Dogs here speak spanish and respond to rocks. Afuera! Israelis have trust issues. And Norwegians are an incredibly fit race. The wave season is coming to a close and there is quite high turnover now amongst the people I have met. We picked up a new roommate at the house after P & S left, Dino, surfer, 22 from Israel. Met him in neixpa but didn't really get to know him, offered him a spot in the room i had when I saw him get into town. This turned out to...

Encountered Dave Langer of big wave riding fame today. He has been in Puerto for 3 months riding giants, but since there is no real swell right now he offered to tow us into some shore break for fun... It was awesome. I have never been beat so severely by a wave. The addition of about 100 HP to this wave is not really necessary...but occasionally massive excess is the only answer. A la bullfights on acid..which I would tell you about if I had experienced it. T...

A caution: If you fall into the trap of trying to define yourself by traveling, you will not feel that special while traveling. It is the incorrect state of mind. I am certainly am in the land of migrating existentialists. Many common themes. Recently I have Been hanging with an ex Microsoft employee who couldn't take IT (as in the daily grind) anymore and decided to travel south. neither of us can really define what the whole point is just yet, we can only agr...

For those who were wondering, a prudent estimation of the average driving speed on the Mex 200 through michoacan and guerrero is 490 mi per 15 hours. This estimation will more or less include traffic in Acapulco, encountering freeways which abruptly dead end and road construction. Military stops too. At any rate we made it from neixpa to puerto Escondido. On road construction. The MO here seems to be that if it doesn't need to be repaired it at least needs to co...

Settling in here at la ticla. 40 pesos per night to camp, with lights showers and toilets... Just about perfect. Waves too, everyday. With the exception of a few Australians who have passed through it has been only Gerod and myself and the three Israelis, who apparently rival the australians and Canadians in terms of worldly travel. The three we have here spent the last three years in the Israeli army, one of them was in some real s*** in Lebanon, their impressio...