San Blas Day 56

March 6, 2023

I was soooo sore from the hard mattress when I woke up, I could hardly walk.

We had decided that we would not stay a second night in San Blas because we thought we had seen it all already. We went for our included breakfast and it turned out to be the worse meal we have had in Mexico. Cold scrambled eggs and soggy chilaquiles. The coffee was grey. The juice and the only fresh fruit were cantaloupe. We started talking to our table neighbors, Val and Ray from Northern Ontario. They had been coming to San Blas for the last 15 years. They usually rent a small room with a local family but had decided to spend their last 3 days in Mexico at our hotel. They both had caught dengue fever and had been really sick from it. He was in bed with no energy for 10 days and she had a lingering cough from it. They thought it was from the stagnant water infested with mosquitos from the property where they were staying. We had been itching from the moment we had arrived in San Blas so it reinforced our decision to get out of town. They gave us a few recommendations of places to go.

We sat in the courtyard to decide our next move but the mosquitos were eating us alive so we just went to pack our bags and left. We went to discover the San Blas beach and went to Tuna Break, the restaurant our new friends had told us about. We saw some vultures eating an animal, maybe a dog, on the way. So sad. We were the only ones at the restaurant. We were still hungry since breakfast had not been a hit. It was another beautiful beach almost deserted. It probably is very busy during the weekends. We had taquitos vengador (an “eggroll” stuffed with shrimp, bacon and pineapple) and tostadeo San Pancho (a tostado with cucumber, avocado, tuna and fried onions). Droning was involved.

We stopped back at the Mirador de Las Aves so Pogo could drone over the crocodiles and birds. We took a side road to discover La Manzanilla and it was just one street following the ocean with two dead ends. There was an hotel with no guests and lots of abandoned homes that the kids would have loved to explore.

We drove through Las Varas, looking for a little café to stretch our legs but everything was closed as well probably for siesta time.

We got back on the new highway in Las Varas and 320 pesos ($16) and 37 minutes later (I calculated only 20 minutes from La Penita to Bucerias instead of the 60 minutes it usually takes), we were back in Bucerias. Being Monday, there were a few workers on the highway. We noticed that most of the sides of the hills that had been blasted away, were covered with either cement or strong nets. They all had draining pipes or wide draining channels.

We went to La Rustica in Punta de Mita to try a new restaurant for dinner. We shared an Al Pastor pizza and a Mexican salad. We got home just in time to see the sunset. We watched the violent and action packed latest episode of the Last of Us.

Shaun sent me cute pictures of my grandpuppy. 🙂