Malecon below.
I just realized, I live over a bar on the Caribbean Sea, how cool is that. Never in my fanasties in my youth did I ever think this would happen, life is stranger than fiction.
We had a rock and roll cruise ship today. I met a guy today from California on the ship who has a network of internet radio stations. He fell in love with Mahahual and wants to come back to visit. So guess what? Next week I will be starting my own podcast radio show to his network of stations around the world. I basically will have my own live radio show from the balcony of the Tropicante during cruise ship days.
I have a very funny South Carolina story that happened here today Thursdays here are “Redneck Day” here in Mahahual. We get 2 or 3 ships loaded with tourists from the south, Alabama, SC, NC, Georgia, and a bunch of others. We also call it “double wide ships”. At the port I always made a lot of money on Thursdays because I would wear my South Carolina Gamecocks hat, and people would buy tours from me because I was from the south. Well today I was in my chair in front of the Tropicante on the malecon doing what I do, and some guy came by with a Gamecock hat on and said “Go Gamecocks”. Well we started talking, and him and his wife and another couple from South Carolina were here for the day on a cruise ship. The 2 guys were both pretty big guys, and the women both being from South Carolina of course were both pretty chubby, shit I will just go ahead and say it, they both were fat. So the women asked me were was I good place to eat on the malecon. I turned and said, ”Well the Tropicante of course, I eat here a lot”. The women started saying, “Well we don’t know, we might just want to walk around and look, we heard there were some all you could eat places here”. At that precise moment one of the waiters came walking by with a tray with a platter of mini burritos, onion rings, iguana eggs, french fries, fried shrimp and fish, (special they have can’t remember the name on the menu, but it is huge and everything is fried) and it is a lot to eat. As soon as the waiter passed by, one of the women’s eyes got real big and I could see her mouth start to water, and she eyed that platter the whole time as the waiter walked by, she then turned and said, “We are eating here”, and drug her husband and the other couple inside. I noticed their table later and let me tell you, I bet they ate the whole one side of the menu. And they attacked that food, they even bought a couple of bottles of tequila to take back with them. They shook my hand, patted me on the back, said Go Cocks and left. Got to love my SC homies, I also had a bunch more things happen today, but will save for blog.
I think I have turned into the Mahahual “Whisperer”, I am getting all kinds of requests from people onlne. How to get here? Can I get dental work there? More and more people are asking me questions everyday.
One thing that is great about living on the malecon here. Halftime I walked around corner and got me a half chicken, spaghetti, rice, tortillas, and salad to go for about $4 USA money. Chicken is grilled outside on grill with wood, very good, back in time for second half.
Kind of surreal watching NFL playoffs from a balcony overlooking the Caribbean Sea in Mahahual. Never thought I would end up like this.
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