This is the lobby where we checked in and were given golden space-tape rave bracelets to identify us as guests. We saw others with much more drab, hospital-style ones and thought we were special until we learned ours only marked us for check out on Monday

El Trencito - a typical nica-resort answer to the question "why would I want to walk up a giant hill to pour money into a casino in this kind of heat?". It is essentially a Disney-trolley pulled by a bright blue and powerfully smelly diesel Massey-Ferguson tractor. One night as we stumbled drunkenly by an idling one, we briefly considered taking it for a joyride

The Montelimar pool and pool bar with the Pacific beyond, loaded with bright pink Germans

These two trees are attached by a long, horizontal trunk. I could not tell which one spawned the other.