La Veva- a new favorite restaurant

Found a great restaurant 2 weeks ago with an atypically affordable menu in Huatulco a few weeks back. I was at the little computer shop across the street and spotted some UMAR students who said the food was good and the prices were cheap. I found it lived up to all the hype. service is great. They offer a lunch menu with drinks, starter, main course and dessert. I can pop in there on my way from work and be in and out in 20 minutes, better fed than if I´d eaten at home. I eat fast. It´s an old habit.
Anyone coming our way should check it out. Just off one of those side streets from the zocalo on the Casa Mayor corner. Or just remember the pictures. You should spot it easily.

Motofest 2010

Some fun things were happening in our town last weekend but some bad directions steered me the wrong way. Worse, I passed on those same directions on to other people. I missed the Motofest rock concert on Friday evening and almost the helmet awareness ride.

It seems to have been a wild Saturday night. One friend had lost the battery to his scooter earlier in the week. Another had the lock stolen to his. When I got ready for the ride early Sunday morning, my speedometer and license plates were missing. They were there. I just couldn´t see them. Somebody had sprayed them with black paint. Worse, the freaks sprayed a neighbor´s shiny truck.



There were no bikes gathered in the square when I arrived. Oh well. I was awake. It was a beautiful fresh morning. I gassed up for a nice ride on my own and that´s how I came across the Helmet Awareness Ride, more or less by accident. Somebody gave me a fresh T-shirt and we were on our way. It was a longer ride than last year. We circled through town twice, making a lot of noise. That´s how my friend found us. Luckily his girlfriend brought her camera along. Mine was broken.



I bought a new one right after the ride. Within minutes I ran into a pack of UMAR students down at Chahue. My first picture with the new Samsung. May it have better luck than all the cameras before it.

Daybreak at Playa Organo

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A few weeks ago, I was driving home on the lunch break with my visor up, enjoying the sea breeze, when a hornet smacked me in the face and stung me under my right eye. I had to pull over and cry for about five minutes. Of course that didn´t stop me from riding. I´m just more conscientious about the visor now.

That same week, I was behind Autoaccesso, having a cigarette, when I saw the biggest snake I have ever seen outside of a glass cage in a zoo. I assumed the rustle in the bushes was a startled iguana at first. Wrong. I backed up against the wall and gave it lots of personal space. This thing was big enough to hurt me even if it wasn´t poisonous. Did that stop me from camping on Playa Organo with the gang that weekend. Not at all, but it came down to whether or not I could find a snake proof tent. Richard helped me out and off I went.

Generally I keep to the rule of never swimming in the ocean after dark. I break that rule at Santa Cruz pretty often because the water is calm and the shore is well lit. I broke it again at Organo that weekend and I´m glad. The water was relatively calm and we had a nice fire on the beach to serve as a beacon. It was one of those nights of phosphorescent water when every stroke you take sends out bright sparks of luminescent light. There is nothing like it.

We live in a beach resort but no one I know wakes up to a view of the beach. It was such a treat and the beach was all ours. Good times.