no more parades, drums and noise, porfa…no more crowds, closed streets and….traffic. I finally lost it and got outa town on Friday, driving with the imitable HBT…the Cougar was running fine, despite a rusty radiator and the rain kept going until Puerto San Jose. Yes, the usually off limits dive bar yielded (El Taslisman) a surprise and a map…’can’t talk about the ‘surprise’ but the map,after we got the Cougar nearly sunk in a foot deep flooded hidden chuck hole….christ..heart attack time: it’s a friday afternoon in PSJ and we’re stuck/flooded? well, there goes the weekend..
‘not, fortunately…a few prayers and the Cougar got out of the spot. And yes, thanks to a map, we found the ‘Club San Diego(not the Las Vegas, as my faulty memory repeated)and the Club Millenium….next time, another trip, another crew of misfits…nah, not misfits…’adventurers’….
So, off to Monterrico and the most xlnt Hotel Del Fin….room #13 waiting, a bottle of Botran, a glass of ice, coke and all was good…so, who would we run into this time? it’s impossible to go anywhere in this wacked-out country and not run into someone who you know (is it not?)…hello! Travel Agent Alice (40’s)and her boyfriend of six months….anniversary time! he’s just turned 18, btw….ok…the night went on, the….Johnny’s place, of course…Juan of the Del Fin had a grand opening next door for a bar that he’s revived…’Animales Desconocidos’….HBT reportedly was dancing there later…
a parade in town, two paralyzed Canadian travelers in the back of the Cougar(HBT drives, inhales and the beer is always cold but you knew that…they didnt’)back to town, the crowded Calzada and it’s been more insane since then….i blew off going to Sobremesa’s special brunch, the ‘corn-hole event at La Esquina today and my only excuse….with the perfect weather(temporary) at monterrico…, 70’s and so on, i chilled out in the pool and heard great stories from Dan of the Yukon….drilling, mining, wacko shit….ask me about Chevy engines or core drilling in Colombia…
maybe Copia Fiel will step up tomorrow…maybe the sun will rise…fer sure, dude, this holiday is over..
Our Man in Antigua 
Leave a Reply