Pachanga Diaries

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Carl was born, raised and educated in New England, New Hampshire. He graduated from Darmouth College with a major in geology. Soon he decided to study rocks and earth’s layers in Guatemala for his master’s thesis.

While camping up in the mountains of Techalapaga he fought wild animals with his pocket Swiss army knife and ate “gourmet” spiders that can only be found in those mountains. Even though Carl was strong and nothing in the Guatemala’s jungle could get him sick, it was written in his destiny that his true love was going to save his life…

One day Carl received a package from a “Chimiguaro” (an Inca’s delivery system that employs high altitude Peruvian runners to deliver mail to the most hidden places in the jungle. 25% higher price if delivered by horse). Anyways, Carl received a bottle of Pepsi that got him sick right away. The Chimiguaro dragged Carl to the closest hospital to get attention. His fever was increasing and he started to loose conscious. Right before he pass out the blurry image of a beautiful latin woman show up in front of him and he heard how she was talking to another woman.

- “Mamá creo que haste se lo esta llevando la bruja y el seguro medico no le cubre aqui en Guatemala. Es un seguro medico gringo que ya sabes que no sirven pa’ na!!.”

Translation: – Mother, the witch is taking the soul of this one and he has a graduated student insurance that doesn’t cover here in Guatemala. It is an American health insurance that anyways is worth nothing. We might have to take care of this one.

Two weeks later Carl woke up to find out he was saved by miss Guatemala 1990, Miss Carmen Reyna. After two years of romance Carmen and Carl got married and have been together for 27 years. At the beginning of the marriage Carl was taken to dancing classes “A punta de pistola” (at gun point) by Carmen who always enjoyed dancing and wanted to share the joy of dancing with her new husband. He has been part of Macondo since 1992 (… good times; sob!, sob!) when he started dancing salsa, meringue and boleros. For many years Carl was a geologist by day and a dancer by night. Currently, Carl is the president of a Panama natural resources company. His true call in life was discovered by him in the Afrolatinfest 2002 while taking a Hip hop class.

Ever since Carl has become a radical hip hop singer and dancer mixing Geological terms in his lyrics with Salsa rhythms. You can find Carl spinning on his head at Underground studios whenever he is in Boulder or at the “Dale Muchacho” Panama hip hop club on Thursday night singing for his fans.

Tomorrow night, (Wednesday, June 01, 2005) Carl will be in town dancing Salsa with all the ladies fans at Trilogy Wine bar.

Happy Birthday Carl.

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