an old John Lennon line…’Strange Days’, as I recall…or maybe it was ‘most peculiar…..’ whatever,since that describes the day and the night. If one (or maybe even two)remembers a post about an autographed baseball, signed by Fidel Castro a while back, i was reminiscing about travels with my old(literally)partner in sin, crime and indiscriminent behavior, Jerry Tomlinson of Mill Valley (norcal)…per JT, there’s an autographed bible for sale on Ebay…million+ buckeroos and signed by Jesus hisself…right…blue marker pen…little hearts over the i’es…
a very quiet night in town….not a lot of eateries doing any kind of biz….walked by Da Vinci for a word with LM and an eyeful of the delightful Claudia and coming up the street? Max of El Muro with the whole fam damily…wife, kids(a birthday dinner)Mom and Dad…filled up the VW bus, they did…DV will be very very happy tonight…the luscious Flor closing up Dasha at 7pm..got stopped by a recently robbed Tico tonight, bemoaning his fate of being robbed at knifepoint at the bus station here…’offered an Ipod for $30, just to get back to the Honduras border..if I’d had the $30 on me…well, probably…alas..sent him to el Caz…4th calle exceedingly deadzo..bars el same-o, even on 5ta norte, usually Ground Zero for ‘action’..ah…this is strange…two PNC cops on a moto pass me on 5ta, headed north…they stop and take up positions on the sidewalk across from Los Arcos…i nodded to the first and he replies…’hola, Michael’…we talk for a bit and i depart, headed for the man-cave…thinking…how the hell does he…etc..it was a friendly exchange and i s’pose I should be glad, if not flattered…if nothing else,it shows ‘an increased presence’ of cops on the street, one of the things that came out of last weeks multi-meetings with Da Mayor, INGUAT and the cops..’works for me…Peter the Hodge, who was with me at the first one, mentioned that one of the PNC had been taking videos of the attendees with his cell phone…o boy..and lastly another WTF?, only in Antigua..my brand of cigarettes, the ones that I quit smoking for a week or so…Pall Mall menthols, made in Honduras…you can’t buy ’em in Honduras and now…the last pack in town, for at least a week, from the only store thats had ’em for a month…WTF? is Honduras or God trying to tell me something? take your Payasos/Rubios and shove ’em…
Our Man in Antigua 
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