Posada Castillo Oasis
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San Agustinillo, Oaxaca - a great beach
What a week. Not a lot to report as most of it was spent sitting by the beach in the shade whiling away the hours and days. However as I am sure you are aware by now...there is always something for me to say...... We stayed in a place called Bambu, a small collection of cabañas right on the beach. From my bed, with the doors open, I could see the beautiful blue of the pacific. The beach was practically deserted, a kilometre long stretch of golden sand all ...
The craziest fancy dress party ever.
... The one costume that is unique to this place, was trousers and coats covered with little steel bells (like the one you would find on a cats collar). I mean covered, with at least 200 of them, this made the costume weigh an absolute tonne. They wearer would also sport a wrestling type mask, these were the hardcore. They simply jumped up and down, ringing, donging and dinging all night! But then I realised some of the smaller people in these costumes were not dwarves, oh no! ...
Market-going
... bill – 26 pesos, or US$2. It had been satisfying on all counts.
Now, to find my way back to the tortillaria. With nothing to go on, and not trusting my ability to ask directions back to where I had come in, I decided to just walk in a straight line, exit the market, and walk around the outside until I came to my starting point. It worked like a charm. Along the way, I picked up some mandarin oranges, some limestone (used ...
My first 7K(-ish) in Mexico
... Mexicans take their sound systems very seriously.
Butterflies in my stomach – after all, I was representing not only the Big Sky Distance Project, but all of the United States – I began my warm-up thirty minutes before race time. After a stop in the bathroom (I’m glad I had brought my own toilet paper, as the bathroom had none), I headed to the starting line five minutes before 9am. Glancing around, I saw many ...
Weekend Fun
... 8220;Tree of Life”, according to Wikipedia, this tree has the “stoutest trunk of any tree in the world” and has been alive over 2,000 years, withstanding the Spanish conquest and all the human struggles that ensued. Pretty cool.
On Sunday, I ran my first road race in Mexico (more on that to come). On the way home, we stopped off at a grocery store and were surprised to see ...
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