La Paz

changed and diluted to better suit  the desires of people in the new country. Yet another reason to travel - The authentic delicious foods. I'm one week into my trip and all is going well. The next day I tried something new - street vendor fish tacos for lunch. I know what you thinking, fish tacos?  Freshly caught, lightly battered and deep-fried fish put in small tortillas freshly made with cilantro (a wonderful spice I didn't know about until traveling to Mexico), onion relish and sauces of your choice - absolutely delicious. I've been a fish taco nut ever since.

Bought my ticket back to the mainland for $40. I am the kind of traveler that doesn’t plan much. The kind that normally doesn't know what he's doing from day to day.  So it's not uncommon for me to buy a one-way ticket somewhere and stay in a place until I feel it's time to leave then I buy my ticket back. I walked to the local bus station from my hotel and grabbed a school bus to a local beach about 20 miles away.

The Surreal Beauty of Tecolote Beach
What an amazing place. The most crystal-clear water I've ever seen. Alien landscape very strange see my photos for more hard to describe secluded not really anybody there no build up with all

 those stores or souvenir selling people. Just one guy with a cart that was selling fresh fruit drinks out of coconuts, that's about it and just a few people so that that really added to the magic of the place being secluded. How beautiful and clean the water was I was wading at some point in the water and I saw this little puffer fish swim up to me while near me he was the cutest little guy he was like all puffed up with those little spikes come out of all the way around and had a little tail whipping. He was so cute.  I'm glad that he didn't attack me. Ha ha I saw an amazing example of nature a large rock formation with a little tiny column holding it up totally formed naturally just odd and strange but like I say very alien looking area - beautiful sunny day

Fun and Exciting La Paz Night Life
I met a fellow solo traveler, Andy and discussed the merits of the fish taco with him. We went to a nightclub,   and had some drinks.  La Paz's most beautiful people dancing and drinking all night long. I don't

know where all those beautiful, nicely dress Mexican people came from but they sure did show up that night. The club (La Pazlapa) was a huge outdoor place, perfect weather wall-to-wall people literally had to swim through people to get anywhere. The music was loud and good and they even have some unique theatrics with  large CO2 tanks sprayed white gas or white clouds of stuff. Anyway it added to the atmosphere which was memorable and exciting. I really had a great time, but boy did I pay for it the next morning. I had one of the worst hangovers – the hangover from hell. I told myself I'll never drink again ever. Had to be the tequila.

On to San Jose del Cabo by Bus
My luck the next day I was catching a bus to San Jose del Cabo about 20 miles before Cabo San Lucas. More painful transportation/transit - painfully long bus ride to San Jose very sick stomach I never want to drink again this bus was making so many turns, so curvy and mountainous it was up-and-down turning constantly turning right and left you can imagine what that does to somebody in my condition. Note to self - do not drink tequila as if it wasn't something that's very dangerous.