fire flies! flitting around the patio…hey, it doesn’t take much for me to get excited…Sierra Harding’s birthday today…yeah, she worked the evening shift at O’lot but was surrounded by well wishers…even a few gifts here and there…she is, after all, very sweet..as is Tracy and Beverly.. ah, more ATM stuff…’been told that if one uses [...]
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Film at 11
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged BAC, Casbah, ocelot, Reillys on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Banana Rama Republic
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged ocelot, Reillys on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
a long conversation with our local golf pro in Ocelot last night…he lamenting the lack of vision with his employers…to put it in some kind of perspective we live in a country the size of Tennessee but with twice the population…’run by a small group of oligarchs, similar to the Jack Daniels folks, the Coors [...]
Squab-a-Bob
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Angie Angies, Da Vinci, ocelot, Reillys on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
as part of my never ending search for truth, justice and….wait: I’m channeling Superman? anyway, ‘earth to ground’ and after a week of food stalls/fairs/processions in and around La Merced, the sidewalks are greasy and the pigeon population almost non-existent…is there a relationship/clue/causal factor? from this one can gather that ‘torpor’ is the theme here, [...]
Bloody Mary-Ville
Posted in Costa Rica, El Salvador, golf, Guatemala, Honduras, Living in Antigua, Nicaragua, Restaurants, Shopping, tagged drugs, semana santa on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
so…the big ‘decriminalization’ get-together yesterday with the five heads of government of Central America? three…the narco-staters of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador didn’t show up …well, I’m not sure about El Sal but the other two are ‘lay-downs’, which is an old used-car salesman’s word… Nadoosh, the latest attempt to cash in on the failed ‘hookah’ [...]
Nooks and Grannies
Posted in golf, Guatemala, Living in Antigua, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel, central america, guatemala, tagged Da Vinci, drugs, el muro, our man in antigua, sobremesa on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
‘being a sexagenerian my days are often spent talking about food rather and sex/drugs…usually…there’s a brand of english muffins at Bodegona put out…oops, wrong word…made/baked by Europa that’s indistinguishable from many US bakers (meaning that i can’t remember the brand that advertised the ‘nooks and crannies’ thing..trust me…right…later, when the brain (sic)kicked in..Thomas’ English Muffins, [...]
