is quite the firecracker with and awesome attitude and personality. I can tell already that this trip is about to shift gears to a whole new level…
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