SolaceSoul

It’s very important to note that, for the retirement visa, Brazil requires you to provide documentation of retirement and that the minimum $2000 USD (or its equivalent) per month is not sourced from work / employment.

This has to be the most gringoey thing I’ve read all week. Thanks for the laughs!

FYI: There is at least one suite at 202 that is never free on free nights. I believe it is suite 7, and it is considered the comparably nicer suite at Point. So, yes, Junior’s son at the front desk was correct and he was not conning you or playing games with you. A good idea is to make sure that the garoto does not book the room for you. Often, on a busier night (like free cabin night), in the interest of time, they will just request whatever room is available. Or if the garoto does book the room for you, insist that it’s only the free suite that will be accepted no matter what becomes available. I am not aware of any similar rooms at Club 117 that are not free on free cabin nights.

Unlike your newfound equally batshit friend Rioblather, I welcome you to reveal who you think I am — because unlike him, I am 100% confident that this is not me. So go ahead, tell all you think you know, names, photos, everything. WTF is a Beer Garden?

I’m waiting to hear this story. Do tell!

No, but a friend did.

Could very be, who knows? There’s an entire group of (mostly) black American travelers that often comes down to Santo Domingo and does “recreational” drugs. Not my thing, and I’ve somehow managed to avoid drug use for a lifetime without even having a hint of curiosity. I don’t judge people for doing it, but I prefer for anyone to do it far away from me. Drug users tend to congregate with one another, anyway. They tend not to like “squares”. Now, had he accused me of sipping a few too many Cuba Libres or caipirinhas… hell, guilty as charged!

The saunas are definitely the safest place in Rio for hookups. In the past, I had advocated for love motels, but this would no longer be advisable — tourist or otherwise, but especially not tourists. Both of the murdered were caught on closed-caption hotel camera, and they must’ve realized there were cameras beforehand (almost all hotels in Rio use them). But apparently, even this isn’t enough to deter desperation. Wallace de Oliveira in the past was both a sauna garoto and a gogo boy.

Oh, do tell more about what you think you know, Nancy Drew. This ought to be good.

Um, that’s not how it works, Counselor. That’s not how any of it works.

Video of the two checking into the hotel: eca99c25-b271-4bf0-b9d3-802ffd55c08e.mp4 0b473169-5e6e-448e-aa32-de1a3918d4cb.mp4 58cd4e4b-1da4-4922-abd8-c61d8873618d.mp4

Man arrested in Rio suspected of killing European tourist Ilia Kakhaberidze, 31, was found dead in a hotel room in the Lapa neighborhood (image below)  05/31/2023 at 10:15 am | Updated 05/31/2023 at 10:34 am The Military Police of Rio de Janeiro arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of killing a tourist from Georgia, in a hotel in Lapa, in the center of the capital. According to the PM, Wallace de Oliveira was arrested on Tuesday (30), in the act, with the help of witnesses. With the suspect, the police seized documents and cards of the victim. Wallace de Oliveira has nine passages through the police. Ilia Kakhaberidze, 31, was found dead in a hotel room in the Lapa neighborhood. His body was tied up and had signs of violence. According to witnesses, the tourist arrived at the hotel accompanied by the suspect. Four hours later, Wallace left the scene. Employees suspected the attitude, went to the room and found Ilia dead. His body was taken to the Legal Medical Institute (IML) in Rio and the case is being investigated by the Homicide Police Station of the Capital as robbery (robbery followed by death). Ilia Kakhaberidze was a ship engineering officer and worked on board. To CNN , the Honorary Consul of Georgia in São Paulo, Carmen Ruette, informed that the Consulate is aware of what happened to the citizen of the European country and that the Embassy of Georgia in Brasilia is acting in the case. For its part, the Embassy of Georgia in Brazil informed CNN that it is aware of what happened and has already made contact with the victim's relatives. Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was doing what it could to help transport the body to its home country.

Ha! That’s hilarious. I’ve never even smoked a tobacco cigarette in my entire life, much less a hard drug. As for coke, I do like a good and Coke — Cuba Libre. But keep digging! I do admire your tenacity and thirst for knowledge — even if you keep coming up empty.

His inappropriateness and creepiness with posters / clients isn’t just limited to private messages and long, meandering public posts on the board. It has gone far beyond him just being the harmless little socially awkward lonely weirdo on a message board. And he’s done this with several different, completely unrelated posters / clients. Notice he’s attempted to call me every name in the book here (well, by pretending not to be talking about / to me, because allegedly, I’m on “ignore”)… but what he WON’T do is call me a liar, and he won’t call my bluff and respond, “yes, post your claims about my identity here.”

So, since it’s “fake news”, Rioblather aka SirBillyBob aka Bobbalino, you obviously don’t care if I post your identifying government name and photo, along with the inappropriate contacts that you have made offsite with various posters / clients that they have stated to me and others have made them uncomfortable, labeling you as “creepy” and even “mental”? You know, since it’s fake news and not really you… Just say the word. “Yes”, I’ll post. “No”, I won’t. I’m completely unconcerned about any potential defamation claims. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. So, let me worry about my own liability. Yes, or no?