Okay so I{m going to skip forward a couple of days to get some of the more stressful and frustrating of the days or our trip out of the way. The days when we really didn’t get much accomplished because of challenges in travel. . We did get to see the bus station and umm a hotel room in a couple extra places! woooo!!!!!!!!

So we got up in San Augstino on the morning we were gonna leave… Ill get to how we got there later so just relax. Well I should say Scott got up.. The first time he has ever ever beaten me out of bed in the morning. I couldn’t move. I hadnt been comfortable all night, I had eaten to much at dinner and my stomach hurt and was sore from the combo of trying to boogie board and swallowing lots and lots of water. Suffice to say I got about 4 hours of sleep.. Awesome right.

So I wake up sicker than a dog and really I just want to no move for a week, but its travel time. We gather everything up and get a taxi back into dirty pochutla and to the bus station thats supposed to have 8 trips a day to Acapulco where we are planning to go that next day..

To their credit they really did have 4-5 a day, but only one in the early morning when we had though they had 3-4.. The scedule didn’t match the postd on the wall either. I was sick and waiting 5 hours in a dirty bus station. (I’m not being mean this bus station was really pretty pedestrian) wasn’t realy a good idea for me. We wandered down and found a bus at a diffrent office leaving in 10 minutes for Puerto Escondido, a hour farter along atleast and a nicer town to have to hang out in.  SO that bus ride was painless and we found a cute hotel close ish to the beach to hang out in. It was a wonderful 6-7 room guest house. Bright airy and not that expensive. Really I would have loved to feel well enough to enjoy it.  So I slept….. all day and oh I frgot to mention.. The only good bus we found t get us to acapulco was a bus at 11:30 that night… So we were just using the room for the day. Comfy room and soon to be a very uncomfortalbe bus ride!

The start of the fall…

So just as we were getting showered and ready to head to the bus station the storm hit in earnest and the power went out! Fantastic, it was raining buckets, the hotel was on a cute pedestrain only street, the power was out, and we didn’t even get to shower..

Well it ended up being not a very big deal,  we got dressed by flashlight, we found a cab 1/2 a block away, and the power was only out in the couple parts of he town right next to the beach. Got to the station a little earlier than we wanted, but it beat a dark hotel room. Met some nice danes and got to talk about travel and politics a little.

The bus left on time, and was only half full. Though the people from the previous connections had colonized the seats assigned to Scott and I. No big deal really, we just picked another seat each. Mine seemed fine at first, until I noticed the drip drip drip drip of the emergency exit hatch on my head… I switch sides to avoid it only to be woken up later when the weather sealing on the window wasn’t quite up to par and another steady stream of drips was waking me up! Wonderful so I had to relegate myself to the only set of free dry seats left in the VERY VERY back next to the bathrooms. They worked atleast and I actually got a decent amount of sleep.

That got us to Acapulco and a quick taxi over to another bus station and a hour or so layover. I bought a shot glass, just to prove I was there. The rest of the trip was incidental to Taxco, easy quick shot into town and we found an amazing old converted Monastery to stay in. Thats for the next post… The rest is the stories of the frustration of travel.

After a day in Taxco it was time to catch the bus for Cuernavaca. One and a half hour of travel and no problems at all. Hung out there all day and jumped on the bus for Morelia…. 6 hours they said witha  quick stop in Mexico city.. So we would get in at 9 pm and find a hotel have time to get some dinner. Sounded like agood plan to us.. Well because of Mexico Cities rush hour traffic and a closed of tunnel. 8 hours later we arived , got dropped off in the wrong spot by a terrible taxi driver and we got into a decent little hotel right in our pricerange! Travel over for a couple days and all hard travel for the trip done!

Cheers

I’ll be catching up a lot over the next couple days and posting plent of photos so be prepared.