beach vendors

Went to the beach yesterday in Punta Hermosa (Playa Caballos) with Vicky, JoAnn, Sural, and my friend Chris who is visiting. Here's a list of things we bought off the beach from various beach
vendors . . .


-2 CDs (really JoAnn, Backstreet Boys?), $1 each
-3 or 4 pairs of earrings ($1.30)
-5 Alaska maracuya popsicles
-1 anklet ($0.60)
-1 necklace
-2 books (pirated just like the CDs and DVDs), $5 each

other things we could have bought:
chicken sandwiches
corn on the cob (the kernels are HUGE here)
DVDs ($1)
giant wraps from india (expensive, at $20)
dresses
hippie knee-length pants

like chris said, it's hard to relax at the beach with all that shopping going on!

a surfer's perspective.

surfers have an amazing worldview . . .

Rathika: Yes, my parents are from Sri Lanka. It's near India.
Alberto: Sri Lanka? Really?!? That's niiiiice. That's great. Wow.
Rathika: Yeah! . . . uh, why?
Alberto: amazing surfing there!

pretty much, if you can surf it, they've heard of it.

location, location, location.

i'll get back to that thread on ethnicity and stuff shortly.

but, first, a funny little thing about peruvian hospitals it they seem to attract a conspicuous nearby conglomeration of pharmacies (logical), orthopedics and radiology providers (ok), and coffins retailers. yup, you read that right. I know of at least one outside Dos de Mayo. And on the road by Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia (where our labs are located), there are at least seven, SEVEN coffin stores just across the street from the hospital. And their window displays are all coffins, in various elaborate styles.

I guess the first rule of sales is to know your market, eh?