complements of the season

hi, everyone!

a quick update i write to you from mexico:
- got into san pedro sula late at night with no bags, came back to next day and they had arrived
- visited SHHers quickly
- hit the road: spent one night in guatemala, 3 nights in belize, and now i just got into tulum, mexico (in yucatan near the beach)
- christmas in belize was sketchy as crap but very fun. straight off the boat i stumbled into a reggae jam session (all townies plus me, lena and alex) and established myself as the best guitar player in a town of 1,003 - not hard to do.
i met a hermit who looked like a crossbreed of samuel l. jackson and papa smurf and he showed me his house which is a rebuilt mayan altar with a wood roof and no power in the middle of nowhere. he had run away from the usa round about 1971 when he had a hippie freak-out that never ended.
i recorded a demo cd at a crappy little rust-ridden studio about 10 meters from the ocean - where, incidentally, i met andy palacios, belize´s most famous punta singer - he autographed something for lena, who had heard of him in germany. i need help copyrighting my song just in case a certain sketchy hotelier bootlegged it before i erased it from the computer. as far as i know i have the only master copy with me and am hoping it doesn´t break before i copy it.

i´m so glad to be in mexico right now. it´s so built-up and relatively tourist-friendly.

signing out,
mochilero chuck

PS. so far so good! at a bus stop a little old granny tried to steal 10 mex. pesos from me when i went to buy a taco from her but i caught her - she was a turd, i don´t care how little or old she was.
PPS. this confirms what i read in the lonely planet this morning (thanks ma and pa!): the little tricky trick people sometimes do in yucatan is that they´ll pretend like you didn´t pay them enough. for this all you have to do is be like OKAY, I AM PAYING YOU ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR... etc PESOS NOW. i´ll give them this though: it´s more fun than people just straight up wanting to kill you like in san pedro sula.
PPPS. no, in all seriousness, i´ve had a good 4 or 5 people in mexico just help me out with this or that without asking for anything in return. combine this with a rate of zero people calling out racist names to us on the street so far, and you have a pleasantly surprised chelito.