☀ MEXICO ☀

Hey

Not long left here now :( we get home on the 9th of July. Sam has a really bad ear infection so we havent been surfing in a couple of days which sucks. We went out on a fishing charter, didnt catch anything but still had a good time.
Here are some pictures.


The bay that we left from for fishing.


Our fishing boat.


The owners of the hotels dog Bali. She sneaks into our room when we are by the pool and steals food scraps from our bin.


Along the front.


Sunset at Zicatela.


Our favourite burger joint.

Puerto Escondido

Hi,

The first few days here have been awesome. our hotel is pretty much full with Aussies and a few Yanks. The weather is hot, similar to Bali but maybe even a touch hotter, you cant go down to the beach in the middle of the day because you will come back looking like a busted cheerio. The water is the warmest water ever, its actually a bit to warm.

The town seems safe, but we have heard a few stories so we still have to be careful walking around at night etc. All the Locals are super friendly and most speak no english and we speak no spanish so it is still interesting ordering food and stuff. The only things I know is ," keysera burrito con carne porfavour" which is " id like a beef burrito please" and " dos cervesa porfavor" which is " 2 beers please". But we have a phrase book and want to get better.

The food is really cheap and really good, you can get a meal with drinks and whatever and its usually about $5 Au each.

I had trouble getting a decent board for cheap. All the second hand ones were cheap but most had been boken about 6 times and the new board were like $600 US. I eventually found a new board at a pretty decent price.

Leah was hungover yesterday so A few other dudes and I hired a car and went 2.5 hours south to a place called Barra De La Cruz, which is where they had the Rip Curl Search Contest a few years ago. We got fun overhead waves and hardly anyone out. Its similar to the Superbank I guess.

Leah is going to get a surfboard or a bodyboard today so she can get some waves out the front.

Heres some of the pics so far:

Barra De La Cruz, really fun day.


This is the view from the top balcony of our hotel. Looking down at MexPipe yesterday morning
Its pretty solid. Not many guys getting the good ones.
Mexpipe. The wave is straighter than what i thought it would be. Need to get some fitness back
before getting out there.


Looking north from the top of the hotel.


This is our room.


hotel pool area.

New York and Mexico

Hi,

Been pretty busy lately, had some trouble selling the car and we ended up spending 5 days in Calgary because it was a long weekend and we couldnt get rid of the car. Tuesday came quickly and we offloaded the car as quickly as we could. A nice bearded lady in a pawn shop took the car off our hands for $700. It was sad to see it go but pretty exciting to start the next leg of our trip.

After the car was gone we booked flights to New York and left the following morning. On arrival we got an airport transfer with the crziest driver in all New York City, a little old italian man who was hooning everywhere while listening to his opera and talking on his phone, it was a fun ride but good to get to Manhattan alive.Our hostel was right in the middle of Manhattan, about a 5 minute walk to Times Square.

We did alot of touristy stuff in NY; Walked through central park a few times which was really great park, without it New York City wouldnt be so great. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Modern Museum of Art and The Museum of Natural History. The best was MOMA , the natural history museum was cool but there were annoying pricks everywhere. We went up the top of the Rockefeller Center one day which had good views of Central Park and the City , and we went up the Empire State Building late one night which was really good.

The best thing we did in NY was the Broadway show we saw. It starred Christopher Walken and was called " A Behanding in Spokane". Its a black comedy about a man who gets his hand chopped off by some no good men who then take his hand and wave goodbye to him with it. The handless man then spends the next 47 years of his life trying to track down his hand. It sounds a bit strange but it was so funny.

A week was definitely long enough in New York, it is a great city but i could never live there. Its just to busy, im sure people have nervous breakdowns going down to get the paper in the morning.

5am yesterday we started our journey to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. We arrived this morning at 9am or so, it took about 28 hours all up which was brutal, but this place seems awesome so far and were looking forward to spending the next month here just chilling out.

here are some snaps of NYC:

View from up the top of the Empire State Building


Cant remember the name of this bridge, there are too many.


We did a cruise, this is the view back to NYC


Some statue, think its the statue of david.


Aircraft Carrier, that yellow thing hanging off the sky is a space capsule.


2 Machine Gun Boats protected the aircraft carrier at all times


View from the top of the Rockefeller Centre.


Looking down at Central Park from the top of the 'Rock'


Leah enjoying a some sort of circle shaped italian food that they cut into wedges.


This dudes bubbles were one of the highlights on NYC


In Central Park


Sccchhhhtickk Bawwl in the Park.