Hi y’all. I continued down the coast and am in Guatemala. The only place I spent any time in while still in Mexico was Puerto Escondido, just 2-3 hours up the coast from Mazunte which I blogged about earlier when I came first to Oaxaca from Chiapas. It’s a fairly big city with several tens of thousands of people. The only thing going on there is a fairly mellow beach scene, as city beach scenes go.
A lot of people go there to surf. The surfers don’t get to ride long, but the breaks are lovely.
I mostly just walked around and chilled out in my hostel. Nothing much to say about that.
From there I took a couple of bus rides to the Guatemala border, spending the nights in a couple of forgettable cities, Tehuantepec and Tapachula. Getting over the border was routine, and here I am. I’ll be writing soon about this current leg of my journey.
Here’s news! Myung is coming on August 29. She got someone to take over her lease and told me tonight that she sold the easy stuff to sell and sold the rest at cost to another cosmetics dealer. She’s going to Korea to visit friends and family August 11-28, and to gear up for life on the road again. Then she’s flying to Guadalajara. We’ll meet up there. I’ll likely stay here in Guatemala so I’m not far away and can get up there easily. I sprung for a plane from Tuxtla Gutierrez to Guadalajara. Turns out, like in America, it isn’t significantly cheaper to go long distances than to take the bus. Needless to say, it’l be nice to see her again.
That’s going to be it for now. Until later…