SanPedro De Laguna cursed by Dreads

...the bus swerved down a rollercoaster road into San Pedro de Laguna, dodging chicken buses and stray dogs, stopping outside Shanti Shanti. We had no idea where we were. A narrow street wound its way between ramshackle houses and there were no street signs. Two rough looking locals approached us, offerring to show us where all the good hotels were. In apprehension, myself, Amir and Rob followed nervously. We turned quickly off the only paved street in town, into a labyrinth of pathways that constitute streets here. We fell further behind our guides fearing we were being done, we saw dungeons that serenaded as rooms and passed out hippies at every turn. In one hostel a guy lay naked outside a door, with a dreadlocked girl and guy singing songs, the age of aquarius had returned. We settled on the next sane looking place, with a view of beauty. The lake surrounded by volcanic peaks and washer women. Stunning.
.....want to come to a party?
......sure.
...jumping into the back of a pickup truck when full of beer maybe is not the sainist thing to do. When it begins to drive up a 70 degree incline and back down the other side is madness. But good craic. After this ride I got off at a party hidden deep in the woods on the shore of the lake. Crazed 90´s dance music bellowed out and all I could see were dreads. Thousands of them looking irritatingly at me and the lads. Almost aggresively they offered LSD and seemed pissed that it wasn´t taken. It wasn´t a good atmosphere, there were some arguments and howls at the moon. These so called free love shits are extremely irritating. I dont mind if they don´t wash for religious reasons but most of these kids are middle class Yanks and Eurothrash. To them everything is free because their daddies pay for it. It hurts this town, andhas turned a beautiful place into a dropout zone.
Please see footnote :

For some peoples of African descent, locks are a statement of racial or ethnic pride. Some see them as a repudiation of Eurocentric values represented by straightened hair. For some, the rejection of ideas and values deemed alien to African peoples (which dreadlocks embody) sometimes can assume a spiritual dimension. Similarly, others wear dreads as a manifestation of their black nationalist or pan-Africanist political beliefs and view locks as symbols of black unity and power, and a rejection of oppression, racism and imperialism. While most Rastafari sects welcome all ethnicities and the history of dreadlocks attributes the hairstyle to almost all racial and ethnic groups, some blacks who attach strong racial meaning to dreads disapprove of the wearing of dreads by nonblacks, viewing such practice as a form of cultural appropriation.

Thats my rant, all is good and I´m moving on again tomorrow.
Adios

PS . Picked up a copy of 44 by Peter Sheridan in Antigua, it was a unproof read promotional copy. Very strange.