Monday, November 13, 2006

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly



Returned late Sunday night from a sleepy, remote fishing village in Puerto Lobos, Sonora, México. Was without any telephone, television, cell phone, basically no communication for 3 days. Great place for fishing, boating and for quads.

The Good - the trip was a blast, beautiful remote beach. The company was great.
-Beer, not good, but excellent.
-Tequila - El Tequileño, excellent.
-Seafood - Manta Ray and Shrimp stew/soup- phenonmenal, not to mention the carne asada and ceviche.
-Maneuvering out of 2 near certain fatal car accidents.
-Witnessing at least 5 sharks taking some big poor fish down, pretty violent, pretty cool.
-The night time sky was full of stars from horizon to horizon, bunches of shooting stars.

The Bad - The Mrs. getting gorged by a Sting Ray in the foot, taking her out of commission for awhile, bloody and painful. Our little four year old gringa who broke her leg 2 weeks ago was in a full leg cast, so both the Mrs. and Daniella were down, but not out, the little one had a ball.

The Ugly - Seeing corruption in México first hand. To get to Puerto Lobos, you must take a dirt road for 40 miles between two mountain ranges, the previous party in power, the PRI, had it in the books in México City that this 40+ mile stretch was paved/asphalted. When the PAN party came to power in 2000, they found this to be untrue. Somebody pocketed millions of dollars.

Photo's later.

Being out of commission for a few days, I'm prepared to see what Nancy Pelosi, et al, have been up to......sounds like she's starting to make some noise........time to catch up.

3 Comments:

At 3:49 PM, Blogger elmers brother said...

Oh I love ceviche.

Sorry about the ladies in your life. I've heard if you pee on the stingray wound it will make it feel better. (I know you think I'm crazy but that's what I heard)

 
At 8:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

no no you pee on a jellyfish sting

 
At 12:59 PM, Blogger Joe Gringo said...

I just got a visual of trying to "put out the fire" while in pain from the sting!

 

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