What a day this Viernes turned out to be!!
We were up early and hit the road for Puerto Escondido. All about buying surf and boogie boards. Bexico took a Dramamine so her motion sickness was in check and we bombed West on Ruta 200. Ok, bombed on Ruta 200 means 70 km/hr.
Puerto is 110 km away, but it takes around 2 hours to get there. We passed through the one military checkpoint and stated we were headed to PE to venta uno surfboard. Probably incorrecto Espanol, but we were waved through.
Around 30 km away from Puerto, the traffic came to a standstill. We followed a passenger van up the wrong lane and managed to get to the front of the traffic jam, which was a 2 km drive.
We took these photos to explain what we encountered.
This is the view to the East, back to Huatulco.
This is the roadblock on the East side of the barra we were stopped at.
This is the view towards Puerto as well as the roadblock on the other side of the barra.
The villagers created the roadblocks because the government wants to expand the highway to 2 lanes of traffic in each direction. The story we heard was that the government is expropriating the property needed and haven’t paid any of the owners. We also heard the roadblock was in its 20th hour and may go one for days.
It did lead to a lot of people just hanging out.
These guys were taking a siesta under their truck. They saw me with the camera and asked me to take their photo. They spoke no Ingles, but we seemed to have a good chat and they were the ones who told us the roadblock could be on for days.
It did mean a lot of business for this entrepreneur who was selling bebidas and some comida.
We decided to turn around and head back to Huatulco and make a side trip to Santa Maria Huatulco first.
S.M. Huatulco is in the mountains and about 30 km away from La Crucecita. On the way there, we saw a group of hombres manually clearing the brush from the sides of the roads. Thirty degree plus heat and they are using machetes to clear the 6 feet from the side of the road…tough work.
Here are our S.M. Huatulco photos.
Selling pescado (fish) from the back of the truck.
A colorful arrangement of veggies.
A colorful arrangement of veggies.
Carniceria...foodsafe?
Senor selling vegetables.
Same hombre and his espousa.
Colorful rope found at a flower store.
Time for a siesta.
Delicious.
Hot chilies.
Not sure which style I will pick...I am leaning towards the one on the bottom row.
Candy store with pinatas hanging just below the sign.
$2 pesos for a bano/sanitario. This includes the papel hygenico you pick up before you enter.
These were slightly used. Maybe they are from the sanitarios above?
A picture of mi bonita nobia. No coincidence as to why her photo follows the last two.
Pollo store.
As per the signage, a entero (entire) pollo is only $60 pesos. In La Crucecita, we can get that price at Che, but at the local stands, it is $120-$140 pesos. Everything is more expensive in our small turista town.
Every town seems to have its own unique mode of transportation.
I had to include this photo.
It is a 11.8 kilo tub of Gigante brand manteca de cerdo....pig lard/fat. I m not sure what it's use really is, but Lalo told me I can request some of it on the special quesadillas he eats for desayunos. Yikes.
So after S.M. Huatulco, we came home and had our comida (lunch), followed by some alberca time and believe it or not...only my segundo (2nd) siesta since we moved here!!
Then it was off to Che for the weekends groceries. There Bexico bumped into a friend (and the friend's fiancee) from her yoga class. Seems Che is the place to bump into peeps. Che has tons of Navidad items out and we bought some small snow globes. We will be hunting down a tree soon...might be on our playa for December 25!!
Something nice happened as we were leaving Che. A Mexican gentleman caught us off guard by asking in Ingles, if we lived at Pacifico Condos and if we needed a ride home. Very friendly...and we are now being recognized as residentes vs turistas!! We said no thanks as we had the truck, but did stop and say hola to his amigo and the amigos perro (dog), Luna. Luna is one of those Australian dogs with the specific grey coats.
So we are back in the car and Bexico agrees it was very friendly and asks me if I asked for this hombre's name. Doph...I got the perros name and not the dudes. LOL...that is so Bubba. I was disappointed because learning names and meeting people is one of my priorities. I hope to see him around the condo soon and will make sure I do the formal introductions.
La cena was roti pollo...excellente comida!!
Then we heard a parade go by on Blvd Chahue so we went out to investigate. Sure enough there were marching bands and floats parading down Chahue. The floats were full of older school kids all in costumes ranging from rock and roll, hippies, peace niks and anti-gang themes. We don't know enough words to ask what the parade was about...more reasons to continue to take Espanol lessons and practice the language.
It is now 930pm here and I am about to post this long blog. I hope you all like the photos and it gives you a better idea about what life is like down here.
Manana? No big plans yet, but I will hit the gym, Bexico will work away on her career and maybe on Domingo we will hit La Bocana for some surfing and boogie boarding.
Puerto will have to wait, but maybe we will all go there when mi madre y padre are in town.
Have a great weekend.
Hasta luego!!
Same hombre and his espousa.
Colorful rope found at a flower store.
Time for a siesta.
Delicious.
Hot chilies.
Not sure which style I will pick...I am leaning towards the one on the bottom row.
Candy store with pinatas hanging just below the sign.
$2 pesos for a bano/sanitario. This includes the papel hygenico you pick up before you enter.
These were slightly used. Maybe they are from the sanitarios above?
A picture of mi bonita nobia. No coincidence as to why her photo follows the last two.
Pollo store.
As per the signage, a entero (entire) pollo is only $60 pesos. In La Crucecita, we can get that price at Che, but at the local stands, it is $120-$140 pesos. Everything is more expensive in our small turista town.
Every town seems to have its own unique mode of transportation.
I had to include this photo.
It is a 11.8 kilo tub of Gigante brand manteca de cerdo....pig lard/fat. I m not sure what it's use really is, but Lalo told me I can request some of it on the special quesadillas he eats for desayunos. Yikes.
So after S.M. Huatulco, we came home and had our comida (lunch), followed by some alberca time and believe it or not...only my segundo (2nd) siesta since we moved here!!
Then it was off to Che for the weekends groceries. There Bexico bumped into a friend (and the friend's fiancee) from her yoga class. Seems Che is the place to bump into peeps. Che has tons of Navidad items out and we bought some small snow globes. We will be hunting down a tree soon...might be on our playa for December 25!!
Something nice happened as we were leaving Che. A Mexican gentleman caught us off guard by asking in Ingles, if we lived at Pacifico Condos and if we needed a ride home. Very friendly...and we are now being recognized as residentes vs turistas!! We said no thanks as we had the truck, but did stop and say hola to his amigo and the amigos perro (dog), Luna. Luna is one of those Australian dogs with the specific grey coats.
So we are back in the car and Bexico agrees it was very friendly and asks me if I asked for this hombre's name. Doph...I got the perros name and not the dudes. LOL...that is so Bubba. I was disappointed because learning names and meeting people is one of my priorities. I hope to see him around the condo soon and will make sure I do the formal introductions.
La cena was roti pollo...excellente comida!!
Then we heard a parade go by on Blvd Chahue so we went out to investigate. Sure enough there were marching bands and floats parading down Chahue. The floats were full of older school kids all in costumes ranging from rock and roll, hippies, peace niks and anti-gang themes. We don't know enough words to ask what the parade was about...more reasons to continue to take Espanol lessons and practice the language.
It is now 930pm here and I am about to post this long blog. I hope you all like the photos and it gives you a better idea about what life is like down here.
Manana? No big plans yet, but I will hit the gym, Bexico will work away on her career and maybe on Domingo we will hit La Bocana for some surfing and boogie boarding.
Puerto will have to wait, but maybe we will all go there when mi madre y padre are in town.
Have a great weekend.
Hasta luego!!
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