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Posted by David(in Bellingham) from 12.129.7.100 (mx1.mossadams.com) on miércoles, febrero 05, 2003 at 20:05:37 :
Day 9 –
After the previous night’s drinking activities, I was happy to be able to sleep in, so I didn’t get up until about 10:00. I wasn’t sure what my friends Mark and Kait were going to do, and they weren’t up yet, so I decided I was due for a beach day. (As a side note, I found out the next day that Mark and Kait ended up a Playa Larga too about two restaurants down the beach)
When I’m ready to hang out at the beach all day, I like to head down to Playa Larga. It’s never as crowded as the beaches in town, it’s an ocean beach so it has better waves, but it’s much easier to get to than La Barra de Potosi or Troncones. In my opinion, it’s the best beach day trip in the area.
When I’m ready to go, I jump in a cab and start haggling over the fare. When I’m going to Playa Larga from Centro in Zihuat, I’m usually happy if I can get the fare down to $60 pesos. Today we settle on $50 pesos and we head out. If you know when you want to head back to town, you can make arrangements for the cab to come back and pick you up. Otherwise, you’ll have to get someone at one of the restaurants to call a cab for you when you’re ready to leave, or just hitch a ride back to town.
I hang out at the restaurant Cuatro Hermanos (4 Brothers) when I’m at Playa Larga. Armando the owner always takes great care of me. Today, I have a few glasses of juice (to rehydrate from the previous night’s drinking) and read a book under a palapa.
The waves looked pretty calm today (3 to 5 feet), but they’re big enough to ride, so I decided to do some bodysurfing for a while. I haven’t found any truly great bodysurfing beaches in the Zihuat area, but you can usually catch some decent rides at Playa Larga. The waves here do tend to slide right over without much of a curl, so you do need some experience with these type of waves to keep from getting “crunched”(landing head first on the beach). Today I’m getting a pretty consistent ride, but nothing spectacular.
After the body surfing, I’m ready for some lunch. Cuatro Hermanos serves the best pozole in the are, but they still only serve it on the traditional day (Thursday). Today I decided on the seafood stew. This is a great meal, and the stew has fresh snapper, sailfish, octopus, shrimp, squid, and a couple of other types of fish and shellfish that I couldn’t identify. This would be a great dish for two people to split. I ate for about an hour and half, and I only finished a little over half of what they served me. This is the most expensive item on the menu at $65 pesos. Armando the owner offered me some mescal to aid in digestions (on the house of course). I took it, because I like Senor Gunnysack’s mescal, but I’m still not convinced that it actually helps with digestion.
I spent the rest of the day hanging out, reading, occasionally bodysurfing, having a few beers, and just relaxing.
At about 5:00, I decided to head for home. I asked them to call a cab for me, and it took about 10 minutes to arrive. In the past, some of my friends have gotten a ride back to Zihuat in the back of Armando’s pick-up, so you could probably ask about that too.
At home, after a siesta, I got cleaned up and headed out for the night. Since I didn’t have fresh caught fish to eat tonight, I decided to head for one of my favorite taco stands. The place is called Taquaria los Paisanos, and it’s just down the street from Paccalo’s. It’s a little hole-in-the wall place that has a couple of tables, but most people just stand around on the sidewalk in front of the place and eat. Tonight it’s pretty busy, and it takes me about 10 minutes of standing in the crowd to get my order in for 6 tacos de cabeza. The tacos are excellent, as always, and I can barely fishing all six, which cost about 20 pesos.
After dinner, I head back up the street, and cruise through Paccalo’s to Florian’s. It’s a pretty slow night, so I end up playing backgammon w/ Florian until closing time.
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