Salutations from Sayulita!

We have arrived today in México. We took the bus from PVR to Sayulita, where we are staying for the first part of our trip. We arranged a surf package with a surf instructor I met here last year. He will be taking us on 6 surf trips and we're staying at a house he manages. The house is nice -- a little rustic. (Water pressure leaves much to be desired. It's more like a trickle.)

The view is amazing (as you might have noticed.) The cost of the view is a very steep uphill hike home if we decide to venture out on foot. It's a 5 min walk into town and there are enough shops & restaurants in the small town of Sayulita that we won't need a car while we're here. We have a full kitchen and bought some groceries last night, so when it was pouring rain this morning, Sean made us breakfast and we stayed in and read. The internet is down at the house, so we won't have email access at home until that is fixed (hopefully today.)

I'm eating well. (That's to answer my grandmother's perpetual question.) Mexican seafood is delicioso! I have a favorite cafe that I discovered last year, as every tourist does on their first visit to Sayulita. It's called Chocobanana and it's on the square right in the center of town. It was started by a British woman who used to sell chocobananas (chocolate covered bananas) on the beach. They serve some American food and healthy Mexican food, good coffee, and fresh fruit drinks -- our new favorite is the Ginger Punch which is mango, orange and ginger. Yum. They are one of the many places that have free wifi and one of the few places that take credit cards. There are no banks in Sayulita, no bank-owned ATMs and there has been a lot of ATM fraud here recently, so being able to use a credit card is a big deal. 

It seems like everyone here speaks Californian. I've never had to use my broken Spanish less in Mexico. There are many expats and some tourists. When I told our host, Beto, that everyone had California English accents, without skipping a beat he promptly replied, "all the girls are from California." Sayulita is a small village far from home in Mexico, but it doesn't feel too foreign. Lots of surfers, fresh organic food, massage & yoga. And not too touristy! We've only been offered silver jewelry from a man on the street one time and he moved on without any hassle.

Eating lunch, we've seen 3 different police vehicles drive by. No drug lord sightings yet. Although, we did see a gang of little surfers.