Have Fan, Will Travel

Well it's time to say: Bye Bye Bucerias. We've had an awesome time here, made some connections and Karlie even got to teach some yoga. Now we're heading onward south to Melaque and Barra de Navidad. This area is hard to leave y'all. Diversity, beauty, surf, it's got it all.

We've officially been in Mexico for longer than a while which has been made evident now since we realized that the "clink, kink, chink" sound of hammer on concrete has become regular ol' background noise.

Here are some observations we'd like to share about living in one Mexican town for a while:
-big surf or a competition takes precedence over anything else(work, meals, sleep...whatever)
-All cars seem to be for sale
-NOTHING here is consistent--prices,schedules,public phones...ANY of these things can change at ANYTIME
-Constructions workers daily schedule looks like this: 1.work
2.eat, drink beers, nap
3.work while drinking beers if
it can be done while simoultaneously
starting at gringa tourists
-Traffic rules don't really exist. It's every driver for hisself!

Yelapa(A vacation from our travels)

We spent one great day and night in Yelapa:a coastal, hilly, teeny town divided by a river and pretty remote(boat access only). There are no motor vehicles here so its a true "getaway" destination particularly while being here in Mexico where things are really noisy. It's quiet, with NOTHING happening and far from city lights for fabulous star gazing. Quaint alleyways which are the alternative to roads and trails that look very much like the barton creek greenbelt leading to a waterfall.

Throwing rocks at bottles

So we are still hangin' in Bucerias and it is quite chill, lots of canadian and american retirees, but less tourists than Sayulita, this place is a real mexican town. We went back to Sayulita for a fair they had where there were more bars than rides...something for the parents to do! The best was a game where you throw rocks at bottles and you win beer, so great. The other cool winnings, from a dart game,were a bucket full of toilet paper, ramen, cookies, cooking oil,etc..... so useful! Who needs cute stuffed animals when you can get drunk, fry something, and wipe your ass? It went on for like 2 weeks and was a total riot, lemme tell ya.
We've had some difficulty posting photos and videos, but we'll try when we have a solid connection. Currently, the closest bar to the house is an Irish bar, its like a real bar that has guiness and expensive, very dangerous to the budget, but they have free wi-fi and a good happy hour. The weather has been Austin like, no rain this time of year though, and the waves were supposed to be huge the last couple of days, but it seemed typical, we are beginners anyway. We've been getting worked by them nonetheless. We went to Puerto Vallarta to "party" last saturday and it is pretty cool for a city, probably the best city of its size on the pacific. It has a great boardwalk, cool plazas, and is very gay friendly. We will be here during spring break and were toying with the idea of checking out the mayhem and laughing at piss drunk 18 yr. olds. We'll probably be with some old folks though, they start drinking early too.