Loreto is a coastal town about 15 miles north of Puerto Escondido. Loreto doesn´t have any reliable anchorage, so the best way to visit it is by road. A cab ride to Loreto costs around $50 USD dollars each way. Bob and I had decided on the way here that we would like to check out Loreto while in the area and that we might just as well spend a night or two there since it was going to cost us 100 buck just to get there and back. As luck would have it one of the workers at the Marina here was just getting ready to go to Loreto so we hitched a ride with him and gave him 300 Pasos (25USD). We checked into a really nice hotel called the Sante Fe and each got our own room, thus not only getting a boat break but also getting a little break form each other. Let´s face it, living together on a 42 foot sailboat doesn´t give you a lot of personal space.
Loreto Is a nice little town that supposedly has a lot of retired gringos living in it. We saw very few retired gringos, or anyone else for that matter, the town was VERY quiet, in fact with the exception of hordes of teenagers on rollerblades, there was almost no one to be seen. We never the less enjoyed our time in Loreto and ended up staying two nights. When we were getting ready to leave some dude in the hotel lobby that had been trying for the past two days to sell us hiking and kayak tours, offered us a ride back to Puerto Escondido and a free breakfast. All we had to do was listen to a "short" presentation that he swore up and down wasn´t a time share. Well of course it was a time share, but we got a nice tour of a beautiful resort, a free breakfast and a free ride back to PE....and all I had to do was say no 136 times and in half a dozen different ways.
Tomorrow we´ll be leaving PE and working our way up to Santa Rosalia, I should have internet access along the way, but may not be able to blog everyday.