Photos by Aaron
Surf: Shorebreak. Always overhead when you’re on your belly.
Luis and Alica have Sundays off which made for a lovely excuse to get out of the house. We went up to San Pacho to check out the break and get a bite to eat. Last year, the surf was just stomping at San Pacho. We watched a guy snap a leash. There was barely even a wave there. Beamer and I brought surfboards just in case with fins and boogie boards as a just in case just in case.
There was a wave, but it wasn’t a good one and there were so very many people already fighting for it. Instead Beamer and I boogie boarded and body surfed a while. It was a sand-in-your-ears good time. We met a guy from Oregon who drives to southern mexico every year in his van. He and his girlfriend were going to drive up to Chicago next to see her family, then back to Oregon. Wow.
We got absolutely pounded by the shorebreak. I think I broke one of the boogie boards. Yipe. Pretty fun, but exhausting!
Afterwards we got an amazing dinner in town. They had vegetarian food for Beamer and delicious everything. Drinks, food. Lovely spot.
The drive back home was long. Mexican roads are a little crazy. We had a bus race up behind us, so we pulled off the road, then the bus slowed to a crawl through a town I was calling Playa del Speedbumps. There’s got to be 50 speedbumps in this town. We stopped at a few Oxxos looking for toiletries and only finding candy before finally making it home for some much needed sleep.
