Last of Our Mexico Daze

We're winding up our time in Mexico, let's see it's been about 2 years that we have been enjoying the sites, sounds, tastes and smells of Mexico.





We have been doing plenty of traveling since February. We arrived in Huatulco early February to Marina Chaque, having sailed down from Zihuatenejo and some other small anchorages. Marina Chaque is a nice place where we were able to meet or reacquaint

ourselves with other cruisers. We took an inland trip to Oaxaca. Oaxaca was great, it has it all, night life, art, archeology, politics, Monte Alban ruins, restaurants, cobble stone streets, street artists,crafts (many from Guatemala) and musicians. We took a room close to the central plaza so we were never too far from the festivities that took place around Valentine's Day. There were balloon vendors who had so many balloons that I couldn't figure out how they stayed grounded.

We went to our first Mayan ruins of our trip, Monte Alban, a strategic site high above the neighboring towns. It gave me a taste to see more which we will as we head south. We took a tour to see where and how the black clay pots are made and also a place where they make those wildly painted phantasmagorical mystical wooden figurines. We're now familiar with the different foods of this region; tlayudas are huge tortillas that are spread with black beans and cheese or just about anything else that is handy. As I already said Oaxaca had it all, I loved it, the high altitude makes for cool wonderful weather, a change from the heat of Huatulco. I recommend Oaxaca for the next time you think you'd like to venture into Mexico.

We did take another side trip, one I've been dreaming of for so very long but I'll tell you about that sometime soon when I have adsorbed it all myself.