Our Man in Antigua

el Muro…establishing themselves as ‘the bar/hot spot’ in Antigua…free drinks and they pay you to swill…go figure…are they crazy? nope…the best of publicity…

I ‘kissed the cobble stones’ coming home…if you see abrasions..no, not ‘stigmata’…too much fun at El Muro…Alex B of Fusion, talking of changes..menu and other stuff…no can tell…wait for the event..the indian restaurant that was in Casa Fuente…now next door in the Persian rug store..makes some kinda sense, ethnically speaking..Luis of DV, playing and adjusting the lighting..a few bugs to work out…Lex C and Travel Agent Alice seen on the streets tonight…the Swedish pastry, Camilla…hacked/tapped by BAC…bastards..a very sweet lady, hacked and cyberraped by Colombianos via mexico…$$$…will this ever end?

what do you call four latinos in quicksand? cuatro cinco…er, sinko…ok, sicko..it’s that kind of day/week…Rio Dulce/Livingston? Rio was fine, til the torrential downpours hit on Monday/Tuesday…3am Tuesday, awakened by wind/rain blowing horizontally in the room, thru the windows and ten feet into the room…oops..wet from then til 4pm and home…5 hours in the rain without working windshield wipers…a helluva road trip/shakedown cruise for the new/old AL van…Livingston? the usual sweltering hellhole…Jonestown without the Kool-Aid…ok…fine…i’ve awakened a side of me long forgotten…aided/abetted by a couple of stays at El Castor Salado, aka the Beaver…’lived long ago in Hawaii and in/around a few other beach paradises…’thinking of a short move/stay in/around Monterico…month, +/-…if you or anyone you know who’d like to trade houses…shorts/sandals and not much else is appealing to me right now..tonight? gotta go to El Muro’s opening Thursday night ‘all you can swill’ for free montha May celebrations…as always, i’m amazed by the lack of advertising other than on FaceHole…tis preaching to the choir by a lot of bars/restaurants in town…after a week of no FB, it occurs to me that some are missing a link in their promotional efforts..yes, i have ideas…some half-baked, some inane but none insane..news of a new BBQ restaurant coming in a few months…nope, can’t talk about it per the owner…not yet, but…a superb location..congrats to Carla B for the Review article on Semuc Champey…yep, i gotta go…sometime..Xela next week, followed by Lake Atitlan..more later…’had to dry out the samsonite suitcase from all the moisture…soggy days and soggy nights…almost Freddy Fender.. one of the positive…well, one of the side effects of having ‘done’ Viet Nam is that you get used to being wet/damp all the time….hey, what’s a little jungle rot amongst friends? on other fronts, the Borders Without Bandits went mildly viral…if you haven’t read it, google it…Forbes to the India Times…the IT also ran the old Hotel Del Rey a while back..not PG, by the way…any new ripoffs via the BAC ATM’s? love to know if so..and what happened to the Wednesday gallery things at Panza Verde? is Gabi still running it?