La Saladita (part 7 and 8) - Oct 17/18

He came dancing across the water, with his galleons and guns, looking for the new world, in that palace in the sun. - Cortez the killer, Neil Young.

Fascinating reading about the history of Mexico, I find you learn so much about the world from travelling .. was chatting to a Ukrainean guy last night as I cooked my dinner at the hostel, and he said 'you know a lot about European history' I said I know a bit about the places I have been.

Internet wasn't working yesterday, so didn't get to update the blog .. so here is two days for the price of one. Yesterday got some good waves, had one ride that must of been close to 30 seconds long. It had rained the night before and the water was pretty funky .. quite brown .. must of scared a few people off cause there wasn't many in the water. Whereas today was flat but yet I counted 27 people in the line up.

The view out the back of a pickup that gave us a lift from Los Llanos to the beach at La Saladita

Have downloaded a spanish teaching book to my Kindle and have been doing a little bit each day. Can read and write pretty well .. but find when it is spoken to me it is so fast I can't process it in time to respond coherently.

The local buses that we've been catching many of them are done up with personality. Almost like themes .. I have seen a Batman bus and also a Freddy Kruger bus. Another thing that entertains me to no end is the very Mexican sounding music that blares out of everysingle bus stereo.