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Wed
11/02/11

Another Week in Sayulita

Another week, another bunch of sun, fun and food. We are now comfortable with buying food
off the local trucks that drive around Sayulita selling seafood, vegetables, or cooking gas. There
is room to negotiate but it feels wrong given how inexpensive and good the food is. Case in point -
I purchased 1kg of fresh jumbo shrimp for 150pesos - just over 12$ CAN. And they were HUGE!

I also have a bit of a crush on the local taco lady - 10p for a taco - although it has just risen to 12p

Sun
10/23/11

Sayulita Week One

Week 1 in Sayulita.

We have now been in Sayulita for one week. Our casa, Casa Namaste, has been very excellent.
It is located about 2 blocks from the zocola of town and is clean, breezy, has filtered
water and a great property manager who can also teach you to surf.

It has been hot, smoking hot. I have been melting daily. It's been a struggle to stay
hydrated enough in this heat. Then I saw the stories and postings from people back
home about how they are covered in snow. I now have a new perspective that says

Wed
10/19/11

Sayulita - 5 days late

We are finally in Sayulita.

We were supposed to be here on the 11th but that morphed into the 16th due to Hurricane Jova and some hastily rebooked flights. Alaska Airlines, the only airline that cancelled flights due to the hurricane, couldn't get us to Puerto Vallarta before Oct 22nd so we switched to American Airlines - saved $300 and over-nighted in Dallas - and arrived on the 16th. Happy happy.

And we finally have interweb. God, I was going into withdrawal here.

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