Dec 5, 2008

I woke at sun up this morning after only a couple hours of sleep last night. I tried to cuddle up to Jaime for a little comfort on the hard floor. While it almost worked, unfortunately the softness of a warm woman couldn't overcome the tremendous discomfort of the cement floor grinding on my hip bone. Eventually I gave up trying to be comfortable and went outside to tune my guitar which had gone wonky from the altitude and now had a rather large crack in the back of the neck where it met the body. Everybody woke up eventually and we all smoked a morning J and gathered our things. Luis walked us to the market where we bought some food for the day and said goodbye to Luis. He gave us directions to where we could hitch a ride to a beach to sleep on. In the market we bought some veggies, fresh tortillas, water, tequilla, and cigarettes. When we got to the spot Luis told us about we put our thumbs out for about 5 cars when a nice black VW jetta pulled over and picked us up. The driver was a nice man from Argentina who told us he was late for work but didn't care and drove us right to the beach we were trying to get to. The beach was called La Playita and it was beautiful. It was located right where the sea of Cortez begins and the Pacific ocean ends. The waves were very large and only started about 20 feet from shore.

We set up our camp and then began the grueling task of doing nothing at all. Devon went for a short swim, but after seeing the 10' swells that were landing right on the sand Jaime and I decided it wasn't the safest place to go for a dip. We all layed around on the beach most of the day and took in the sunshine. I was pretty pale from the Canadian fall and the beginning of winter. Devon however was very dark and even Jaime who had previously told me she never tanned even had more color than me.

Around dinner time Devon got a fire going and Jaime and I chopped up some garlic, onions, and tomatoes and fried them on our tiny fire. We wrapped them in the tortillas Jaime bought from the tortillaria earlier and drank tequilla with our dinner. We also had sliced avocado which I generally dispize but is now beginning to grow on me. After dinner Jaime and I went for a walk to collect more firewood but were sidetracked by a brief make-out session on some rocks. Upon our return to camp we drank more tequilla and chatted about nothing particularly important for hours. Later on Jaime and I took another walk down to a super mini I had noticed when we drove in earlier. We bought some more Pacifico and had another brief stop on our walk back. We shared the beers amongst the three of us and discussed what we should eat the next night. After the beers were gone Devon made us some banana pancakes. After we ate them he passed out in his sleeping bag by the fire. Even though I had set up my tent Jaime and I decided to sleep under the stars as well. We had a short but nice bit of sex and shortly after falling asleep I was woken again by a cold wind that had come in off the sea. We both decided to relocate to the tent and had some more sex which was funny because at one point I got to loud and she told me to be quiet since her brother wasn't to far away. We passed out again shortly after and I had a much better sleep than the previous night.