Flat Tire on the side of the Mexican Highway

Yesterday we headed to Puerto Escondido to spend the day at Playa Carrizalillo. The day was spent lazing in comfy loungers with actual cushions! The food and beer were more costly by far then the beach palapas in Puerto Angel area, but we enjoyed the great swimming in the sheltered bay. When I was laying in the sand I noticed a ring around the sun, anyone seen such a thing??

We had enough so we headed to our favorite shopping area, the Adoquin, and looked around. We stopped at a nice bar, I had a sangria and Adrian had a margarita.

After we had our fill of shopping and bought nothing, we headed to El Nene for supper, it was excellent! I had a very thin cut piece of beef grilled with garlic and butter, while Adrian had the Chipotle Chicken, which he has had before here, he even got the cook to give him the recipe...like Adrian would cook!

Heading home it was dark, so Adrian always drives very cautiously on the highway, but with the rubber on the bottom of this rental car tires, there was nothing he could do, we had a blow out. Lucky for us, the nearest turn off was to a very small and virtually uninhabited bar/restaurant. The young people there were so  helpful! One young fellow was especially helpful, while Adrian was using the jack,  he was unscrewing the nuts, but unfortunately, the spare was flat! Not to be discouraged, they convinced an older gentlemen who arrived to take the tire, Adrian and the good Samaritan to the local "Vulcanator" a shop where they charged 10 pesos to fill it up with air.

I stayed behind at the bar, I never for one minute felt unsafe. These were just good people trying to help us out. Not one word of english from them, not much spanish from us, yet we were able to get across how much we appreciated their help. Good people exist everywhere.

Now it's time to put some more karma into the karma bank, we used some last night!

Adios Amigos and Amigas!