Do you want some pot? If so, come on down to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica.
As you walk down the street of this small Costa Rican town, on the Caribbean coast, you are bound to get an offer or two for some pot. The other day, I went to check out a room at a hostel. A guy, I think he was the owner, was putting together some pot in the kitchen, while a group of 5 or so guys smoked in the open ¨lobby¨.
I am sure the same thing happens at some places in the states but i do not know where those places are. I stayed at the hostel Rockin J´s the other day. There are two floors with individual tents and some rooms. The hostel is right next to the ocean. After the drinkers went to bed, and the guy a few tents away stopped his hacking cough, it was nice to hear the ocean waves crashing in the distance.
It was not so nice to walk through the common area and see a white dread-locked American woman breastfeeding her kid with her left hand and drinking a beer with her right hand. I am not a medical professional but something seemed wrong about that picture.
There is a great beach there. I enjoyed the water and the sand much more than I did Tamarindo, on the Pacific coast.
Another great day at the beach has come to and end for me. Since I will be off to Panama tomorrow, the goal now is not have any Colones (costa rican money) in my pocket when i cross the border. I have been told that it is impossible to change the money once you cross. So I need to budget my bus fare and any food i want to eat. I had to change $20 to Colones today, so i should not run out of money. I think i will have to have a nice dinner tonight to make sure i am near 0.00 when i cross. At the moment, I have nearly 5,000 Colones, which is about $10. $10 does not go too far here.
In Granada, Nic, I bought a pineapple for about $0.20; while in this town they cost $2.00. After you pay twenty cents, it is hard to think about paying more.
This weekend will be the start of Carnaval in Panama. I am not sure where I will be but I will try to hit some of the bigger party places. I will let you know if i succeed.
bjm 1/30/08
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Carnival . . . I had to give a talk about Mardi Gras to a group I belong to (WTB) and I found out a couple of interesting things thru Google.
Carne - vale is the latin root for carnival. It means "goodbye (vale) to carne (meat)"
Once upon a time we abstained from meat on wednesday and fridays during lent.
Mardi Gras - "fat tuesday" or "pancake tuesday." People had to get rid of all the fat in their diet for lent, so they fried batches of pancakes.
Mardi Gras in this country started in Mobile, Alabama! Because the French brought the custom with them and Mobile was the capital of the Louisiana territory.
That's all for now - mom
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