We got up around 8:00 . Both of our stomachs are in bad condition, we ate yogurt and Papaya for breakfast.
We then drove to the Sunday market at the marina at La Cruz located where the main highway and the road to punts Mita meet at the north side of Bucerias. It was a huge market spreading for miles along the breakwater avenue surrounding the large marina. We walked through about ½ of it until I became tired, so we skipped the artisans section. The only think we bought was a cotton guayabera shirt for me for 300 pesos.
After the market we drove back to Sayulita, although we stopped at a jungle fruit stand and bought three one kilo bags of sea salt for 50 pesos (6.6 lb. of salt for $2.70). When we arrived in Sayulita we bought fresh purified water, more beer, and some sulfa drugs for turista in case the one I have does not cure us and some Tylenol to treat a Suzette’s headache.
When we returned to the room Suzette took another ½ pill and some Tylenol and lay down to rest.
I was feeling much better and decided to venture back into food. I made a one bowl lunch by breaking two eggs into a bowl and then adding several spoonfuls of fish stew Suzette made last night and some water to thin the soup and provide more liquid in which the eggs could poach.
I ate around 11:00 and as of 12:36, my stomach bacteria have yet to reject lunch.
We rested until 3:30. We showered and dressed and took the raspberries, Brandy, the bottle of Tempranillo and stopped to buy a quart of vanilla ice cream at the Waikiki Creamery on the Main Street on our way to Linda and T..’s house in BaliVille which is about a ten minute drive from Sayulita.
Their house is a teak wood house from Bali that has been fashioned into a residence by adding bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom.
Linda was making nachos when we arrived with shredded Oaxaca cheese and canned jalapeños. She had made guacamole. She opened the manzanilla olives we brought and we sat on the patio in front of the house which serves as dining area and nibbled apps while TR soaked his hip in the hot tub next to the patio.
T.R. was hit by a car and sustained a hip injury. We discussed medical stuff for a while but the conversation went from subject to subject.
I consider TR a real estate visionary, because he can not only see the potential for a real estate opportunity in a site, but he can also manifest its potential. BaliVille is a great example. He imported teak wood houses from Bali and then designed and built house around them in the middle of a jungle a few miles from Sayulita. TR said the locals though he was crazy when he started building houses in the jungle, but now there are many houses located further out and he is not the last house at the end of the road.
Tr and Linda eat very simply. We found out that they had given up ice cream because the dairy doesn’t agree with their stomachs, so we took the raspberries, Brandy, and ice cream back home with us. We gave them a bag of salt, which they may use.
The menu was very simple flank steak marinated in a soy marinade cooked with Mexican green onions. We shelled and butterflied the shrimp we brought and TR grilled them on the grill after the steak. Linda sautéed a vegetable medley of red bell pepper, onion, carrots, snow peas, and squash.
They heated corn tortillas and diced the grilled flank steak and served each person two rolled tacos filled with flank steak and a grilled green onion, some grilled shrimp, and a small pile of vegetables. They drink beer, so practically none of the Tempranillo was drunk.
We enjoyed a simple meal and Suzette, still suffering from turista, began fading around 7:30. We said goodnight and planned to meet tomorrow at Mama Mia’s restaurant.
We were home by 8:00 and Suzette immediately took an antibiotic and went to bed.
I stayed up to drink a cup of camomile tea and look at the beach and the nearly full moon.
Bon Appetit
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