Washington » Seattle » Pioneer Square March 16th 2012

Published: March 16th 2012North America » United States » Washington » Seattle » Pioneer Square
March 16th 2012 

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Hola a todos! 

The place of origin is misleading hehe. I'm actually in West Seattle at my fave lil pub. The Bridge enjoying a beer or two. Anyways straight to the point....am off to the Oaxaca Coast from May 7th through July 7th or so. Lately the weather has been ugly here! Rain, snow and wind, makes me long for 86F temps and water temps of 82F. Already booked my apartment and got vaccinations squared away! I need this! No phone,but net as needed! I was kinda tossed as to where to go actually. I had spoken with my sister who immediately said i ought to consider a pilgrimage to Spain with her, because she had a friend tell her "it would be awesome". I fired back you ought to consider what you like before making decisions! She sort of agreed. Always struck me as odd when someone pushes a spot on others...bottomline is follow your interests! I cannot wait to see folks albeit for a short time in Mexico City! I made many friends. Will prove to be a wicked trip to say the least...its a 15 hour bus trip from Mexico city to the coast ugggh! On a lighter note seems i locked in my flight at just the right time as speculators are driving oil prices way up. 

Was zero issues booking accomodations...Chris the owner of place I'm staying since it's offseason was very nice. An Aussie family man seems a good guy. So two months of laying around getting sun,although I do insist on seeing the turtle reserve in Mazunte! Well a cutie is eyeballing me (likely due to my freakish looks) so will bid everyone a goodbye and take my leave! Loves to some...the finger to others. Hasta pronto.

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Puerto Escondido May 8th 2012

Published: May 8th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
May 8th 2012 

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Pulley Point

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Eagle Harbor near Seattle!

Well I've arrived! After 51 hours of little sleep! The way here is not for the faint of heart!!!! 5 hours on the first plane, 3 hours on the second plane and 12 gruelling hours on a bus! But I just met the owner properly after my 7 hour nap,and had a couple beers with him. 

I did before i left...go for a mind cleansing ferry ride in Seattle to clear my head. Certainly needed. Not had a chance to look around much as I was buggered when I arrived and promptly crashed,but will post a couple pictures from Seattle and only one from here then hit the bed as I'm still tired and the 2 beers made this worse.

Puerto Escondido May 9th 2012

Published: May 9th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
May 9th 2012 

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P1020045

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My pool and home for the next 2 months.

Second night here. It gets very peaceably quiet after dark here. So earlier today i went on the roof to score some pictures of the sunset...but haze made it impossible. Thank god I've 61 more tries to get it right! Folks here seem insanely laid back...and sometimes thats not a good thing. Details aside i listened to a woman explain how she had left the corporate world to sling burgers at a cousins bar; which I found hilarious considering she obviously had'nt mastered multi-syllable words yet! Hmmmmm. I've a lil buddy here he/she cracks me up a tiny lizard with a giant appetite for gimpy flies and other insects. Sadly the lil bugger has been too stealthy to snap a pic so far. 

Anywho I wandered up to the rooftop to hopefully snap some sunset pictures and breaks of the pipeline on zicatela beach. And while the shots are beautiful the surf here is not friendly save for experienced surfers. Many tourists either die or come close underestimating the undertow here! But beautiful nonetheless. Well its 930 pm here and I'm old and sun does me in so I'm off to the rain locker, but before i go I'll post 

P1020049

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Laps anyone?

more pictures. 

Hasta pronto a todos!

Puerto Escondido May 13th 2012

Puerto Escondido
May 13th 2012 

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Cactus rock!

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A bizarre cactus growing right out of a rock!

Well I've been here nearly a week. This morning since I am always first one up Chris the owner and I took his dogs and went and had breakfast on the beach. Quiet Sunday here as the surf was small today so folks kinda hid inside all day. 

I learned the value of having a homebase here. It helps to be able to come home with 800 pesos worth of groceries and be able to eat for near a week on it and cook right here. 

