Feb 14, 2005
It is carnival season here, which means that every town that can has one or more nights of really loud music and women dancing around the streets in feathers and a thong. Montevideo is small, old, a little rundown, and clean. There is one Mexican restaurant, but the owner, who is from Mexico City, seems to have been in another line of work in his own country, something that didn´t involve making food taste good. The food is awful.
There are not any really tall buildings in Montevideo, and TGIFridays bailed and closed three restaurants some years ago, so my only connection to home here is the local McDonalds, of which there are several.It has rained for days on end, and on the other side of the country,about 200 miles away, the picnic benches beside the river are submerged.
I have been here for a lot longer than anticipated, not only because the weather back home is miserable, but also to check out an opportunity to help produce a motorcycle rally in this region next year. While I may not have a lot of experience at this, none to be exact, I have been to a couple of bike nights and nobody here seems to have any idea how to put something like this together, much less the ability to verify my claims that I am the one who puts together the Sturgis and Daytona Bike Week rallys in the US every year.
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