Surfs Up in Mexico
Written by Paul Goodison | 11 February 2011
I have been here now for just over a week, with six days of sailing in predominantly light winds it may be time for a rest day tomorrow. It’s been quite an action packed few days with gym, sailing, mountain biking and some surfing filling most days.
There have been a few funny moments thrown in there too.
We drove home the other night and got pulled over by the police. Vaughn the driver got taken to one side and was told he was going to be fined etc... Five minutes later he came back to the car 'we need 300 pesos' after paying the cop off we drove on. It sounded like tourist tax for swerving to miss a speed bump / pot hole.
The other day I couldn't find my team cap with the Volvo logo on the side; I thought I had just misplaced it. After packing my boat up on the walk home, I walked passed a local and had to double take, after a second glance I noticed he was wearing my cap! After shouting at the guy and pointing he glared at me and off he went. I found it pretty hard to believe it was being worn less than 50 meters away from where it had been taken.
All in all we have had a good week, some good sailing but not the true thermal breeze as it has been quite cloudy, it is supposed to clear and get back to normal in a few days so hopefully some breeze. We have had a few good surf trips with some small but clean waves and a good mountain bike tour where we were taken in to the mountains. The trails were either really dusty or running river beds- pretty different to home and great fun, way more interesting than sitting on the bike in the gym.
Paul