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Chris "Mack" Pinto

Chris "Mack" Pinto

Meet Christopher ”Mack” Pinto. Editor of TikiLoungeTalk.com.  South Florida’s Swingin’ Tiki and Retro Lifestyle Lounge

 

Conversations include Kool Cars, Tiki Bars & Movie Stars… Just About Anything, With A Retro Twist. Check out Chris’s site, where the drinks are free and the bar is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He refers to his little Tiki Bar on the lanai as “Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar”… and has a sign hanging above it that says Pirate’s Cove that his father made out of a piece of driftwood when he was 8 years old. Chris thinks Pirate Life and Tiki Bars go together like Rum & Coke!

 

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StarDust, Chris's 1953 Chevy Bel Air Wild Custom Hot Rod

He’s a kat who’s into the good stuff from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, spilling into the 20’s and 70’s. He drives a retro-rod PT Cruiser GT Convertible, has been hot-rodding a 53 Chevy Bel Air  for 19 years and enjoying some fine Scotch at his Tiki Bar with his beautiful wife Colleen.

 

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Chris playing Tenor Sax

Chris’s hobbies include living the good life (with as much retro fun stuff as possible) in South Florida, playing jazz sax & clarinet, theater, writing, working on his 53 Chevy hot rod, and looking at pretty women (his wife included). He’s written 12 plays, many of them produced in his theater company back in the 90’s. He is currently finalizing his first real novel, “Behind The Closet Door”, a mystery wrapped in a ghost story. He’s hoping to drum up some interest in it, and maybe get a shot at having it published some day (he knows it’s not easy to do, but he at least has to try.)

 

For some interesting info on Luau’s, MaiTaiTiki Bar Music Exotica, Jazz Music 101, and anything Retro, check out Chris’s site at TikiLoungeTalk.com  We’re sure you’ll find the site and the posts fun and entertaining!

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Sale in The Pirate Store!!

February Special

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Visit The Pirate Store at LivingLikeAPirate.com and pick up your Tiki Bar Shirt for only $12.00

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Time for a drink! Where more appropriate than the newest Tiki Bar that is now under Pirate Management? Show your pirate spirit with this one-of-a-kind specially designed tee.

100% Genuine Living like a Pirate Clothing Heavyweight 6.1 100% Cotton Shoulder to shoulder taping Coverseamed neck Double needle hem

$12.00 for a limited time ~ click here to get yours!

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Travel Head Adventures set sails for Latin America

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Travel Head in Virgin Islands

Rick Malott founder of Travel Head Adventures invites anyone who seeks fun and adventure off the beaten path, to join in.

 

Travel Head offers small group adventures that will take you off the beaten path to experience the real spirit of the destination. Our trips focus is the perfect mix of relaxation, fun and adventure. Our approach to travel provides the benefits of independent travel with the value of a structured itinerary and the companionship of fellow travelers.Travel Head in Puerto Vallarta

If you are someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking and enthusiasm for travel, a “fan of travel”, then check us out at http://travelheadclub.com and join us on our next club trip and help create experiences that you and your traveling companions will remember for a life time.

Travel Head in Costa RicaRicks next trip is set for April 2010, for Latin America – Costa Rica – Pacific Beaches, as it will be hardcore relaxing on the beach of Montezuma.

June 2010, Rick and his elite group of Adventures will embark and set sail for the Caribbean, in search of the “Barefoot Island”.

If you would like to receive information, specials and announcements to your email please sign up for our newsletter: Travel Headlines via our web site http://travelheadclub.com

You can also follow us on your favorite social network sites at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Travel-Head-Club/253370929661 and http://twitter.com/thetravelhead

Travel Head in Virgin Islands

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The 3rd Annual FloriDaze Beach Music Festival

May 7th thru 9th 2010

FloriDaze is back!!!

We are Proud to Be a Sponsor For This Incredible Event!!!

The Third Annual FloriDaze Beach Music Festival is underway! This event WILL fill up quickly as in years past and when you see the lineup of entertainment you will see why!

