Too funny ...

We might be a little behind the news here ... but this is too funny. We're laughing our asses off, thanks Steve!! That time of the month? Have no fear, the iPad's here!

Greetings from Guanajuato. It's been a while :) We have had incredibly unreliable wireless connections over the past few weeks hence the lack of posts, but hopefully, more regular posting to resume soon. We'll be here in Guanajuato till the end of the week. It's cold at night, hot in the day and gorgeous all the time. Salud!

Off topic: Texans are idiots

The sole purpose of SuperFreakonomics according to the Texas Dept of Criminal Justice. Seriously, don't they have better things to do than to pick on a poor sequel?

Via Anti-Dismal

Sorry about the hiatus from posting. Regular trip posts to resume shortly.

Adios, La Paz!

We leave La Paz later this afternoon for Mazatlan. We hope to make it to Tepic tonight (we will be -- again hopefully -- staying at the Hotel Tepic) before leaving for Los Ayala on Sunday morning. We don't have any reservations, so plans might change, but we hope to get checked into Casa Linda before the Therriens, Altmannshofers, Austins and Dunaways do. :) Can't wait to see yall ...

School's out!

The whole reason why we've spent so much time here in La Paz is because we enrolled in a Spanish immersion course with CICC La Paz. 5 hours of lessons a day and full immersion with our homestay family means you learn a lot, fast. We'd like to say muchas gracias to our maestros Argelia, Omar and Maricarmen -- we couldn't have done it without you!

 

 

Fat-tastic

For all mis foodie amigos ...

Chicharron (crispy pork skin) the size of dinner plates


Huge-ass wheels of local cheese ($5/kg ... you have to be kidding)
 

I'm so not losing weight on this trip. Must. Run. More.

Muy refrescante!

Despite the testicle-shrinking 23C water temps, last weekend's trip through Cabo Pulmo and the island of Espiritu Santo was well worth the shivering and the swearing.

On Friday night, we drove out from La Paz down to Cabo Pulmo, in what the guidebook promised was a 2 hour drive, but failed to mention the timing was only achievable if a) you didn't try to leave La Paz during rush hour and b) you knew the roads. Lucky for us, around 45 minutes into the drive as we finally left the big-box stores of suburban La Paz behind us, we found a local driver to tailgate. This meant we could keep our 100kph pace through some pretty twisty mountain roads and still manage to avoid all cows, potholes and speedbumps along the way.

Now, Cabo Pulmo (Pop: 52) feels like it's at the end of the world -- the last 10k of the drive was on gravel/dirt road (Troy: To hell with this, we're in a rental car! Wheeeee!), everything there is solar-powered, there are no signs, nothing ...but still the menu is in US$ (with an outrageous peso conversion) and everything costs twice as much. *sigh*

The diving was nothing to shout about -- though I did get a cute shot of a very curious blenny -- and I think it was mostly due to the wintry conditions. Strong winds all week meant a bit of a swell and pretty yucky viz underwater. Maybe a return trip in summer for the schooling manta rays, hammerheads, whales, whalesharks, bass the size of cars etc etc .... For all we knew, they were right there with us on the dive, it's just that we couldn't see them :p

On Sunday, we headed out on a day trip from La Paz to the island of Espirtu Santo to snorkel with the sealions. Now, that was well worth the 700 pesos and the frigid water -- 3mm suits just don't quite cut it, especially when the lobos de marinos keep trying to give you lovebites.

After the amorous sea lions, we managed to take in a leisurely lunch and siesta on a beautiful beach right around the corner, before another snorkel (stargazers and jellyfish!) and a fantastic ride home in the company of leaping mobula rays (sorry, no pics :( ) and two humpback whales (Reasons 13 through to infinity to love Baja California). Does anyone want to buy us a boat?