Barra de Navidad · La Manzanilla
What Day Is It?
A couple folks have messaged us to see if everything’s OK. Emphatic YES. So now you’re all caught up. I know I usually write about all the places and things and stuff but here we are in a zone of bliss where time stands still and every day is a . . . a . . . unit of time that used to matter?
We do need to know what day is garbage day. And what days Donny and friends play. And when the Al Pastor place is open. And the big town market is on Thursdays. So there are still important schedules to keep.
I may have mentioned that the weather is perfect. Seriously, bathing suit 24 hours, and that has not changed for more than a month. Cool nights but not cold. Warm days but not hot. Ridiculous. Papayas, palms, star fruit, coconuts, pineapples avocados. . . this is where it all comes from. Fruit and produce here are amazing.
Here we are in a zone of bliss where time stands still.
Excellent music every night, amazing food, moseying around town. One of the best dive bars on the planet, Lucy’s Paradise. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. You have? OK.
We have done a couple of side trips to nearby towns, that also have quaint city centers and beachside bars and restaurants. Most notably, the town of La Manzanilla, which has art and food and beach, and also has 350 Crocodiles, give or take. There is a fence to keep them from eating tourists and a creaky boardwalk above them that you just need to have faith in. We made it.
We have met some amazing and kind people here and the town is small enough that you start to see folks on the street and wave and catch up. Real Beaver Cleaver type stuff. Or Cuchilla de Castor in Spanish I guess. This has a remarkable calming effect on life.
Major achievements include such Herculean feats as completing puzzles, cooking Arracherra on a Coleman camp stove, getting Axel’s teeth cleaned, and somehow making it two books into Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.
I promise we will be on the move again at the end of the month. We shall see if the gravitational pull of this place persists as we leave. I suspect yes.
