Reflections

watching zinc rust feeding zancudos street venders at every major stoplight the beauty of volcanoes, mountains, lakes, beaches drinking soda out of a plastic bag with a straw rubber stamps all night night clubs kids selling flowers and grasshopers mad out of palm leaves waiting in line at night to buy carne asada at an outdoor pit the smell of piles of leaves burning by the road buying water in little plastic bags from street venders bargaining in the market place fishing with the locals learning spanish by watching tv nicaraguan engineering (everyone is an engineer) the rest are lawyers....... hunting with the locals flying to the east coast and meeting Alan giving polaroid pictures of some poor farmers to them earning respect from the tight knit fishermen in Casares building my home in huehuete meeting other gringos here hipicos lamenting the death of a man I only met once buying shrimp in Puerto Cabezas la purisima easter on the beach nacatamales the challenges involved in dealing with the beaurocracy sitting on a cliff watching the waves the islands off of granada buying a set of soccer shoes for one of the local kids ceviche FDC nicaraguan dirty humor alquilleros getting credit getting a cedula gallo pinto rocking chairs watching them make new brakes for my truck watching them make a new custom radiator for my car for $25 sunsets sunrises being on the ocean all night thunderstorms the ghost house near managua leon viejo where Cordoba was killed lobster diving with a compressor and hookah riding a horse eating garrobos mondongo newyears on the beach leeches on the toilet at a farm near masachapa the hospitality of the locals DID I MENTION FEEDING ZANCUDOS????