aahh the surf at san juan del sur
there are more pool halls here in san juan del sur than I have seen anywhere so far. The life of laying on the beach, drinking a few beers and shooting a good game seems to abound in this place. Of course, that´s not what we did today but lots of other gringos seem to. We relaxed in our cozy little room, strolled the town and took photos, of course.
I like to play " guess my nationality" and so far French is first and German second. Nobody says USA. My French is pretty rusty so it must be the fact that I'm not talking alot or smoozing the locals that creates the mistaken identity. The German is just obvious, I suppose. Dad would be proud.
This is politically a hotbed area with flags of red and black flying here. Its been a strain on the Social Studies part of my brain to remember back to the '80's when Reagan was king and the Sandinistas and Contras were at each other. I believe the remnants of those days appear in the red or black flags flying today. Since Daniel Ortega is back in power it seems like time is frozen. The english papers here say he traveled to Iran recently to see if he can form an alliance with the whack job president there (we haven't cornered the market just yet) and that's just a bad omen. What we don't get via the "news" in the states is pretty frightening considering how we are mongering everywhere.
Global warming is here as well as Nicas complain its hotter than they are used to. An entire fresh water lake outside of Santiago, Chile just up and disappeared 2 months ago leaving scientists and anyone with a brain scared witless. But the hopeful news is that it seems that population growth and the consequences have happened before and mother earth heals herself. Evidenced by theories of how civilizations such as Copan may have met their fate. Now if she could just shake off this serious case of fleas before we kill the dog completely.
The people are friendly but not obsequious and its amazing the lack of street beggars or children that come up to solicit. It's just not here as it is in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru , Ecudaor or Europe for that matter. There is amazingly enough a Subway franchise nestled in this remote place. Gotta be a gringo involved, who else has that kind of $$ around here.
If you are not a seafood person then you would absolutely go hungry here except for Subway, of course. There is always a brick oven pizza place as well. This one is not as good as the one we found in Granada but it was ok. How does 5$ for a lobster sound? or dozens of shrimp for 1$. My understanding is that these prices will soar as soon as we cross the border into Costa Rica. Free enterprise. We will stay here till we can find a route to the only land border crossing between Nica and Costa Rica. Not as easy as it sounds (read previous entries on our "directivo" trip to Copan) but if you have to collect your wits somewhere this ain't a bad place to do it. I'm still figuring a way to describe the border crossing process itself and I´m sure the words will find their way somehow. They usually do...
I like to play " guess my nationality" and so far French is first and German second. Nobody says USA. My French is pretty rusty so it must be the fact that I'm not talking alot or smoozing the locals that creates the mistaken identity. The German is just obvious, I suppose. Dad would be proud.
This is politically a hotbed area with flags of red and black flying here. Its been a strain on the Social Studies part of my brain to remember back to the '80's when Reagan was king and the Sandinistas and Contras were at each other. I believe the remnants of those days appear in the red or black flags flying today. Since Daniel Ortega is back in power it seems like time is frozen. The english papers here say he traveled to Iran recently to see if he can form an alliance with the whack job president there (we haven't cornered the market just yet) and that's just a bad omen. What we don't get via the "news" in the states is pretty frightening considering how we are mongering everywhere.
Global warming is here as well as Nicas complain its hotter than they are used to. An entire fresh water lake outside of Santiago, Chile just up and disappeared 2 months ago leaving scientists and anyone with a brain scared witless. But the hopeful news is that it seems that population growth and the consequences have happened before and mother earth heals herself. Evidenced by theories of how civilizations such as Copan may have met their fate. Now if she could just shake off this serious case of fleas before we kill the dog completely.
The people are friendly but not obsequious and its amazing the lack of street beggars or children that come up to solicit. It's just not here as it is in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru , Ecudaor or Europe for that matter. There is amazingly enough a Subway franchise nestled in this remote place. Gotta be a gringo involved, who else has that kind of $$ around here.
If you are not a seafood person then you would absolutely go hungry here except for Subway, of course. There is always a brick oven pizza place as well. This one is not as good as the one we found in Granada but it was ok. How does 5$ for a lobster sound? or dozens of shrimp for 1$. My understanding is that these prices will soar as soon as we cross the border into Costa Rica. Free enterprise. We will stay here till we can find a route to the only land border crossing between Nica and Costa Rica. Not as easy as it sounds (read previous entries on our "directivo" trip to Copan) but if you have to collect your wits somewhere this ain't a bad place to do it. I'm still figuring a way to describe the border crossing process itself and I´m sure the words will find their way somehow. They usually do...
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