Everyone keeps talking rain here. I've yet to see a cloud, daytimes are 91-95 degrees F and blistering sun that requires a nap between 12pm and 4pm haha.The high heat has kept me rather sheltered as I acclimate slowly! Very slowly. I have however met some great folks here...not downtown as of yet simply because the heat has curtailed my travels to the Super Che grocery/hardware/everything legal for sale store! 

Next week if I feel energetic I might catch a bus to Mazunte (turtle reserve). Although sometimes I forget I am here another near 8 weeks so I need to chill out a bit..which honestly isn't my style. Anyway I've a date 

Lighthouse

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The lighthouse at the southern break.

with some chorizo I fried up earlier for tacos then maybe a nap and a wander down the hill to Zicatela beach. I will post photos I've recently taken. 

Hasta pronto a todos!

Puerto Escondido May 16th 2012

Puerto Escondido
May 16th 2012 

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The monday morning surf.

The title says all! After days of dry lightening last night at 1030 pm I heard it...faint raindrops! Exciting for the simple reason theres been no rain here for 8 months! After a few minutes it came down hard!!!!! The Aussie surfers all popped out and into the palapa for beers to cheer it on. And the temp. dropped a glorious 10 degrees instantly. 

And tho I too came out and joined in the cheers i soon realized this was perfect sleeping weather and retired. As i walked down the steps a huge toad jumped out and we stared each other down in the deluge..myself perfectly happy to be getting soaked to the bone! 

And this morning over a pot of coffee well before anyone else is stirring i snapped pictures of the 30 or so frogs making ungodly geese-type honking noises in the now way overfull pool. 3 inches of rain in 2 hours means new animals coming out of hiding and a freshness in the air that leaves me feeling slightly voyueristic as i soak it all in. I can only hope that this is the start of the 2 hour downpours so common in the sub 

Rental car!

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My rental after i lost track of it one evening! HAHA

tropics! On that note I will post a few pictures then go for a walk. Seems a new day has begun! 

Hasta pronto a todos

Puerto Escondido May 22nd 2012

Puerto Escondido
May 22nd 2012 

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Iguana

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My little buddy hanging out watching me!

Good early morning people! Haven't blogged for a few days, namely because I've been properly lazy! Ok explaining the title...I'll start with "Aussies". There are numerous here in town given the surf culture here. Anyway Saturday night I decided to see if I still had it in me for a night out. Proved I do but I Paid the next day haha. We left here at 6pm with a bottle of coffee flavored mescal (yummy) the 4 of us wandered up the beach to the party hostel. The evening wound up with 4 Aussie guys 3 Aussie girls...I think the 4th girl was a Kiwi, A Sepo (me) and a Mexican noone knew. As my evening wound down at 515am i found myself following my compatriots down the road with one stray Aussie reaching through the bars of the oxxo store (like 7-11) screaming at the woman clerk! At this point I decided "taxi time" and headed home. All told was still a fun evening and it seems I'm ok every now and again hangin' with the youngins'. Ok moving on to Mexican dentists! I've had a tooth that has been cracked since January when it inexplicitly exploded on a flight 

Iguana.

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My buddy giving me the stink eye! As if to say "go away"!

from Oregon to Seattle. So I found a dentist locally armed with a prescription my home doc filled for me. So when it flared up again last week I promptly went to see this guy and all told pulling tooth and an upper and lower cleaning will be 122 dollars US. Not bad! But as he broke it in half and removed half then ground it out and proceeded to try n pop the rest out i yelped like a lil girl whose favorite toy had been taken away...(still infected) so I now have half a molar and some drugs to kill pain and infection with a second appointment this Saturday! Am hoping the second yank goes well because I want to head to Oaxaca for a weekend. Oh and as i close this up..the other day I caught an Iguana hanging out in a tree outside my bungalow, so will post pictures of him! 

Hasta pronto a todos!

Puerto Escondido May 29th 2012

Puerto Escondido
May 29th 2012 

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Storm!

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The beginning of a front coming in that sent wonderfully cool rains!

Howdy people! Been a while I know and I am sorry (albeit barely). Sooooo....about said title! Today after relaxing most of the day in my apartment I wandered up to the main palapa to eat up some taco filling I had previously made. 

