melting miles October 11, 2004
Posted by Administrator in : nomadika, from LA 2 Panama , trackbackSo at last we left the USA_tired of preparing for The Big Trip and eager to start our journey…we get all sorts of reactions, admiration and envy on one hand, and family worry on the other. but we are travellers and we must dive into the journey, thats just the way that it is. Our one and only Mexican Gypsy friend, Talisman, joined us and the three of us boarded our beloved pick up PAKA PAKITA, headed to her hometown, Tepoztlán, Morelos, just south of Mexico D.F.
And we discovered Mexico is a BIG country…we left Los Angeles early in the morning, headed straight for Tijuana. What a contrast between the Empire of Consumerism and Mexico Lindo, total opposites …How can I forget the junkie shooting up on the streets of Tijuana, yards away from the border fence?
Our motto is “always forward” and so we crossed the Altar Desert, just what you associate with Arizona: super photogenic but hard to endure. 
Soheil at the wheel, mercury high on the thermometer and tali and I stuck to each other in the front seat. Our Cali plates and castillian accents make it hard to totally blend in, even Tali is deemed a foreigner (?) So I´ve started adopting the local lingo, sponge that I am. A mix ture of determination and toll fees got us to the coast and the ghost town of San Carlos, some sort of yankee colony-tourist trap, but we were glad to get wet in salt waters and escaped towards better places…Las Bocas turned out to be a far better destination, we had our fisrt taste of local character: Aquileo offered us his hospitality “with tust” and even played his jukebox so wer could hear Maná under the stars…he pointed out the constellation of la Virgen de Guadalupe and offred us fresh fish off his hook. Kind man that sent us on our way with the typical “que les vaya bien” and back to the road towards Mazatlán that turned out to be a tourist trap.
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