After posting the blog last night, we took some photos of the night sky. I did a timelapse as well, but below is a photo taken from my cellphone.
We were woken by the sun coming into our windows and had cheese omelettes for breakfast. Then we went for a walk down to the beach. It is quite an expanse with no one on it. It doesn’t appear that anyone else staying at the casitas has any desire to see the beach. I always find that intriguing. You come all this way to be close to the ocean, and most people never leave the pool. We live within a mile of the beach in Los Angeles, but I still wouldn’t miss out on the opportunity to be close to the waves and the rich blue waters.
After our stroll on the beach, we relaxed a bit in our casita, which tends to be a bit warm and airless, so we soon parted and headed into town, about a ten minute drive away.
After parking on the street, we walked around under the hot sun. There were some shops open, but the bakery we were hoping to visit was closed on Wednesdays. Does our bad luck ever end? Obviously we will be back tomorrow. In the meantime, I struck a compromise by getting a tres leches coconut cake at a different panadería.
We zig-zagged around the rest of town, but the heat and the sun was making us both rather sleepy. Most places tend not to have air conditioning in this area, which is problematic when the average daily high temperature seems to be around 90 degrees. Related to that, we are here in the low season, so a lot of restaurants aren’t open except for the ones that tend to be more “local.” This is fine. I suppose it’s like going to Palm Springs in the summer. Everything is closed until the snowbirds start turning up. A lot of things appear to be opening at the end of this month.
We returned to our casita to relax by the pool for a spell. I feel like we were busy today, and yet didn’t seem to actually do anything. It’s fascinating, really. The mosquitoes really started attacking me after about an hour or so. That is something I hadn’t expected by coming to this desert climate on the coast. I wouldn’t have thought there was enough standing water to support their lives, but I have about twenty bites on my ankles and feet to prove otherwise. We had intended to go back to Five Tacos and a Beer for dinner. It has predictably reliable offerings, but they were closed! What is this madness?!
We ended up driving for about 20 minutes, including some stretches of unpaved road to reach a farm-to-table restaurant called Hierbabuena. I suppose it would have been prudent to order something with lots of vegetables and offerings from the garden, but we both ended up getting pizzas. Five Tacos and a Beer (mistakenly referred to as Five Beers and a Taco by me earlier today) is supposed to be open tomorrow, and both of us look forward to the casual, no frills atmosphere of having tacos and beers.
We drove back in the dark, which was a unique experience. It is shocking how dark it gets when there are no street lights alongside the road. Don’t worry. We were safe and drove at an appropriate speed. I was able to see most of the topes, or “bumps” that Mexican roads are notorious for. They are usually unmarked, camouflaged quite well, and have undoubtedly claimed the undercarriage of millions of vehicles over the years. In any event, our car seems to be ok, though it makes a sort of creaking noise on occasion. I think its suspension has taken a beating over its lifespan. We relaxed for a bit before calling it a night. Tomorrow, we may venture further down the coast to a place called Playa Cerritos.
passports & pepto bismol 