Back in Oaxaca after a couple days in Puerto Escondido. And back out with Carlos and Oscar again last night. And Carlos' cousin whose name I can't remember but the dude is super chido (cool). He wants to snowboard so badly but he can't afford it - he's a skateboarder. I was telling him how easy it is to learn, especially for a skateboarder. He didn't get that surfing was by far the hardest thing a person could ever learn to do and that snowboarding could be learned in two days and you could be good in one season. He thought the opposite was true. I wish I could help him get on a mountain. Oaxaca is a hard place to do anything outdoors. There's one park where you could kind of ride a skateboard, a kind of a mountain-like thing where you can hike or mountain bike (but it's fairly hideous), no golf course (at least that's what Carlos' cousin told me last night), one tennis court (that's an exaggeration), and not a lot of sports facilities in general. It's not a place I would live permanently but it's definitely got it's own cool energy....and really beautiful women. I just need to be outside more. I say that but my entire life here is outside but it's different. Everyone lives outside here. You eat outside, school is outside, bars and restaurants are all open to the street which is cool. And people aren't fat because they walk everywhere. But they don't do a lot of "formal" exercise or seem to play a lot of sports.
Going to San Cristobal in a few weeks to meet up with Anoushka who I met in Barra. She's been traveling for about two and a half years and lives on an organic farm in the mountains near San Cristobal. Cool chick. Surfer, trippy/hippie from the UK. We had a good night of talking and drinking beers on the beach in Barra. She said the music scene in San Cristobal is huge and that I have to go there just for that if nothing else. She's going to show me around and introduce me to some of the freaks who live up in the mountains with her on the farm. Not sure what they farm but does it really matter? I just know that it's something "organic" and that's good enough for me.
More on Puerto and my new friend Coco in a bit.
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