Blogs from Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Aussies, Coffee Mescal and Mexican Dentistry!
Published: May 22nd 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
May 22nd 2012
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 ... read more
May 16th 2012
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 ... read more
May 13th 2012
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 ... read more
Sunset...or something close to it.
Published: May 9th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
May 9th 2012
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 ... read more
Puerto Escondido Arrived!!!!!
Published: May 8th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
May 8th 2012
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.... read more
So Many Beaches, So Little Time Left....
Published: March 29th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
March 27th 2012
We are nearing the end of this trip...It will be good to be home, but we'll miss the sun, the people, the flowers, the fresh fruit, and the relaxation...We really like our hotel, but we are the only people over 25 here...It is a surprisingly quiet place...I think most of the guys are serious surfers who get up early and surf before breakfast... some of the youngsters do talk to us...we've gotten to know two young men from the Outer Banks(N. C.) who do restaurant work during the high season there and come here to surf in the low season... There are twenty-somethings and retirees here in town...no-one in between...More Israeli surfers than expected, lots of young Aussies, many older Canadians, quite a few Europeans of all ages, and a smattering of Americans. Men seem to ... read more
And the Livin' is Easy....
Published: March 24th 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto Escondido
March 24th 2012
Well.....we're not doing much these days...running on the beach in the morning beofre it gets beastly hot (Lynn), walking to the restaurant on the corner owned by a Canadian (Dan's Deluxe) for breakfast...a swim in the pool....maybe a taxi ride to another beach or to town....Reading on the roof top deck, a nap....walk on the beach to watch the sunset...dinner...some more reading.....and sleep...repeat the next day.... We went to the swimming beach a few days ago, and will go back after the weekend crowds have left. We went to the market in town today to buy a duffle bag, since Bill's suitcase is giving out. He also bought shorts...tried them on right there in the market!!! Wish I had a photio.... We'll visit a home for sale down the coast tomorrow, just out of curiosity.. We ... read more
March 22nd 2012
We spent Monday ( a national holiday: celebration of the birthday of Benito Juarez, a famous Mexican president) traveling from the mountains back to Oaxaca, buying tickets to Puerto, and repacking...I think Bill will have to get a new suitcase...his has finally given up...We of course didn't yet know that Malia Obama was in Oaxaca too! We had an easy trip to Puerto, if you can call 7 hours of winding, narrow mountain roads easy. The earthquake happened about two hours into the trip, but we didn't notice anything. However, thinking back today, we realized that large number of small landslides on the road were probably provoked by the quake. There was an extra driver named Juan on the bus, who had to return a broken down bus Oaxaca after it was repaired (This would happen ... read more
We are fine...missed the earthquake completely!
Published: March 21st 2012North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Puerto EscondidoMarch 21st 2012
Hello Everyone, We left Oaxaca about two hours before the earthquake struck...we were in a small bus/van in the Sierra Sur, on winding roads with lots of landslide areas. No one on the bus knew about the earthquake....we found out when we got on our computers tonight! We're glad we weren't still in Oaxaca, since there have been numerous aftershocks...The quake was felt here too... More later.... Lynn and Bill... read more
March 8th 2012
After a day of fighting a losing battle with the sun and a day thereafter of hiding from it, we are spending our last day at Playa Zicatela half in the sun and half in the shade; life is full of compromising. We walked the beach this morning, before 10am, like true gringos should. It is now midday and we are relaxing in the shade. We will hit the beach again later this afternoon, in time to watch the sunset. This is truly a great place. Not too big, not too small, not overcrowded, and there is access to markets, internet, banks, food, shops, transportation. And, the view is outstanding, the food is great, the service is good, and the drinks are cold. We are glad to have found it now while it is what it ... read more
