Way off topic but my wife and I went on a cruise ship, stop ped in Venezuela. $100 per person to go on a Bus to Caracas. Visit a mall, a church, a market and back. We are not so rich, we go to the gas station in town and see they have a bus. I get $20 US changed to ?Bolivars?, and we take the bus. We go to a subway, and it's amazing. We pay for that. We go to the market. WE see people from the cruise there. I get $100 US at the American Express store. OK. We go out and visit the market. Cool. We have lunch and 4 beers, (3 for me). We see the church and the cruise ship people are there. We go in and look. It starts to rain. We take with the other couple a taxi back 20 miles to the cruise ship. I still have cash so we buy 3 drinks each, and I buy 6 beers, I still have about $1 Us left. So we spend less than $20 US for the day, see the same places, eat, drink, take back beer for less than $20 US. We still laugh about that.

My daughter's best friend is from Caracas. The 15th birthday party was crazy!

John Conley
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