DAY 6 - Monday, April 16th.: This place we’re staying at could be anywhere… anywhere beautiful that is. The building is new and small enough to be cozy. It’s surrounded by lush, green, colourful and fragrant gardens, complete with a myriad of birds (hummingbirds, doves, quail, sparrows and finches) that feed and live within the garden canopy. There’s even an owl, complete with a very loud ‘hooter’, and a pair of white doves that hang out on the telephone wire across the street. I’ve used the word ‘street’ but really our hotel is on a wide, hard-packed dirt road, one section removed from the highway that slows a bit as it passes through town. As I sit here listening to the crickets outside our door and the chirps of the birds settling in for the night, we could be anywhere… anywhere beautiful, green and ‘alive’. Guess you could say we like it here. There’s even an orange grove next to our garden and one of the gardeners gave Kathy 4 mandarin oranges from one of the trees today. We’ll have them for breakfast tomorrow.
Speaking of food…. did we ever have a nice dinner. We’d been kind of frustrated earlier in the day when we tried to find a place to have breakfast… it was lunch time by the time we actually came across a place that was open and looked like the food would be safe. It was and it was good and once done, we headed back to our little oasis to spend the afternoon reading and laying about in the sun. Shortly after we arrived we were told by Nancy, our desk clerk, about Cilieto LIndo’s, reknown for it’s cracked crab, and near enough to the ocean to actually allow a couple of girls and a small dog to reach out and play on the beach. Soooo, off we went and after a not-too-long drive on a not-too-lumpy road we found the place. Not only did it serve great crab it was a neat little bar, inhabited by a group of x-pats, one of whom (Clarence) bought us a beer to toast the passing of a dear friend of his.
DAY 7 – Tuesday, April 17th: We’ve slept in a bit today… our drive will only be about 4 hours. We’re heading in to the wine country that lies in a valley running between Ensenada and the Tecate border crossing. We’ve had breakfast in bed with our books.. it consisted of coffee from the desk clerk’s counter (not too bad if you add about half a cup of hot water to it) a can of peaches (no, not out of the can.. we used plastic water cups and our plastic spoons from mixing the Coffee mate into the aforementioned coffee :-); and some breakfast bars (left over from our trek down the coast and still delicious… in a Kellogs, cereal bar kind of way). After showers, and repacking our gear into the trusty van we’ll be on our way into the next leg of our journey.
It’s interesting how, as we get closer to home, things like calendars and commitments start to creep in. There are several things we are really looking forward to doing when we get home and one of them is catching up with our friends and families. Another involves healthy living… can’t say we’ve been able to maintain our svelt figures, so will have some work to do in that regard… good news is we know what to do, just have to do it. I’m going to sign off now…it’s time to get going.. I’ll tell you how our drive today went..later tonight. Until then, have a great day… ttfn… CJ
