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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Zicatela; the Mexican pipeline

Today we spent our first day on Zicatela beach. Zicatela is one of the most famous surfing beaches in the world. On any given day it is given the designation of 3rd or 4th "best" surfing beaches in the world, see the link to Mexican pipeline in my last posting. Zicatela is bohemia. Surfers dudes, dreadlocks, anything that would remind you of the bohemian life style you will find. The food on the boardwalk is pretty good, today Eric had an amazing mixed meat Buritto. Rice, meat, veggies and cheese with great home made salsa...mmm....



The most comfortable chairs in Mexico are on Zicatela, which will keep me coming back! Our asses suffer here in Mexico as most chairs are made of plastico. When NAFTA was signed, Mexico could finally get as much plastic as the rest of the world, and they love the stuff. Down the main streets, there are entire stores dedicated to plastic goods!



Right now, an American/Mexican team of people have set up shop for a skydiving experience, for $250.00 USD, you can tandem over Puerto Escondido and the ocean, and land on Zicatela beach. This has been going on for the entire time we have been here (13 days) but it looks like they were packing up today, so what a great day to finally be there to see them land.



Animals of all kinds roam free in Puerto Escondido, as I'm sure is the norm in all of Mexico, some are owned, others are simply survivors. We have adopted a survivor. "Gato", mexican for Cat, is the new van Sluys family member, she comes and goes completely on her own. Adrian said not to feed her or she'll keep coming back, I say who cares, we'll eventually leave. She can pretty much get into our house at will, we don't have a glass window or solid fitting door at all. Adrian thinks we should take it home for Sarah to take care of:) She's a little wild, she wants a pet, but she bites you if you do :( women!



Today she watched us Barbeque hamburgers on a REAL barbeque. We bought charcoal, or what they call carbon at the market. It was much easier to light than we thought, and it cooks even and hot. Next time we will try Mahi Mahi!

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