Day 32

Day 32  11/27/2021

Odometer  27,395 – 27,415 —— 20 Miles  (4,705 Miles Total)

Puerto Escondido

We woke up pretty early to get a full beach day in. Lilly has a flight out on Tuesday which I’m begging her to change until Wednesday so we can spend an extra day in Puerto Escondido so so have time for a hike in this huge gorge on Monday and Tuesday. We were eating breakfast by 8am at this lovely little cafe by the beach and on the beach before 9am. We found this cool little cove down the block from our hotel room where the water was super calm. We dropped the towels down, I lathered up in sunscreen and that was pretty much our day until 3pm.

Lilly found a guy selling fresh cold coconuts for 50 pesos each. These coconuts must have have 1.5 liters of coconut water in them as they were the size of a huge pumpkin. I can’t believe how cheap they were. We brought the first ones back to throw out as we were going to order a second round and they chopped them up for us and fed us the meat from the inside. The sun was so strong and the water was so clear it was perfect.

We were waiting for our friends Tom and Sasha to land from Oaxaca. They found a guy who owned a Cessna 182 to fly them from Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido for a few hundred American which wasn’t a bad deal considering the only other way for them to get there was a overnight 10-12 hour bus ride through the twisty roads we took. We got word that they didnt crash in the mountains so we shot over to their side of town to hang with them. We ate some delicious food, my stomach and Sashas stomachs were killing us but Toms and Lillys were fine. Bastards.

As usual my stomach and jaws hurt from smiling and laughing so much just chatting with them. We went for a long swim, body surfed a few waves in and watched the sunset. We went back to the hotel to shower and get ready for some Peruvian restaurant they heard great things about. of course there was a line of about 20 people outside of the restaurant but we waited to get a table and my god was it worth it!

We got 5 dishes of ceviche, tuna tartar, a solid chunk of seared blackfish and a bunch of mezcal sours (they are my new favorite drink by far). This restaurant was so much fun. The ground of the restaurant was just dirt, the waiters and waitresses and anyone that worked there were barefoot. They had some lovely music playing and at any point the waiters would just grab a girl from a table they were waiting and dance with them in the middle of the restaurant. People were also dancing all over the restaurant. Tom made friends with a group from Turkey residing in San Francisco now and they started a dance train where pretty much 25-30 people from the restaurant joined in. The energy this place has was incredible I just never wanted to leave. It was one of the best nights of the trip for sure with the energy! I danced for the third time in my life and I wasn’t even that drunk! We just hung out at the restaurant ordering more drinks until about midnight and we parted ways. I was so sad to leave them and Puerto!

I told them before I left that I was only a month into my trip and they were my favorite couple ill probably meet on my whole trip. I don’t see anyone being able to top them! Sasha and Tom if you’re reading this you guys are so much fun and have the best energy. You’re a pure comedy show. I love you two!

Days and nights like these are what makes me want to do this forever. Those days of anxiety about traveling and everything I was worried about are completely gone and they will not be coming back at all on this trip. While we were sitting on the beach and at dinner I said to them this is what life is about. I don’t understand how people can be stuck in New York traffic for hours in the morning and evening just working to pay for rent, buy things on amazon and be stuck in their routine. It made me really sad to think about all my friends at home doing the same old thing instead of being here in Puerto dancing their night away drinking mezcal sours and eating seared blackfish after a long day of laying on the beach in 95 degree weather with the only worry for the day was making sure you have enough sunscreen on. Today makes me want to stay on the road for years. What am I going to go back home for? Work, cold weather, New York traffic. Nothings going to change back there. Life is great down here. Maybe I’ll buy an apartment down here and live the good life like everyone else. Walking around barefoot all day long with a surfboard strapped to the side of my motorcycle soaking in the sun. It doesn’t sound like a bad life at all. I think the locals here have it all figured out.