FloriDaze continues to take the TropRock world by storm! Last year we blew everyone away with a phenomenal weekend and we are going to do it all over again!!!

FloriDaze 2010

 

Got a boat? Sail it over and dock it at the marina! Like to jet ski? We’ve got you covered! Do you enjoy fishing, sailing, tennis, golf, sunsets on the beach, gourmet food and living in the lap of luxury? Well our host resort has it all..and then some!!! Check out our resort page for more!!!

http://www.floridaze.org/resort.php

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Adventures of a Gypsy Pirate Wench!

 

Adventures of a Gypsy Pirate Wench!

Meet Jolea!

Meet Jolea!

 

Meet Jolea.

A 26 year old chick, L-I-V-I-N, and working on the water most of the time. She lived in Key West Florida for a few years where she learned to sail on the Schooner Liberty, which she loved. Eventually she started working on a 65 foot Catamaran which took tourists out snorkeling to the reef. she found both types of sailing enjoyable but the hurricane season of 2005 sent her packing home to Dallas Texas. After being back in the real world for a year she ran back to the sea! She has crewed on many boats from the Virgin Islands to Australia, and is sure there will be more to come! She hopes to keep track of her life and other journeys to come! Feel free to check out her blog,  and adventures, write a comment or give advice for sure!!! She would love to hear from you!

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Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary

New Book Details Couple’s Life-Changing, Yearlong Mexico Sailing Adventure

Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary

Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary

VICTORVILLE, Calif. – The idea might run through many a mind, but, most often, it is but a fleeting notion: Putting your career on hold, selling off your worldly possessions and sailing away into the sunset, away from the stress and conventionalism of everyday life.

 

But for Carrie Caldwell Bershee and her husband, Bryan, the idea was much more than a daydream. In her new book,  Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary: Cruising Stories and Advice From A Mexico Sailing Adventure (published by AuthorHouse), Carrie shares the tale of how she and Bryan, along with their canine companions, left the “work-a-day” world for a year of cruising Baja Mexico on their sailboat, the Salty Dog.

 

Heartfelt and funny, Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary provides the details of Carrie and Bryan’s amazing journey, from their time in preparation in Southern California to their adventures in the remote anchorages and fishing villages of the Baja and popular spots like Turtle Bay and Magdalena Bay. Carrie writes of the friends they made, the mishaps they experienced and the tremendous perspective that they gained about what is truly important to them. The book also includes provisioning tips and cruiser-friendly recipes, along with invaluable insider advice on health, safety and local etiquette.

 

When Carrie and Bryan were in the process of planning their adventure, they discovered that there were very few books that truly described what a year of cruising Mexico was like.

 

“There are many guide books on the market containing maps and coordinates,” says Carrie, “but nothing that could really give a potential cruiser an idea of what they could expect if they were to make the journey themselves.”

 

The Bershees hope that Trading Ordinary … For Extraordinary will help other cruisers considering a similar journey by providing the very type of information they were looking for before they set sail, but could not find. They also hope to serve as a source of inspiration for potential cruisers who dream of setting sail one day, showing them that the dream is well within their reach.

 

After a year of living aboard the Salty Dog, Bryan and Carrie have returned to California and are back working the public school system – Bryan teaching P.E. and outdoor education and Carrie as a school counselor working with junior high and high school students. They enjoy sailing the Salty Dog in her home waters and hope to set sail again someday on another lengthy and eye-opening journey. For more information, visit www.saltydogadventures.com or www.53068.authorworld.com.

 

AuthorHouse is the premier publishing house for emerging authors and new voices in literature. For a complimentary copy of this book for review, members of the media can contact the AuthorHouse Promotional Services Department by calling 888-728-8467 or emailing pressreleases@authorhouse.com. (When requesting a review copy, please provide a street address.)

