Recent content by panamabound

I totally agree, I want to give him my business, the wife just wants some more info than is posted on his site. Ideally pictures of them on people, ideally females. I can't necessarily blame her. But yea, he's been more than helpful in the past so he's earned it. Would you mind shooting...

The wife and I are headed out to a stay-cation of sorts with some friends in Puerto Rico and I’m thinking of fulfilling a long ignored yearning to purchase some panama hats for the occasion. Looking for something for a female with a 22 ¼ inch head measurement and a male with a 23 ¾ inch...

And the moral of the story is.... I don't know how to enable PMs here. Any pointers?

Ah, didn't know you had to explicityly enable the PM feature here. dustinwilliamthompson a t gmail.com I will be checking it before I leave but the sooner the better. Thanks jess. D

Hijack away, I'm heading out tomorrow so I probably won't have time to look at the thread again. I'd love to see an answer to that question when I get back though! Thanks again all D

Wow, what a turnout... Ok, so let me try to respond to everyone in turn... 1961MJ, I'm with ya on all those points. Based upon what you, among others, are saying it sounds like I might be better off committing to being happy to find something mediocre at a moderate to good price and calling...

Aureliano, yea, like I said I even noticed your thread before I posted this help request. I was thinking about PMing you sometime soon but I'm glad you popped up here. That's what I was afraid of regarding Quito. It just screams tourist trap (regarding goods I mean, the locale looks pretty...

Hence, me wanting to buy in person rather than by mail order if possible. Keep the advice coming.

dan, Yea I've worked in Yellowstone National Park on 2 separate summer seasons and know that the altitude affects me (I was raised within 30 mins of the beach) so I've gotten a prescription for Diamox and have begun taking Ginko Biloba. It might be snake oil on the latter but it can't hurt...

Thanks for the advice gentlemen, lets see if I can respond in turn. lefty, maybe, but here's the thing since I'm not looking to get a fino monticristi it might be quite possible for me to set a price ceiling and go from there. By that I mean how can I get a bad deal if I luck out and find 3...

fmw, I keep getting that recomendation from almost every resource I've touched on so far. Sadly, it's not in the books. Additional travel costs, total time needed to devote to the islands, and expenditures while we're there make it less appealing than spending $2.00 on a bus ride to a town...

So, I'm lucky enough to be making a trip to Ecuador next week. I'll be down there for 2 weeks visiting a friend who is in the middle of a 2 year Peace Corps deployment. It goes without saying that I'm excited about this trip since it's my first time out of the country (I don't count Puerto...