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Side Trip to Acapulco

June 5, 2003 on 7:16 pm | In Mexico, Travel | 1 Comment

Since this morning, my stomach has been screaming “bloody murder.” Chris seems to be sulking and I can’t say I blame him. He wanted to go to a club-drink and what not-me, party pooper (literally) that I am just wanted to go back to our hotel after dinner. I tried to go for a walk, but started feeling sick again and it was time to turn right back around. The more I move, the more my stomach hurts. I’m also quite sunburnt on my shoulders, neck and chest from walking around at the Pyramids yesterday. I’m starting to feel like an invalid-Chris puts his arm around me and I yell “Oww!”-Chris wants to go for a walk and I tell him go slower..and then eventually, slower still. I feel bad, he wants to do all this stuff, but moving around at a night club and drinking just sounds like a whole lot of pain to me.

It’s been an expensive day. It cost around US$50 in tolls to drive from Mexico City to Acapulco. ($7.50, $5.50, $10, $9.50, $6.50, $9)….it seemed like they could pretty much charge whatever they liked. There’d be a new toll booth every hour or so-and then another to enter the city, and another to go through a tunnel-it was just ridiculous. But there would usually be an armed guy at the toll booth and it’s not exactly like you can just turn around-you just have to pay up and cross your fingers that you’ll have enough. It was a pretty drive, but a lot of poverty too. The Acapulco beach area was nice We swam for a while in the luke-warm water. It was invigorating. A lady walking the beach came up to sell me something for my sunburn, she called it turtle lotion and claimed my skin wouldn’t peal from the burn. I hope nobody hurt a turtle to make that. She didn’t speak much English. We relaxed while other vendors walked by offering their goods. We tried the mango on a stick sprinkled with chili seasoning, it was surprisingly good….as were the chili coconut slices.

Acapulco