Gypsy & DG's Visit To Babylon

[Gypsy Nirvana]

....I am definately not yer average lookin' fella......but I reckoned that since I was not wearing a turban and sporting a full beard....I was not exactly public enemy number one.....and I passed without let or hindrance into the United States......

...Ahh....then we had to walk for quite a while in a daze dragging our luggage on wheels thru endless expanses of airport territory......hopping on moving walkways and escalators to eventually arrive at the place where the bus for the car rental company could pick us up and take us to the awaiting XJ8.........and D.G. was driving!

...She drove the motor well......on board was a sat/nav system that you could just dial your destination into and the car would just guide you there..........so I dialed into the keyboard 'Boca Raton'......and it pointed us in the right direction....giving us voice commands before various junctions and setting us onto I-95 North to Boca.....It was hot amd humid outside.....but in the air-conditioned cabin of the big Jag it was just 17 degrees celcius........and we chilled to the FM-105.9 classic rock station....pumping out the music....

 

[zeppelindood]

rock n roll ~

rock n roll ~

they do love led zeppelin there ~

 

[Guest]

More more more. This is great, can't wait to hear more.

Hope you enjoyed your stay...

 

[Guest]

Beautiful views you captured.. Looks like a really nice resort.... So glad you guys got to make your trip!!

 

[Dutchgrown]

Gypsy was intent on me using the sat/nav.....LOL....lived 25 years (up until 5 years ago) in Ft. Lauderdale area, so I kinda knew my way around Was alot of fun driving the big jag around and playing tour guide to Gypsy I only had him trying to use the extra foot brake on 'his' side of the car a few times LOL

dg

 

[Dutchgrown]

YES!!!!!! Taco Bell! Taco Bell! Taco Bell!

YES!!!!!! Taco Bell! Taco Bell! Taco Bell!

Being away from the states awhile, I had grown VERY hungry for some Taco Bell fast food LOL So as I drove Gypsy toward Miami for an outing on Key Biscayne, couldn't keep the car from pulling in here..... viva Taco Bell......we had tacos, burritos, ummmm!

dg

 

[cough_cough_eer]

It would be hard to pass by a taco bell without stoping.The one that used to be by my work would let me in at 9.30 for breakfast, they didn't evev open till 10:00.

 

[zeppelindood]

U2

U2

hahahaha
good show dutchy ~

 

[Milkdog]

Ah man what timing. This is rich. I just hoped over the pond also. But from Rotterdam,you know how we do.Lived in NYC area for 28 yrs, been Rotterdam 3 also dutch! Unfortunatly I am in the NYC area and not as nice weather as you guys having. But all in all very nice. Had some ridiculous Bubblegum today from here,superb. Posted a smoke report on it. Guess what it was from Nirvana standard. LOL Well know gonna try and make this thing fun; hope your trip goes well also. P.S. Any job openings at Nirvana. LOL .....if your ever in a pinch. Milk......


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[cooked cook]

glad you two are home safe

glad you two are home safe

Hey DG and Gypsy.

I'm glad you two had a good trip, and what seems like a nice relaxing stay in FLA. (and what's with Boca Raton Florida?
RAT'S MOUTH?!?!? Doesn't sound all THAT nice )
But I'm REALLY glad you got through customs and back home safely without the little man at the customs desk saying "Hey, wait a minute... that dude with the shiny top there looks JUST like the dude with the shiny top in this photo here. Sir, would you place your hands against the wall." EEK.
So is this the next installment of "on the road with Gypsy Nirvana(and DG)"? I can see it now... instead of seeing hash being made in Morocco, it's "here we are at a weed house in Miami.... dub sacks of midgrade are sold as fast as the workers can package them"
Peace.

cook

 

[Guest]

Re: glad you two are home safe

Re: glad you two are home safe

I can see it now... instead of seeing hash being made in Morocco, it's "here we are at a weed house in Miami.... dub sacks of midgrade are sold as fast as the workers can package them"

LMAO!

Great show! Gypsy at Taco Bell... haha. Good shit. Love the Jag, too.

 

[Guest]

Now you know you should have taken Gypsy to " Spanky's Cheesesteaks " on oakland park blvd in Ft. Laderdale.

Those are the best cheesesteaks in the world...when in South Florida it's a MUST HAVE ! That is unless your a vegitarian

 

[BushyOldGrower]

Well, what the heck?

Well, what the heck?

You found an XJ8 rental JAG and Gypsy didn' drive?

Whatsamatter mate? Not liking the left hand drive?

Your JAG didn't bother me any... or driving on scarey narrow roads. You ever get to drive dat ting?

Nice pics DG. Boca is a nice place people in the know often visit and Florida is as beautiful as I remember Lugano at the Casa..

You guys didn't take enuf time to visit me but if you had we would have had to ride the horses. Maybe next time eh? BOG

 

[friendlyfriend]

taco taco
Taco flavored kisses to the both of yah! Can't wait to hear how the excursion up north went.....

taco taco taco taco

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Arriving in Style!!

Arriving in Style!!

It had been a while since I had been in these United States......maybe about 4 or 5 years when I had flown out to the Northern California Growers Association's harvest festival in Sonoma......