I encountered the usual suspects; meaning the aussie 20 somethings and a couple straggler girls that follow them. And a church teen group of 25 or so kids and various chapperones. The teen group was assembling for some sort of outing as the Aussies watched an HBO show that was just foul!Now mind you in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett I'm so St. Ignacious but again I'm no barfly. Meaning I've my foul-mouthed sailor moments. I had warned one of the kids a few times about gratuitous use of profanities that fell on relatively deaf ears. Infact one even said to me "whats it to ya mate". Incredibly these "college educated" clods replied in short order! So today as the pastor and 20+ kids assembled to the wide screen playing what even myself considered crude humor,I leaned over to one of the Aussies sitting close by and asked...Is this really appropriate given there's a teen religious 

Pool getting refilled!

group right here? He responded quickly with a pull off his beer..."they'll get over it". I was livid! No person has the right to decide what someone is exposed to. So seeing as theres nothing I can do in any significant way,I've decided I'm no longer going to speak to them,look at them or engage in any way whatsoever. I can't imagine a world where civilized folks do that to each other...it's insane! So while looking down my nose at them for the duration of their stay...(I'm here longer than most) might not accomplish much I'll feel better steering clear of these "Adults". I did recently take some photos that I will post and now that my tooth has been removed and I'm back on solid food I hope to be off to Oaxaca soon! And since I'm sitting outside shirtless yet still dripping sweat I'll close this and head off for a cool shower then a dip in the pool then BED!!!!!!!! 

Hasta pronto a todos! 

Puerto Escondido June 5th 2012

Published: June 5th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
June 5th 2012 

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Sunset!

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Sunset at La Punta overlooking Zicatela.

Howdy people! 

Well tonight I ate way too much food,so I figured since I'm in for the night; I'd update blog. Dinner was a 320 gram (or lil over half pound) new york cut steak,some garlic toast and the best damned sweet corn I've ever had! Seems my camera has developed a weird tiny little spot inside the lens so will take it downtown tomorrow to get it repaired...sheesh means I got to put a tshirt on haha! Three of the 6 Aussie party animals have left for home making this place very peaceful! Although last night the 3 remaining tied one on fairly hard and this morning at 7am the cleaners and I had a chuckle as i swept through emails with a pot of coffee. Later on though when 2 of them surfaced looking like something the cat had drug in eaten and then coughed up, us "oldies" laughed at them to their faces! I reckon they've kind of partied themselves out. And so tomorrow they're all cruising up the coast to a place called Zacawa..I think...am unsure of the spelling. Which is cool because I can watch things here for a couple days, and either head to 

Twilight

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Twilight at Downtown Pto.

Oaxaca later this week or first thing next. Am either tired or so stuffed that I can't think straight so will post and annotate some pictures and hit the fart sack. 

Hasta pronto a todos!

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Pochutla, San Angel, and Mazunte!

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido

Published: June 12th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
June 12th 2012 

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Sunset!

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Sunset from homebase a few nights ago.

Got up insanely early today and headed to the bus stop (pemex gas station on the highway). And lo and behold 30 pesos and 1.5 hours later I'm in Pochutla! Nothing really to see there though,so a taxi to San Angel for breakfast on the sea! 

The days leading up to today are kinda fuzzy at best! Had a send off for 2 of the 3 Aussies left here so now theres a whopping 5 of us including the owner...which makes for quiiet afternoons on a floatie in the pool with a 6-pack. 

7 of us went to a rib dinner Sunday night that would've made Fred Flintstone cringe! It was huge. (pics to follow) All in all I never really understood the mindset here until about noon today! (Again pic to follow) Was mellow....showed up to Mazunte after numerous hair-raising collectivo rides to the turtle reserve being closed sadly. But all is not lost Chris the owner found a hammock at a bar that was closed and i scored some beers from a tienda up the street. I enjoyed the downtime just staring at the sea while Chris napped. And after a disappointing yet fun day am now 

Cute hotel.

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Funky little hotel on Zicatela!

back home staring at the pool floatie and thinking...damn that and a few beers sound good right now! So will annotate the pics I took the last few days and publish this so the relatives know I'm alive and go get some sun! 

Hasta pronto a todos.

A HUATULCO EN MOTO

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