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Embarking on the Treasure Hunt to be Inked in all 50 States

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            Living like a pirate for me is searching down places to get good tattoos.  My adventures to this point have not yet taken me far but I have a long way to go.  I have embarked on the Treasure Hunt to be inked in all 50 states, then I will move on to bigger projects like other countries.  However, for now there are only a few and I have attached them for all to see.  I would love to hear from anyone that has ideas for places I haven’t covered yet.

 

Cubbie TatThe one labeled CubbieTat is from Chicago.  This is part of an ongoing work to make a sleeve attributed to Jimmy Buffett

 

 

 

BoatTat is just a simple piece of ink that I wanted to get because it was my birthday, done in Baltimore, MarylandBoat Tat

 

 

LAtitudeTat is more of the ongoing sleeve to Jimmy done right here in Baltimore.LAtitude Tatoo

 

 

 

EarthTat is another simple flash art piece done in San Francisco in the Height Ashbury districtEarth Tatoo

 

 

 

 

The one labeled P7060071 includes a piece done in San Antonio TexasP7060071

 

 

And last but not least RavenTat is one I got done in Seattle Washington.  It is a piece called Raven Steals the Sun or Raven Stealing the SunRaven Tatoo

 

 

 

I couldn’t think of any other way of Living Like a Pirate then documenting my travels in a unique way.

 

James

a.k.a.

Revy

 

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.”

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From Andrew of geocaching team SA_ParrotHead in South Australia.,

Hi Dave,
from Andrew of geocaching team SA_ParrotHead in South Australia.
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A bit about Andrew.
Back in the 1970’s as a teenager I was working here in South Australia assisting with building transportable homes to send up to Darwin in the Northern Territory. The city had been devastated by Cyclone Tracey on Christmas eve, 1974. On the building site there was a group of travelling carpenters from America who introduced me to the music of Jimmy Buffett. I have been a fan ever since. I married Deborah when I was 19 and our grandchildren think granddad is a pirate. I certainly believe I have a schoolboy heart and I am growing old but not up. So when we discovered geocaching in 2004 our team name just had to reflect the music that had been with us nearly all our life. A love of travel and hunting down treasure was too strong a lure for me not to become immersed in geocaching. I am heading toward 5000 finds which puts me in the top 20 finders in Australia. The more you hunt for treasure, the more you open yourself up to the world and get to embrace it and the people who live on it. I went looking for a cache and found a way of life. I have met people from all over the world and seen some incredible places in my journey. Sat under the stars in the Simpson desert, climbed Ayres rock, cruised the East Alligator river in Kakadu national park just skims the surface of where my hunt has taken me. The group Jethro Tull has a song called Rover which I love – The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies at the end, so slip the chain and I am off again, you will find me everywhere because I am a rover.
I think I will do your product proud. 
Cheers,
Andrew 
 Andrews Pirate Crew at work

 

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We all need to help!

TM001-LogoThis morning LLAP made a $500 contribution to the Haitian relief fund in honor of all our crewmembers & will donate 10% of all sales thu March. 2010. We encourage everyone to look in their hearts & donate to help.

www.redcross.org

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  1. Jolea says:

    Nice work. So generous of you!

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Sheryl shares what Living like a Pirate means to her

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Pirate Wench Sheryl

“LLAP is about adventure, free-spiritedness, living life to the fullest, going for the dream and making that dream a reality. It’s about being laid back and soaking in the richness of what life has to offer. It’s the hunt for the treasure and the discoveries during the journey of the hunt.

I don’t know about you, but LLAP is not about conforming to a mainstream lifestyle. That’s boring and predictable. I define my own path. Don’t get me wrong; Pirates doesn’t break laws. So don’t you! That’s not cool. It’s about carving out your place, who you are and living according to that credo.

 Our mission? It’s simple really. To be real, true to oneself and be fearless. To follow the dream, define the treasure and engage in the hunt. You’ll be amazed at what is discovered along the way… LLAP is also about banding fellow adventurers, who ‘get it’. Who understand and seek the LLAP philosophy.”

 So…. what’s your treasure?

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