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Ann - AnninNYC
 New York NYFemale
Joined On: 3/26/2009
Last Login: 9/04/2017
Experience: Proficient
Habits: Only drink
Relationship: Divorced
Children At Home: No
Company: None
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I go diving once or twice a year. Locations include: Sipidan/Kapalai/Mabul, Wakatobi, Turneffe Island (Belize), Little Cayman, Key West, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, St. John, Grand Turk, Cozumel. I took the Arenui live aboard to Alors (near Komodo). Palau, Honduras, Cenotes in Mexico.
I live and work in Manhattan.
In 2015, I went to Palau, which I loved beyond all measure. I wasn’t crazy about the hotel, which was gorgeous, but administratively a hot mess. But the dive shop was awesome, and the diving was just spectacular. Even the surface intervals were a piece of paradise. It might be my favorite location to date.
In 2016, I went to Isla Mujeres, where the diving is meh, but the whale sharks were migrating. And then I took a day trip to the cenotes. That was astonishing. Then I headed for Dunbar Rock in Honduras. Excellent diving. The resort is amazing, but the food was almost inedible. And I’m not that fussy when I’m diving. That resort is insane. I felt a little politically isolated. I traveled solo and am quite progressive politically. I was verballly assaulted by some of the divers merely for being a Democrat. I thought of myself as a moderate until that trip. I got radicalized for the left by the extremely loud, angry voices on the right at the time I traveled there. You don’t see that kind of anger except in the USA. I travel all over the world, and this is a uniquely American pass time. (Yelling at the dinner table AT other people.) SMH.
I’m heading back to Little Cayman after Christmas, with my own lefty entourage. :-)