Hotel Buena Vista Puerto Escondido

Wed 26 Aug 2009

Feeling a million times better this morning - YEAY!!!! Managed to sleep for the majority of the bus ride, feeling like a woman!!! I hate feeling ill.

We got off the bus and got hit by a wall of hot air. It´s unnatural how cold the buses are. We both had trousers, tshirts, hoodies, socks and the trusty blue blanket wrapped around us so coming off the bus it was like a striptease, who can get cool quicker?

Puerto Escondido, Pacific Coast, Mexico doireann_brian

... hitch, our total hooked up length is close to 45'!! At least we hinge in the middle!!!! Not sure we'll come back to Mexico with a big truck again!!! Our Garmin Street Pilot - which amazingly has all the major and some not so major roads in Mexico on it - has proved to be an invaluable navigating tool. On the screen we could see the coast getting close but we kept going up!!! As we were beginning to wonder what kind of water slide-like descent was in store for us, we topped out and with ...

... also not really able to go in the water but only lay in the hammock and feed the dog with coconuts which he really enjoyed. This was our experience in Puerto Escondido! It's a wanna be place with lots of tourism and in my opinion very few of good surf. There is a **** lot of really chilled out nice places with awesome people and wonderful waves! The board that got stolen was a Darcy 6 feet 4 inches, white red and black logo, tale is repaired, it has a right and ...

... Escondido, I hope to keep it to one blog.

Puerto Escondido is no. 16 out of 23 destinations and I must confess that I am getting a touch of writer’s fatigue. However, the last blog on Acapulco shows anything but writer’s fatigue. If anything, it may suffer from a bit of verbal diarrhea.

It was the construction of coastal highway 200 in the 1960’s that opened up this once isolated part of the Pacific Coast to surfers ...

... of the road it was supposed to be on. Interesting. That was probably because, as we later discovered, while the streets have names on the map, they don't on the road. There is maybe one road sign in all of P.E. which isn't helpful when trying to find your way around. Searching throughout the town, and after about 8 hours of driving, Andrew's depth perception became a bit askew and pulling into a left turn lane, we scraped the side of an old Mexican truck. Most ...

... and check in for the night, leaving a deposit as well which gives us an inclination that this hotel must have regular problems. The air-con blows warm air and the fan does little to abate the heat but it's a bed and we can lie flat which is all we care about. Around 3am we're awoken to banging and crashing and pounding of doors by drunken revelers returning from a night on the booze although it sounds like they are ...

... 4 fish special at one of the local restaurants. We didn't spend much time at the Neptuno trailer park where we stayed as it was a dustbowl and we had this old drunk guy who annoyed us every time he saw us. His grandkids that he was babysitting were cute though. You should have seen how jealous Emily got when Mum put the little girl on her lap. We packed up and cleared out early after staying 2 nights headed for Acapulco. Hasta Luega Amigos, Enjoy the slideshow, McGregors-6

... snack and headed back to the hotel.  Down at CoCo's, Islie ended up having a 2.5 hour nap.  She was pretty pooped from a couple of busy days.   While Islie slept in her hammock, Kai and I took turns body surfing with Gene and Leanne.  What a blast!!!  I can't believe it took us 4 days to discover how awesome our own beach was.   In the evening ...

... with my little host sister Pachi. (That's her nickname. Her real name is María Paz, and Pachi comes from her middle name). We went out to pretty much the only place open on Monday nights and danced a bit and enjoyed ourselves, but Becky and I decided to leave pretty soon because we had to wake up super early to leave for the clinic in the morning. But I couldn't sleep which is why I'm posting now! Sheiph

... make me say "Ooh-ah". Puerto Escondido was this something. Take me to the February sun in Puerto Oh oh oh Take me where the February sun gon' treat me So right Although mine and Nath's motto by the end of our weekend was "we're not here to make friends" (after almost everybody you meet seems to want to sell you something, the familiarity of pre-discovered friends is rather welcoming) I can safely say that Puerto Escondido, in the state of Oaxaca in the ...