Granada, Nicaragua, 2004-05-03

It`s only 9:00 am, and I already can`t help but think of how all those American agents must have suffered over all those years. It`s really hot here. Such a difficult climate to smuggle hot black artillery and to torch villages. Maybe when it`s for a good cause that makes everything bearable.

Leon and Granada are Nicaragua`s two old cities, the first traditionally liberal (poorer) and the second traditionally conservative (richer). If I would judge by all the polyglotic wall-scribble philosophy at this hostel, I`d say it isn`t too conservative here at all. Anyway, tired of so much fighting between the two towns, they built Managua as the new capital back in 1857, simply because it was between the two. Didn`t seem to work too well, though. I had to transfer in Managua yesterday, and to me it looked like a smaller dirtier poorer L.A. with a lot less Asians but still too many S.U.V.s.

I miss direct night busses. Yesterday was just a blur of one reincarnated schoolbus after another. I could have taken a direct first classer from Tegucigalpa to Managua but that would have been only one hour faster or so,and 3X more expensive. And it`s still a day bus. It could have been worth it were it a nighter, but if I`m spending all damned day busriding, I`ll save money and get some fresh wind and be spared terrible action movies the whole way.

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