it’s like a baby Cancun. Toast colored beach with a handful of hotels. Not at all like Cancun with its mile long string of high rise deluxe 5star hotels fronting white powdery beaches and ‘the tourist zone’ for shopping. (the Mexican government built these ‘resorts’ back in the 70’s. – “designed for toursists.”) I have never been a fan of Cancun. It has no actual flavor. It’s been cleaned up and ‘americanized’ for the US. Who wants to go to mexico and see KFC on one corner and McDonalds on the other? Ixtapa, like Cancun, was not what I was looking for.I started my watch’s timer function to see how long it would take the bus to get there. The bus cost 60cents. They run all over town, you just jump on and go. I got off the bus, walked the entire beach taking all the photos I wanted. It dawned on me I was through and ready to go back to Zihuatanejo. Then I remembered I hadn’t checked the timer. 43 minutes. I had been gone from Zihua for only 43 minutes. (It takes about ten minutes to make the drive.) I asked the bus driver which was the prettiest beach – Los Gatos. (he said that and La Ropa)
from Zihua:
I’m back in my room now watching the light soften and yellow on the bay. You can see the heat melt away. White hot cools to yellow, then pinks and blues, and finally greys to black. It’s 7:33pm and im going to stay in tonight – warm up some leftovers I put in the fridge. Chicken de Mole’ with Spanish rice, bread, fruit salad and an apple turnover, a nice $6 Chilean Cabernet to compliment everything. Vacation.
I’ll either find a great ‘something’ on the TV with English dialogue and sub titles or read my book. Tomorrow… no clue. Maybe I’ll leave the camera in the room and go into the water. Ive still not been in the water. My favorite beach is Playa Los Gatos and that could be where I end up. Bouncing and crashing in the surf. It’ll be fun. You walk out about 20 yards and the waves hit you like a truck. I’ve been watching everyone do this now for ten days. Their laughter is contagious.
I saw another lizard tonight. (Earlier in the week I had an iguana walk across the banister just outside the window. It was about 27” long and had lots of blue in it. Perhaps it had crawled up the face of the hotel which has blue corners? It slowly walked across from one end of the window to the other.) tonight’s lizard was a small 4 inch geko. It slowly walked across the living room wall. This one was off-white to match the wall. I watched it cross about six feet of wall and ease into a crack by the window frame. Sometimes it makes it’s little chirping sounds. A sort of whistle and then some clicks. (my sister jane – the youngest, wrote me last week that the centipede was a great ‘house creature.’ [my word/not hers] it kills insects and is good to keep. I am going on record as preferring the geko over the Centipede. Cute, snuggly and only 4 legs. It whistles and sings. Heck you can almost see it smile….
Hope you are enjoying your summer, that your ant eater has only 4 legs. Xo skip
