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Wont you take me to…Mushroom Town

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Apparently there is a town 4 hours north of Puerto Escondido where there lives a lady who from all description sound like ‘The Oracle’ from the Matrix. Its somewhat hard to get there, a bunch of different busses to some crazy part of Mexico up in the mountains. There lives a lady in her mid-sixties, but looks about 85 who when you arrive lets you stay for super cheap and innudates you with joints, hash, and mushrooms. Mostly for free..She is like the Shaman of the Mushrooms or something.

So troops of brave souls have been coming back raving from this place spreading the rumor around for other searching souls to go test their mettle. Apparently the trip is worth if for the scenery alone as it is way way way up in the mountains and you can see like 30 mountain ranges from the lady’s porch. Its all word of mouth and every 4 days or so another small group of like 3-4 will come back and spread the news, whereupon another group will follow the instructions out.

Now before you innundate me with ‘you should haves’, let me just say that mushrooms and I do not jive. Mushrooms and I do not play well together. I dont want to go there. In fact, if a little mushroom came along and said ‘eat me!’, I would say:

No……

Mushroom.

I will not eat you, or any of your tasty friends, however hallucinagenic they may be.

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Now is blessed, the rest remembered (J.M.)

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Puerto Escondido is a small town on the Pacific side of Mexico. A small surf town, with big waves holding international surf competitions. Most people that have been here for a while seem to know eachother. There is a good backpacker community and some crazy nightlife. There is also some pretty amazing sport fishing. I met a guy from Texas who just caught a 8 foot sailfish.

The waves are massive and the waters are succeptible to huge tidal changes producing some pretty strong rips. The rips look like waves going out to the ocean instead of in and when they go out, they crash into the waves that are natrually coming in, creating huge explosions of whitewash.

I spent all the time on the beach in the sun and in the ocean, meeting people, and eating cantaloupes and pineapples. and tacos.

 

Puerto Escondido

 

Right now I am in Zihuatanejo, the place they go at the end of Shawshank Redemption. Thought that was a nice touch to the end of the trip.

Also, I just recently read Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Cool book. Consequently, he wrote another book called The Doors of Perception, where Jim Morrison and family got their name from.

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A man rakes leaves into
a heap in his pard, a plie,
& leans on his rake &
burns them utterly.
The fragrance fills the forest
children pause & heed the
smell, which will become
nostalgia in several years

-Jim Morrison

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Mexico Part 1

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I flew from Madrid to Cancun and crashed out for 2 days to adjust. Cancun was just a crazy place where everyone gets massivly inebriated at these huge clubs. The beaches, however, are worth it. I got out of there as quick as I could and headed for Isle Mujeres – a backpackers Cancun, according to the guidebook.

corona

This place was really really laid back. Cheap hostels and a calm beach with crystal clear teal waters and a nice little backpacker social that communed on the local beach bar every night. Chilled out here a few days enjoying a few Coronas and some good Mexican food. Hooked up with 2 crazy Ozzies who had just got down from California and were surfing around Cali and Baja California, as well as the Pacific side of the Mexican coast. I have a feeling that Australia is the place to be. They were also in a pretty sweet surf rock band called OneJonathan, and we got to jam out a bit. Basically they travel around play guitar, surf, drink heaps, and talk to alot of girls, and generally have a really good time. So needless to say, they have life figured out. We ate the scorpion out of the bottom of a bottle of Mezcal. These guys were halarious. To quote Rob (imagine this in an Australian accent) “I just woke up in the hammock and there was this Norwegian chick standing over me.. I was just like ahhhhhhhh………EPIC!”.

mezcal

I made a quick stop at Tulum to see some ruins on the beach. They used to sacrifice little girls there on the altar. The Mayans were exteremely off. But the site is georgous and the visit was well worth it.

Tulum

After that was Playa del Carmen for a few nights. Some of the best snorkling and diving around. I did alot of swimming and laying in the sun. It was good.

Then onto the ancient Mayan city of Palenque. To quote the lonely planet “superb jungle setting and exquisite architechture, and decoration, is one of the marvels of Mexico”. 500 buildings spread over 15km of jungle setting. I was almost the first one in the park at 8 am , so I got to wander the ruins by myself. That place is really trippy. Toucans and monkeys howling, jungle vines, abandoned temples. “Indiana? The dogs name is Indiana”.

Also did a side trip to this place called Misol-ha, where they filmed some scenes from Predator. Heres me near the waterfall.

Misol-ha

After Palenque I took an overnight bus to San Cristobal de Las Casas. “a cool highland town among misty region of deeply traditional indigenous villages”. Last night there was some music on in the square. 2 guys playing and singing Mexican guitar. I would recomend backpacking Mexico to everyone. Its really easy going, the people nice, and the food is awsome. After this is Puerto Escondido to hit the beach for a while and maybe catch some surf.

Adios!

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