1:30 pm
i forgot to blog more last night... haha.
yesterday was a really good day. we both had siestas in the afternoon, and rode bikes into town to buy wine. we then drank a bottle and a half of wine, and had a dance party, ate dinner outside and hung around chatting for hours.
this morning, mike and calvin went and took the camper to the dump (for free! because calvin and leanne live here and apparently oaxaca has awesome garbage services - they even take compost here - which i know they do in toronto, but in calgary we didn't even have recycling pickup until about 3 years ago!)
mike got the back of the truck washed out, but it sounds like we might not have much luck finding a tailgate. i'm not sure what we're going to do if we can't find a tailgate and topper for the truck (because the plan was to sleep in the back...), but i'm sure everything will come together. i guess we can always get a tent if we need to!
today i walked to the zocalo here in santa maria del tule. i sat for a long time under el tule, the huge tree there. it's got the largest truck circumference of any tree in the world, and it's absoloutly stunning. it totally dwarfs the big cathedral next to it, and it's canopy covers a huge area. last night when we rode bikes to get wine we went past it, and i know it sounds like weird hippy crap, but i was totally shocked by the energy of the tree. i had heard about it and knew it was in tule, but i didn't expect to just ride a bike right past it. honestly i almost fell off.
i also wandered around the little crafty market. they had some nice stuff, and i bought my dad a present. i also had a creepy shopkeeper leer at me. it was weird, i went in to look at some shirts, and he came over. i told him thanks, i'm just browsing, i'll let you know if i have any questions. he proceeded to stand less than 2 feet from me, blocking my access to some of the things i was trying to see, and leering at me while sweating profusely. :\ i told him that i'd appreciate if he'd back off a little, and that, again, i'd let him know if i needed help. he took a step backwards, so now he was all of 4 feet away, and continued to leer. that's when i left. i know that people can be pushy sometimes here, but it wasn't that. he wasn't saying anything, or trying to help me, just LEERING. *shudder*
anyway, i made it home safe and sound with my present for dad and some veggies.
3:30 pm
so, i have some news. we are leaving tomorrow. we haven't been able to find a tailgate/truck topper for a reasonable price (and considering that mike doesn't really need one on the defiant when we get back, we don't want to spend much on one)... so we're just going to hotel it back north. it's kinda too bad, however the other option would be buying a tent (and i have a couple at home already) and camping, but it seems like the rainy season is hitting early this year, so that might be a huge pain in the butt.
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