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...