March 15, 2000

it'll be a week tomorrow since i arrivd in puerto viejo d talamanca. big italian colony. costa d papito was full for th night i arrived, then it was spotty for th week, so i ended up staying @ their neighbors'- sandra & leo from brescia, not far from milano...

just found out bill mclarney's in town! maybe i'll get to meet th guy before i head back to san jose next sunday, guatemala next wednesday, miami th following sunday...

guatemala was a bit of a bust, @ least partly because of my thin skin for soical inequalities & aggressive hustling.(i was even propositioned by a middle-aging mayan guy in antigua...)

isabel was hitting critical mass after th terrible theft of new computers & most of her business'office equipment, but she certainly didn't need me to hold her hand, she just needed to deal w/ th fallout- personal & professional- which made me wish i'd headed down this way directly, but it was a learning experience as focused & gentle as they come, so why complain?

happy happy happy to just be able to communicate, what w/ flooded landlines, overloaded servers knocking off, telephone service spotty @ best...i want to cook dinner & propose buisness owners get together & see if they can negotiate some deal for a total wireless package, see if www.wanderlustmedia.com can sponsor maybe half of th setup/startup costs, if they don't come to more than $5-6k...satellite dish? couple of state of th art dells? anybody out there wanna help me do th numbers & join th sponsorship? gonna start talkin'it up...who knows, i may be returning here regularly, th place vibrrrates in my childhood memories so deeply...(flowing love, à suivre...)

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