A Day Off

I took a day off from surf today, I swallowed a bunch of seawater my second time out yesterday and got really sick. I think there's sewage in the water, the same stuff that probably gave me this might-be-staph infection on my side (trapped between my body and my rashguard, I'd be right pissed too if I was staph floating in the ocean). Also got tagged by a jelly on my left ankle while paddling. On a brighter note, I saw a huge sea turtle surface to eat a jelly day before yesterday. Also, I almost got run over by 6 cows hurrying down the path to the beach, when they got there they peed a bunch and then drank the seawater. That was bright because it was funny and weird.

It's mid-day, I'm in town using the internet and going to go grocery shopping. I cruised out to El Zonte earlier, there's a mean right-hand point with a rock bottom (like 99% of the breaks in this country), but the waves looked pretty strong and if you straighten out you'll hit rocks real quick... I'll probably stick to Sunzal since I can't surf worth a crap. It's fun paddling around and getting tossed about though, and occasionally riding a face for a few seconds. Zonte was cool, way more going on there than I expected, I checked out a few hostels/hotels (often the difference is the name, although hotels around here tend to be clench-but assholes about stuff, like 'no outside food or drink'). I met a girl from Montreal whose boyfriend owned one place, really nice, right on the beach. Maybe I can do that. How sick would that be?

I'm thinking about leaving my place because there's no one there, it's lonely. I went next door yesterday to the hostel that has some people, to trade books, and it was super bru-d out, a bunch of Socal guys that seemed misogynistic and had a troubling number of pop Christian books on the shelf. So I probably won't be heading back anytime soon. There was a German girl staying at my place for a couple nights, she left though, so it's just me again. A bummer since there were 6 others when I moved in. I found this super sick house to rent in La Libertad (have I mentioned that?); I met a Canadian couple in Antigua who had rented it. But I need at least one other to rent it, four would be ideal. $5 each a night, a few minutes to catch the bus to the other beaches, a few minutes down to the pier for fresh seafood, a pool, a garden, a grill, awesome views of the ocean and plenty of cool sea breeze... it would be so rad, there's even a couple of surf boards to use. It's *almost* worth renting on my own if I could talk them down, I mean I spend $12 a day on room/(surf) board right now, but really I need some peeps to rent it with me to be fun. Ran into that Aussie Andrew from Flores on the water the other day, he said he might be interested next week but is staying in San Salvador for now. Put a post on Travbuddy and couchsurfer, got some response, maybe something will shake out next week.

Why do the truck drivers put several large fake Mercedes symbols on their truck grills? Don't they realize that having 6 of them actually makes me LESS likely to think they're actually driving a Mercedes?

p.s. Blogger spell check isn't working right now. So slag off.