Month: June 2014

Not much to report today. We drove up the coast to Ixtapa which is a planned resort community right next to Zihuatenejo. Saw about a million coconut trees and some beautiful coastline.

The owner of the place we stayed in Puerto Escondido asked where we were headed next. When Duke said Acapulco she said there are 150 topes (speed bumps) between Puerto Escondido and Acapulco. So we counted. Actually there were 240 topes on our route! So although it was not a long distance – 248 miles, it took is about 7 hours.

Acapulco is in a beautiful setting and a stunning harbor. We are staying
at Las Brisas, a hotel built into a cliff on the south side of the harbor. It was built in the 50s. A very elegant pink and white theme. Any time we want to get up or down the mountain we call and a pink and white jeep appears to whisk us away. It is an amazing place. We swam in the pool we share with one other room. Them we had drinks at the sunset bar at the top of the mountain. The sunset wasn’t much but the view was stunning!

We ate dinner on a terrace overlooking the city. The service and food were both great and the view of the city, the nice breeze and the piano player made it a perfect evening.

Another wonderful lazy day in Puerto Escondido. We’ve both been doing a lot of reading on this trip. I’ve read two Louise Penny murder mysteries, a very funny romantic comedy called The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, and right now I’m reading both The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver and Arundel by Kenneth Roberts both of which I’m enjoying very much.

Today we had breakfast again at Cafecita our favorite spot. After a swim in the pool and some reading we checked out the surfing beach. Tonight we had a fish dinner again and watched the moon come up and some fishing boats go out. Tomorrow we are off to Acapulco.

Puerto Escondido is a lovely spot! We relaxed today. Walked down to breakfast at Cafecita where we had dinner last night. I had a big bowl of fruit with granola and yogurt. Duke had French toast and fruit.

We talked to an American guy who is retired military and has been traveling around Central America looking for a place to settle. He said he was going to look at houses today.

We spent the morning reading. Around noon we headed down to a different beach from yesterday. We swam and had beer and some shrimp tostadas for lunch.

When it got warmer we headed back up to where we are staying and cooled off in the pool.

Tonight we went down to the center of town and had a wonderful dinner overlooking the beach as the full moon came up!

This morning before we left Bahias de Huatulco we went for a short walk on the beach to celebrate being on the Pacific and the warm weather.

Then we got in the car and drove about two hours up the coast to Puerto Escondido. We are staying in a lovely place with high ceilings, ceiling fans and working air conditioning! There is a pool right outside out door and the beach is about four blocks away.

As soon as we got here we headed down to the beach. We sat under a palapa (thatched-roof sun umbrella), had some cold beer, went swimming, had some more bear, and went swimming again. About four we came back up to our place and I tried out the pool. It was wonderful!

For dinner we had another great fish dinner while sitting outside.

Duke visited Puerto Escondido back in the 1980s. It was much, much smaller. There was an old aerial photo of Puerto Escondido on the wall at the restaurant. When Duke asked when it was taken the waiter said it was taken around 1975. Duke commented on the fact that he flew in here on a DC3 once back then and the waiter told us that where we were sitting used to be the airport!!