2010

like the olympics in vancouver being hosted in, of course, 2010, this is post number 2010 of this blog....weird.
this morning i got going pretty early as i wanted to make nogales by nightfall but also wanted to go to a couple of places and have some time to just look around and see what was what.
i stopped off in guyamas because floyd had told me to go there and have a look, and if i was missing hearing english, i should also stop by san carlos to see it as well. i needed some lunch once i got to guyamas and saw a trailer that had a good crowd so i figured it must be decent - and i was right. sure, it was just tacos but that's like saying an in-n-out burger is just a burger. these tacos were great. the filling? um, i'm pretty sure it was beef. pretty sure. and they had cabbage on them as well and they had a great variety of sauces as well. the guy standing next to me turned and said, with his mouth full, "good, huh...yes? good?" yes, i told him as i mowed down my second taco knowing i was ordering a third...it's funny, not really funny ha-ha, but, for all my (sometimes) gregarious nature, i do, still, find it hard in some situations to bust right in and get something going...like, walking up to a trailer selling tacos, surrounded by locals, and trying to order something in a language i'm not very fluent in...but once i do it, it always seems to kinda work out. today it did and it made my day - just hanging out at the cart eating tacos with some cool local folks.
i looked around town a bit and then headed to san carlos.
san carlos is a small coastal town that really is a gringo retreat. not really my deal at all. so i left. and that's my report on san carlos. period.
i drove then to hermasillo - where i had an very funny and charming and cute exchange with a young woman working at a medium sized grocery store. i was in buying some sabrita's peanuts for mishi and it all kinda went down...it's a long, well maybe short, but kinda confusing story for here but so fun...ask me later, i'll tell you. in the end her co-workers were telling me to take her back to canada...funny.
i made nogales and let me tell you, the border at nogales is unlike any other i have ever been at. kids accosting you in your car for money, people selling stuff you really don't need, kids stealing license plates off cars, a hundred squeegee kids, etc...it's insane. it was far from awesome. really far.
anyhow. i made it and am now in green valley, just outside tucson at spike's parent's place...it's great to see them, even better to see spike. i'll probably stay here for a couple days and then see what's up...i think tomorrow we'll go to a great little place here little poca cosa - amazing lemonade and mexican food...i hope.

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g. xo

nice wheels, man.


one of the bigger shrines i saw today...thought i'd show you the inside of this one.


and this was painted on the outside if this metal recycling place.

cool...no hassles.

and there on the side of the mountain is...

a really huge guadalupe. hold crap this thing was huge. and the only way they could have painted it was to scale down from the top and paint it while hanging there...

guyams...home of the wicked tacos.


fishing for prawns near guyamas.