monkeys, lizards, birds, dolphins, etc.

this lizard hung out in my nipple hair for a day or so without me knowing.



Kevin undercover in Suchitoto, el salvador


these parrots totally blew my cover in Copan Ruinas, Honduras.


more fun at the bird sanctuary. nicole´s so happy the parasites are gone! and the parrots took their place.

the museum is as close as we can get to the mayan ruins... a huge group of protesters armed w sticks have been blocking the entrance. we didn´t want to upset them.




kevin flying over monkey island. slowly.

adventures in upright life

suchitoto, el salvador. nicole was still ´with parasites´ but she tried to enjoy it.. there was a rad women´s rights celebration one night that i think the entire town came to.


on our way to the zoo/cave/local tourist attraction in esquipulas, guatemala.

monkey island, the highlight (aside from famous black jesus) of esquipulas.

and riding a tuk-tuk, on our way back, until.....


we got a flat tire. but the driver pushed the car over and had it changed in 2 minutes, no problema!

san salvadoloreans

A game of spanish Scrabble(TM) that nicole and I played with my brother, Chris. It was great to get to hang out with Chris in El Salvador because he is the best and he knows so much about El Salvador. He was here to observe the elections and work with a group that helped the FMLN win.











These pictures were taken at the Museo de Arte Popular, a folk art museum. The scenes can represent anything from farmers working, mujeres making tortillas, important peace talks, to a sequence of a couple meeting, getting married, having sex, giving birth, and being a happy family, all contained in little egg-shaped ceramics.



Kevin is now almost completely free of amoebas! oh, and he got a haircut and a shave.



i got my first straight razor shave. this barber was incredible, like eduardo scissorhands. after he cut my hair and shaved my face he strapped a vibrating glove on and massaged my face, head and shoulders. i´m going to do this more often.

san salvadorrrrrr

Well by now we know we aren´t big city fans...but our pursuit of Chris, Kevin´s bro, led us to the crazy capital of san salvador. it really made us appreciate the small-town paradise of juayua. as soon as we got to our hotel, we learned that chris was staying right across the street! hahaha.

We´ve visited a couple of small but great museums; one full of the tiniest sculptures you´ve ever seen, and the other dedicated to civil war memoirs. Yesterday we ventured downtown and tried not to get mugged while weaving through the maze of street vendors, chicken buses and buildings. The noise alone was deafening, and we needed to get out fast. The lady at our hotel recommended bus #1 or 9, so what bus did we pick? #41a. Needless to say, we had a LONG complimentary tour and ended up who knows where-way outside of city limits-at dusk. Through sheer blessings, the driver found us a taxi and we got home safely.

Today I think we´ll stick with an organized tour and head to the beach with Chris´s group.

This is the interior of an evangelical church downtown. we´ve never seen a church quite like it-the exterior was a big dome, and it was gloomy inside with some creepy statues. but it was still nice to have a few minutes of refuge from the mayhem out on the streets.

this is our buddy pepito who lives at our hotel. he likes to bite ears and fingers, so visiting was risky. but he was just so cute...

here´s me and pepito. kevin thinks we look alike in this photo.

dang. i mean Yay!

I think I'm almost totally over the Dengue Fever that I diagnosed myself with. I had all the more common and less severe symptoms; headache, muscle and joint aches, nausea, fatigue, plus Dengue Fever is the name of a band that I have enjoyed listening to for years,
http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic .

As for more wonderful and interesting news, the FMLN party in El Salvador won the presidential elections 2 days ago. The people here are very happy, here is another blog that will tell you more,
http://ofamerica.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/que-viva-el-fmln-el-salvadors-left-win-elections-ends-150-years-of-military-oligarch-rule/



As beautiful democracy was being delivered in ballot boxes, Kevin and Nicole swim in beautiful water. These pools were connected by tunnels which one is able to explore through, though it is kind of scary. Kevin followed a local boy into one and swam/walked about 400 feet to the exit on the other side of the hill.

post tunnel syndrome


Today we went on a hike and found a guerrilla leader....

and then a swamp monster.


Wherever you order food here, it comes with one of these.

el salvablog

we are in el salvador, just in time for the presidential election. we didn't take any pictures of the first town we stayed in, Ahuachapan, but here is our hotel room, with hella trippy mural (look at the bottom of the page for another variation), in Juayua (sounds like what-you-want).



Papusas. they are everywhere here. kevin has been feeling under the weather with constant nauseau for about a week.

more poached fotos

looking muy tonto
nicole @ pollo campero
i wish i took this picture of a backyard wrestling match