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bocas del toro again

// December 23rd, 2004 // Bocas Del Toro, Panama

well today was nice and sunny… michael is a half stepper… we changed out of the shitty ass hotel to a nicer one… it{s basically a hostel… i{m on a stuipd spanish keyboard and haven{t taken the time to figure out where the correct punctuations marks are so i{ll just pretend i{m doing it correct.

neither me nor michale like this city much… the locals aren{t very friendly… they of course just want our money… i{m ready to tell the next one to fuck off.

we were going to go to a beach today though there isn{t any close… we{re on an island too… we would either have to rent a bike $5-day or take a boat to a different island…. which would be between $5 -10 per person… which is just bullshit to me.

we are going to leave tomorrow if it{s shitty, or stay another day if its nice and go snorkeling…. we need to take a boat off the island, then a bus to David, Pananama… then another bus to where we are going… I forget the name, but its a little town up in the mountains… it sounds beautiful from the guidebook so let{s hope… i just want to get out of this city… its like a little can cun.

we went to happy hour last night… it was for an hour… $0.50 beers was nice. though the beer is shit… its like miller lite or rolling rock… weak and shitty tasting… i miss the beer from costa rica… maybe there{s better here that i havent found… i hope!! so after happy hour, we went to a bar that in english is called the sinking ship or something close to that… it was interesting… a lot of 90{s dance music… which sucked… there was some salsa and i liked watching the people salsa dance, perhaps i will try to learn sometime down here…i doubt it though.

the bar had a deck that extended out over the water… in a U shape from the shore… in the open area of the U there were lights shining down into the water illuminating a sunken banana boat… it was neat as you could see different fishies swimming around it… other than that the bar was kinda lame… like a dance club from the states… lots of stupid people dancing to stupid music… it{s not my scene. we left sometime after midnight and went back to the hotel… i wrote a bit before bed….

today was spent mostly hanging out… i called home, and got some stuff from the grocery market… i wouldnt exactly call it a grocery store… the markets hear are filled with a weird stench that i assume is from the meet… almost enough to vomit from… well not that bad… but the meat counters are definately not up to my standards… though when i think about it, the meat is probably better… i highly doubt it came from a mass slaughter house… who knows…

so im going to go now…