Florida looked familiar but a little different.......everything seemed to be laid out in regular blocks just like the rest of America that I had seen before with loads of drive in restaurants and shopping malls....small businesses and stop and shop grocery stores, it all look pretty affluent to me......lots of nice cars on the road......plenty of yellow Hummers all over the place and old corvettes........

We programmed in the Boca Resort into the sat-nav system and the lady in the box of tricks had an American voice to tell us where to turn and where to go.....D.G. did'nt seem to need it anyway since she had lived around these parts for many years before.......but it was entertaining all the same...

...The weather was hot and humid outside and luckily for us we were there between two major hurricanes....Charlie and Frances and so did not have to go thru all of those crazy weather shennanigans during our stay....

I was happy to let someone else do the driving since I had left my drivers licence in the U.K. and so it was not really possible anyway.....My Jag was in the shop in England getting fixed after I had hit a kerb sideways a couple of weeks before and knocked one of the back wheels of.......and this Jag was a bit bigger, roomier but just as comfortable and D.G. was loving it!!

Soon we pulled into the fancy looking resort and the valet parkers were all over us welcoming us to the big hotel/resort and giving us all sorts of information which went in one ear and out the other I'm afraid since I only had one thing on my mind and that was a fat spliff of fine weed......and a cold glass of fizzy wine....

...We were checked in swiftly and shown to a lovely large room with a bathroom to die for in it and a nice patio area to sit/dine and entertain in.......Just as we arrived there so did room service with a couple of bottles of Californian champers and some delicious chilled strawberry's dipped in chocolate with tuxedo's on!!!...mmmm..

Just as room service left an old friend of D.G.'s showed up with some fine weed called 'Bob's Haze'.........and some homegrown Dutch Passion White Widow........The guy even brought us a whole weed smokers kit in a little tupperware container comprising of a small pair of manicuring scissors, some hemp smoking rolling papers and even some cardboard tips to roll us and use as filters in the end of the spliffs that we were to roll......

Ahh....very soon we had rolled up a spliff of both kinds and were happily toking away whilst commenting on the taste/bouquet of each variety.......Yes....I could definately taste that hazey taste in the weed that had come from some guy called 'Bob'......and I noted that it was a trippy upstairs sort of buzz even though I felt a little tired and weary after travelling god knows how many thousands of miles to get here from Europe........

That contented look of satisfaction was cast over my face as I praised D.G.'s good buddy for showing up with such fine/cured cannabis for our consumption....and then he passed me the White Widow spliff.....which after 3 good lugs put me into hyperspace.........I wandered out into the evening warmth on the patio and stared out towards the ocean.......it was less that 100 meters away....and I closed the sliding doors to listen to the sound of the waves untill this absolutely terrible lounge singer started braying out an incredibly lacklustre rendition of some forgetable James Taylor song from one of the hotel restaurants......and so I beat a hasty retreat back into the air-con coolness of our little rented piece of Florida beach front for a while longer untill we were all happily satiated.......

D.G.'s buddy did'nt have more than just a small glass of the wine, so soon we all piled into his rice burner of a car to go up to some beach area called Delray where we sat outside facing the Atlantic Ocean and ate hot and spicy chicken wings whilst watching the people go by a little tired.....certainly jet-lagged.....and oh so very stoned!

 

[BushyOldGrower]

Delray Beach

Delray Beach

So DG is your chauffer now? You left your drivers license at home? At least you had a passport man. What if they pulled you over? I mean what could they have done to you anyways. With the balls of iron you have shown just coming to America I see no reason to worry about a traffic cop.

America ain't so bad huh? Good food, good people and good weed. What more does a man need than his champers, his lady chauffer and some good stash on the beach eh?

Good to be on the road with Gypsy again... BOG

 

[Dutchgrown]

What to see next?

What to see next?

There are many wonderful places and sites in South Florida that being able to see them all in a short time frame is virtually impossible. It saddened me that I knew there were many of these places I knew about but that Gypsy would not get to see. Well not on this trip anyway...maybe next time. We would not make it to the Keys (no Islamarada Tiki Bar...nor 7 mile Bridge, or the airboat ride to see the alligators in the Everglades, etc.etc.etc).

Since we were staying very north and to the extreme east of most of these places I decided our longest venture out in this short period would be to head south on I-95

Yes, a high HOV overpass gives the first good view of the Miami skyline

Where to go, hey.....

Think we'll check out Key Biscayne.

dg

 

[Dutchgrown]

Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne

Shortly we would be in the best place I could think of to see Miami and get a feeling for it's beauty ....but without the up close and personal bumper to bumper traffic that usually clogs up the downtown street areas.

Besides, the sky was looking a bit angry up in N Broward/S Palm Beach county area, so I went South, just as I had done so many times before, (but usually via motorcycle...not driving an XJ8), by heading away from the dark clouds and toward the sunny blue ones

dg

 

[zunny]

Ya'll were VERY close to me DAMNIT!

Next time let me know!

 

[BushyOldGrower]

Was that XJ8 fast?

Was that XJ8 fast?

Does it have the 400 hp engine like yours? Should I trade in Mrs. BOG's Japanese Corvette for one? BOG