Zihuatanejo... home...Adios to highway 200....As usual, Mexico, you have been a blast

 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain

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                                 Prologue...............

.................Mark Twain said it pretty well.... we leave with a greater appreciation of people, culture, traditions as we travel through countries...... more than ever... we need to step out of our comfort zone.... confront fears, prejudgements...and see that our world is pretty similar.... we want a chance to live.....share.... work.... raise families....etc.... etc......Go..Go.... Explore.... Explore.... Shayne y Yvonne

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       Back to the beach at Zihuatanejo...

We leave Morelia on a wet n dark early morning taxi ride to the bus station....we arrive @ 6:30am... aiming for a 7am direct bus to Zihuatanejo.

Find out it's full...@#$&!! We have a choice..Can take the 11am direct bus for the 5 hr ride or grab an 8 am bus to a neighboring town about 90 minutes north of Zwhat!

As usual..... we opt to move 'forward'..... and buy tickets for the 8am/4 hr bus .... we hope there's a bus or two heading south to Zihuatanejo.

We arrive in Lazero Cardenas... meet a Mexican doctor who's in the same predicament.... wanting to get to Zwhat.

Better yet... his Spanish is impeccable .... we visit all 3 bus stations and find the next bus out is 2 hrs later....so, with our new friend's help...😁we bargain with a taxi driver, get a deal and off we go down highway 200 for our last stretch of this coastline and revisiting Zihuatanejo.
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Returning to Zihuatanejo. ..

We were here 2 years ago at the tail end of another Mexican trip. This is still a charming little town? (yea... maybe not so little, anymore)... we enjoy the ambiance of the town, music, food.

We revisit with a dear friend we met 2 years ago on a panga boat heading to a local beach. Check out some of favourite bands (Xpression Immune) and bars (the Barracruda) and grab some beach time.

Our hotel...Hotel Zihuatanejo Centro... Approx 600 pesos... might not look so great on the outside (renos)... but our room was clean, quiet and had everything we needed... our balcony is dead center in the picture above.

Nice to return here....Smaller, way less hectic than PV..... it's a favourite hangout for long-termers that winter here..

Kim...Hugs to you!!

Sweet Jesus.....

3 - 4 metre high statue with a 💓 of melted house keys from residents of the state of Guerrero. 

Sits in 4 metres or more offshore of a beach (Las Gatas), where a local saw a 'vision' a number of years ago

Town beach and fish boats and the morning catch (below)

However.... it's time to head home....we find a direct flight home to Vancouver... saves us having to go through Mexico City or bouncing around the USofA changing planes...

As the bird soars off into our final sunset we too must return home...before the next journey. ..

Adios ....We say goodbye..wrapping up another pretty great nearly 2 months on the road...

Hasta Luego!

Shayne y Yvonne 

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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