It's my final day in El Sauce before I take off for Peru and Bolivia, and I think EVERY friend of mine from Las Minitas from the cofee and tourism cooperatives is in town. Even the ones I never see. Alcides and Nicholas, and then Emiliano and…
My 10-year-old El Sauce brother, Alé, made his own Foosball game in an afternoon with wood, nails and a marble. We hit the marble with Popsicle sticks. It was remarkably well-done; it took some doing and the nails kept it going but slowed it down…
I think there is no better place in El Sauce than Rio Grande, a river about 15 minutes by truck outside the town. My first time there Rio was not so sweet; I gulped down some water and had a marathon vomit session worthy of a "Jackass" f…
Last night was karaoke in La Marca, one of the few bars in El Sauce. Sean and I sang "Die Die My Darling" by The Misfits, back in the good old days before Danzig left and when he still had a neck. I am a terrible singer. I don't car…
I taught English the other night and the activity I gave them is to choose to create a horror or action or Mexican soap opera ... or Fast and the Furious and act it out. And then I gave them stuff like a machete and me and a cat and having to sing…
10 p.m. on a "schoolnight," on the back of a motorcycle, puttering along the pavement, past the neighbors sitting outside their houses or on the street, with a friend riding your draft, close enough you could grab the dirty wheel. They are…
Photos from our weekend trip to San Juan del Sur, the famous beach and surfing area in Nicaragua for Semana Santa. They are filming Survivor there. Really? You could walk over the f-ing hill for a beer and soda. Not much “surviving” there. We also…
In the last three days, I have watched a guy lift a 100-pound bag of cement with his teeth, learned how to hammer 14 nails at once, rode down a cinder volcano on a wooden board with formica to make me go faster glued to theb bottom of it, narrowly…
Started the day with a 2.5-hour wait at my least favorite spots in any country: the bus station. Finally got to El Sauce and not enough time to hike to the waterfall so we grabbed friends and went to Rio Grande, where there are 20-foot or so rock…
