serendipty

it's a drizzly afternoon in granada, nicaragua. i got here earlier and am about to go crash out on a hammock in the courtyard at the hostel where i'm staying. strangely enough, it seems to be full of americans. in mexico last summer, i ran into everyone BUT americans.

i had a fortunate string of events unfold right before i left, and on the best fourth of july ever. (i remember that they all seemed to be rainy while i've been in austin, except maybe last year.) jeremy called me early to let me know he was taking the snake bike out for a party in it's jersey shore storage yard, which is owned by this guy named artie. h came by and told me i really had to meet artie b/c he knows people in nicaragua. so i met artie, and he asked me to bring some cash and a dvd of a documentary he's making on nicaraguans to his friend, and we called her and spoke to her to make plans to meet this week while i am in granda. it turned out she lives here, and it was my first destination. then we had to go pick up kegs for the party and we stopped at whatsville, where i ran into alix who was there with friends. as it turned out, one of them was about to go back to bluefields, on the carribean coast in nicaragua. she gave me her conatct info, which is great cos i was considering skipping the carriban coast all together.

since i bought my plane ticket pretty last minute, i had center seats on both planes but managed to swindle my way into window seats, even though both flights were full. best of all, since i got no sleep the past few nights, between writing curriculum for work and planning and those damn malaria pills fucking with me, i managed for the first time in my life to get some serious sleep in while flying. i needed it.

getting to granada from managua was easy, i had to shake off a persistent cabbie who was trying to charge me $10 to drive to the UCA for the microbus to granada. the cabbie i got was really talkative when i asked him about the situation in honduras, and he bought a bag of cut mango with salt and shared it with me on the ride.

fyi: i fixed the phone situation. i think it's cool.