Hanging Out

Trip Start Nov 2006
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Trip End Feb 2007


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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

We made it to Acapulco around 3:00 in the afternoon. I took a wrong turn and we ended up in some of the craziest traffic we have seen yet. Driving in this town is full on at this time of day. We managed to find our way back to the strip which runs along the beach, and started looking for places to stay that we could park our bikes. No luck, so we headed off the strip to see what we could find. The first place we stopped, we got directed to a house around the corner that might have a room to rent with safe parking for the bikes. As I came to a stop in the intersection, I lost my footing and my bike tipped over. Fortunately is wasn't one of the really busy intersections, although I still recieved plenty of attention. We looked around for the place we were told to check out, but didn't find anything. We must have looked lost, because a lady saw us and asked if we needed help. We told her what we were looking for and she had us wait a minute. When she came back out she introduced us to a Canadian fellow named Dan who now lives down there. Dan hooked us up with a fantastic place to stay, with a garage for our bikes. He also gave us the grand tour of downtown Acapulco and gave us some great lessons on staying out of trouble while in Mexico.

The ended up staying in Acapulco the next 3 days as it was raining like hell due to a tropical storm off the coast, plus Dan hooked us up with tickets to the Acapulco Symphony Orchestra.

On Friday, a friend of Dan's, Joe, who has been living down in Acapulco for over twenty years (from the states)spent the afternoon showing us the best way to get out of Acapulco, as the signs lead you a direction that is not necessarily the fastest. We were amazed at how cool everybody was, and how much time they took out of their day to make sure ours went better.
It was completely random hooking up with Dan and Joe but we couldn't have gotten luckier, or had a better time. Thanks Dan and Joe!

We moved on down the road Sunday and made it here to Puerto Escondido. We're told it is the surfing capitol of Mexico. When we arrived, the town was going nuts. Turned out to be a large surf competition, complete with fireworks, fashion show, rap band, rock band, and mariachi band. We were tired, but figured we should check the town out a bit more befor we left. Come to find out it slows WAY down once the Mexican holliday and surf comp were over, and is a wonderful place to hang out. We opted to stay one more day as we have our first flat tire to fix (Troy's), and a few maintenance things to take care of, and then we should be hitting the road in the morning, I think. This place is pretty sweet!

Tomorrow we will hopefully get to the Guatemalan Border, spend the night, and then on to Panajachel on Thursday.

Cheers!
Doug
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jstroop
jstroop on Nov 21, 2006 at 12:37PM

Great to hear from you!
Glad to hear you guys are doing okay and healthy. Sounds like you have visited some really neat places. Enjoy your trip! Not much going on here, raining in Boise, cold in Grangeville. The guys around here say hello, we check every day as to where you are. Good luck in Guatemala, and say hello to Denise for us. Also, cats are doing great, they like our new house, only one escape so far, the tuna can works great for capture. Take care Doug, love ya, Dad

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