Acapulco to Puerto Escondido

Still trying hard to catch up on getting some pictures posted. These go back to some time in Acapulco where we toured Fuerte San Diego, a fort with great views of the entire bay, stopped into a mask museum with masks from around the world and saw the infamous cliff divers just after sunset.

A self-guided tour through the city took us the long but defintely the most scenic way around...

Diego Rivera spent the last years of his life on this quiet block in the hills of Acapulco where he worked on these larger than life mosaics. We thought we would never find them as we wondered the streets of the city and people in the neighborhood couldn´t even tell us where they were because they didn´t know they existed. Getting directions for anything around Mexico is always a crap shoot.

After a sad departure from Matt and Norah at the Acapulco airport, we stayed a couple more days and then took off for Puerto Escondido. We really liked the town itself, but were not quite ready to tackle the Mexican Pipeline with our surfing skills. So we took advantage of some of the other things the town had to offer like an air-conditioned movie theater with only nine seats...and free popcorn! We saw a 1973 classic starring Mr. Jimmy Cliff. The whole night was pretty entertaining.

This spot was just down the block from where we camped in Pto. Escondido and was the most picturesque spot for every sunset. You can kind of make out the lighthouse that is just to the left of the sun.

Where we are now...We´ve left the inland mountains (more about this part of the trip to come) and have been back on the coast in a spot called La Ticla for the last five days. We just parted from our caravanning ways with Tiffany and Danny this morning. They are headed back to the states in the next week. And we are headed South again! Not too sure where yet, but will make our way slowly down the coast this time...in search of waves....and that perfect Mexican coastline.

Enjoy the rest of the winter for us...

We got some more photos for youts!!!

Here is a picture of Ang in the infamous mask museum of Acapulco, featuring masks from Mexico and around the world. We would have loved to run around with these on and yell boogy woogy to some of the Mexicans who are looking at us like they have never seen a gringo. Most of the looks are friendly but sometimes it feels otherwise. So we just give em a big smile and say Hola, Que Tal.

Ahhhh! The mexican wrestlers. We went to A mexi wrestling match in Zihuat. The only thing we can say about this night is that if you have never been to a match, make it a point to do so when you can. You will never see anything like it again. Front row is best!!! Make sure you tip the guy with the coldest Modelos and he will make sure that your beer doesn´t get below half full if you want. We only had a few but others where having one.

They would yell to the crowd if you didn´t move fast enough. Move it buddy, Move it!!! Needless to say white plastic chairs went flying and people running in all directions. I am still trying to pull a picture from email that Beechinor got with the wrestler on top of a guy in the crowd that didn´t move fast enough. Anyone? Anyone?

From the top ropes!! Some of the moves that these guys had in there bag of tricks was really cool. Very impressed by the showmanship these guys have. From comidy to dropping the house!

And ohh yeah. Don´t forget about souvys!!! Everyone needs one of these and some popcorn. We´re gonna get you sucka!! We will try to get a few more photos up on the blog because they are some goodies.

Picture Re-cap

Here are a few more pictures from our trip so far. The one above is from Valentine´s Day as we were living the high life in Zihuat, treating ourselves to a day of amazing food in the city. Started with brunch at this seaside restaurant on Playa la Ropa...

And finished the evening with a fresh tuna dinner at a restaurant directly beside a crocodile lagoon, where we saw this 10 footer swim buy as we ate crepes for desert...

These are back from Saladita when we were challenged to a game of soccer by a group of 10 year olds. Whew, it didn´t take long for us to realize how out of shape we were and how well Mexican kids can play futbol. The stakes were set as winners take all...our Superman piñata and a bunch of stickers. As you can see the kids claimed victory over the gringos. And we walked around pretty stiff for a few days.

The kids hung around the rest of the day and started making themselves at home around the van...

We´ve Moved!

Happy Semana Santa!

Even though our original plan was to be in La Saladita for at least a month, we had an offer we couldn´t refuse...to CARAVAN!! We met a great couple at the beach, Tiffany and Danny, and after getting to know them in Saladita decided to travel inland together. We were drawn by the chance to be a part of some of the celebration surrounding Semana Santa, the Mexican Holy Week that begins today on Palm Sunday and goes through Easter. A smaller mountain town called Uruapan is where we are now calling home. We´ve been here three nights now and are around town today soaking up the excitement around multiple street processions of indigenious people in beautifully colored costumes and traditional dress, that will kick off the weeklong celebration.

From here we are planning to visit a volcano just outside of the city that buried two villages back in the 1940´s. Then are headed to a town called Paracho that is world renowned for making stringed instruments. We are possibly in the market for a Mexican guitar, one more thing for us to learn along the way...

Missing everyone,
The Eagles

Lovin´ La Saladita

Hi All,

Just want to say a quick hello! We are in town for an afternoon of taking care of business and re-stocking. We are completely removed from all communications on our quiet little beach so have lots to do on a trip into Zihuat.

The beach at La Saladita is treating us very well. We´ve been getting in the water almost everyday to work on our surfing and have been trying to work on some Spanish skills with some of the locals. Have met some great new people that were in camp for the last week. We all got together for a oceanside potluck one night, followed by a piñata celebration and bonfire complete with roasted marshmallows. Felt just like home and Taco Tuesday!

Will get some more pictures up soon.

Much love,
Blake and Angie