The Capitol of Baseball

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First off, it is hot as balls in this country. We stumbled into Leon early Monday morning after the episode at the border. After checking into a great hostel I agonized through 9 innings of White SOx baseball resulting in opening day depression (i have another blog dedicated to my absurd obssession with the White SOx so Ill asve that). Leon is an extremely interesting city, with cheap beer, a Nicaraguam KFC (called the tips or something like that), and a boatload of good street food. We spent Tuesday at the beach. Barton and our canadian tree planter friends for a reason that eludes me decided to walk the 20km to the beach down a desolate road in the 93 degree heat in teh midst of a terrible hangover. I took the bus... the beach, Penoya its called was empty, beuatiful, the sand, partially black from volcanic ash, was hot as shit, and there is some type of sea lice that bites you when you are in the water. Another night of large drinking followed our beach excursion. Everyone loves baseball in this country and so far they all either love the yankees or red sox, they seem to really know the game and the players and it is great to see the locals tell the lame europeans that they cant watch soccer because a real sport is on... right now I am on my way to check out ab art musuem and a sandista memorial or something like that... Tommorow its Granada, the 1-2 Sox take on the 0-3 Tigers, and the Bruins march into the final four...
see you down the road....

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Photos

Leon Church
Leon Cathedral from 1571

Barton
Barton dreaming of South America... check his new blog beginning in a few weeks when I head home for new adventures