Yesterday was one of my planned unplanned days. I decided to go into Loreto (15 miles away) with no plan. Once ashore I met up with a couple other guys, Shannon and Mathew, looking to get into town. The trick is to get in to town as cheaply and easily as possible. A cab costs about $60 each way (expensive—especially by Mexico cruiser standards). To catch a bus you have to hike out to the highway and you have to wave down a bus that runs ROUGHLY every couple of hours. Or, the best way is to find someone with a car headed into town. That’s what we did. Free ride in! After wandering around the town (Shannon knew the way, Mathew knows Spanish) we had some street tacos and then settled down for some internet and beer. Oh yah, the bar also was a fish bait and sushi place (go figure). I think it was Augie’s, an ex-pat, kind of local place on the “malecon”. After that we provisioned and found another ride back to Puerto Escondido. This time it was in the back of a pickup truck.

It was a good day seeing the town and getting to know Shannon, a single hander on Sinbad, ex-capenter, somewhat fugitive from the San Diego law. And Mathew, a young, aspiring musician who hopped a ride to Loreto Fest on Neener (cubed). It was one of those magical cruising days that with only a rough plan everything flows and works out.