November 10, 2008

Although my first morning in Troncones began with a bit of a rude awakening (the parrot outside my window decided to perform an early morning wake up screech at the top of his lungs), I managed to get right back to sleep and stayed that way till 9:00 :)



Like with most first nights in a new bed there were a few “noises” to get used to through the night...like the chirps from the geckos or the whir of the overhead fan. Actually, speaking of the overhead fan....it was on maximum speed when I arrived to get the air in my room moving a little.....unfortunately, I didn’t see where Mitch turned it on and as a result couldn’t find the control anywhere. So there I was in the middle of the night, buried under my blankets trying to stay warm in Mexico as the overhead fan in my room created a small tornado with each rotation of it’s powerful oversized blades. That combined with the cool nighttime temperatures....I was well on my way to freezing to death!! The good news is that at around 5 a.m. I located the control switch and was able to turn the speed down to something that better served my needs. Tonight will be much better!


With my first full day complete.....I’m having a little trouble believing that I have a ton more of the same in front of me!! Today was not too tough to take....once I finally crawled out of bed, I made my way across the road to the beach where I took off my shoes and spent the next hour or so just walking along the water’s edge. The day could not have been any more bonito. As Lynda had promised...I had the beach virtually to myself. I think I saw a total of five people and one dog during the time I was out walking. Once I arrived back to the spot I had entered the beach area, I decided that a little something for brunch might be nice so went in to Roberto’s for juevos de Mexicana (Mexican style eggs). Breakfast was great and the view was outstanding! I had the entire restaurant to myself and once I had finished my food decided to take advantage of the great location so just settled in with my book for a relaxing read with the breakers crashing on the shore in front of me. Yes, life if good! :)

The rest of my day didn’t get too much more complicated than the morning had been either. I went from hanging in the hammock to swimming in the pool to catching a few “z’s” between chapters. I think it was as I was waking up from one of my cat naps that it dawned on me....I have a lot of days like this to look forward to :) Now for those of you who are green with envy at this point in the blog....here's a little "bit" for you.....I share my balcony with bats in the night, I almost stepped on a snake coming along the path to my room this afternoon (fortunately it was just a garter snake and the cats had already killed it), there are no see ems and a few mosquitos after dark, and when you're sitting outside in the living room and the temperatures are perfect....not one of those things come to mind :)


Mitch and Viri have all the rooms in my building full at present and are preparing the other building for the high season that is fast approaching. Currently there are 3 people from Montreal and 2 from Grand Forks so I’d say Canada is leading in numbers if nothing else.
Five of us went back to Rufie’s for dinner again tonight – it is a tiny very authentic home style restaurant. In fact the vast majority of her customers are her family members. Troncones is very family oriented and many of the locals are related to one another. To give you an example....the two women running the outdoor kitchen at Rufie’s are mother and daughter, about 8 of the customers in the restaurant tonight were their kids or siblings, the Grandmother of the mother/daughter duo in the kitchen owns the local store where the rest of the family seems to work....the daughter/granddaughter works at Roberto's where I went for brunch this a.m......well you get the picture...... Rufie’s cuisine is about as authentic as it get’s. Last night I had taquitos de pollo con consome which was delicious and tonight I had tacos with marinated pork and pineapple. No complaints about the food from me :)

For having done nothing all day....I’m tired and am off to bed so hasta luego amigos. Tengo dormir ahora.
L.