Wednesday, May 10, 2000
After a wonderful breakfast at Tres Leches, we caught a bus to
La Paz. Arrived on the outskirts of town, about 4km away, not where
we expected. It seems all Mexican cities are moving their bus
terminals to the outskirts. We caught a collectivo taxi to mercado
central for 3 pesos each.
We hiked to the SEMATUR office from the mercado to get our
ferry tickets for the next night’s departure. This being our
honeymoon, we decided to splurge for Especial Clase, 720 pesos
each. Hiked back three blocks to the conveniently-located Hotel la
Purisima, 220 pesos. Our room has a lovely 4-tone yellow tile bath
accented by 2-tone greens, with 1-inch grout joints. The a/c didn’t
work, but it wasn’t necessary. Kind of disappointing, but far
better than the hotel we stayed at in London last fall!
We dined at El Callejon, a nice outdoor restaurant on a
pedestrian street near the malecon. A lady passing by decided that
a bench on the sidewalk facing the outdoor seating would be the
ideal place to breast-feed her baby. Jana tends to disagree. We
would later discover that most breast-feeding in Mexico is done in
public, in front of as many people as possible.
We walked down the malecon after dinner and watched the
teenagers in heat practicing their seduction rituals on the beach.
This is another act that Mexicans feel they must do in public. We
soon adopted the term "belly-rubbers" for these raging-hormone
teens, because if the guy is having any luck at all, he’ll have the
girl laid out on a park bench rubbing her belly (or she’ll be
rubbing his). Got some good pics of them. I built a sand mountain
and Jana waded.
The waterfront at La Paz
We strolled through the Plaza de Constitution. It is very
pretty at night and is filled with little Mexi-kids. We like La
Paz.
Tom showing off on the playground on the playa
Got a couple of beers and a 70-peso bottle of mescal in a local
grocery/department store. We went to the room and watched Mexican
politicos and pundits on TV. The presidential elections are coming
up in Mexico in a month, so the networks were full of that stuff. I
kind of liked the guy Vincente Fox, though I admit this is a
judgment on appearance only, since they were of course speaking
Spanish. They sounded about like American politicians, except they
took turns speaking. I could tell they were all full of crap just
the same.
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