Puerto Nuevo
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Well he wasn’t dressed like this, and this isn’t really him anyway. But the moral of the story is that every town has it’s hero(s), and this one resides south of the border in the lobster town of Puerto Nuevo… Six of us had rented a three story, three bedroom condo on the ocean and had walked into town to a market to stock our refrigerator for the night. When Dan had paid for his bag of beer, a roll of bills he was carrying, in addition to what he had in his wallet, fell out of his pants pocket. We’d walked about 10 feet out of the market when we realized that someone was calling at us to stop. A young kid had picked up the roll of bills and was trying to return it to Dan. Dan thanked him and rewarded him with one or two twenty’s and explained there was over a thousand dollars in the roll. On the walk back to the condo we stopped into a bar to celebrate Dan’s good fortune and then to spend his small fortune on rounds of drinks and requests to a 7-piece Mariachi Band at $20 a song. Off comes another layer of Andrew Jackson’s image as the band starts playing Feliz Navidad for the third time. Yes it’s only August, but we really didn’t know too many songs to request to these guys.
Giant Sombrero Bar
Never been there and probably does not exist today. Located in Santiago, Mexico (although which one, I don’t know). There are two Santiagos, not too far apart from each other, Northeast of Mexico City, one appears to be a city and the other a town. At any rate, one of them was home to the Giant Sombrero Bar, which certainly would have been my bar of choice.
