{"id":1066,"date":"2014-11-07T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:19:30","slug":"getting-a-lay-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/getting-a-lay-of-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Lay of the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale came over this morning as I was starting on the apartment pics post, so I closed up and followed her out to breakfast on the beach. The only option on the breakfast menu was eggs, so I ordered chicken tacos off the lunch menu! This was my first real breakfast in Mexico! \ud83d\ude00 Dale insisted on treating me and I provided the tip. We got out of there for something like 140 pesos total!<\/p>\n

She then took me for a walk through the main part of the village. Yes, I will have pictures at some point. \ud83d\ude42 My camera ran out of juice this morning, sorry!<\/p>\n

We made our way to the grocery store, further away than I expected (it’s not far, the village is bigger than I expected). The store, called The City Deli, NOT the mercado, is small, but has the essentials except for meat (as far as I could tell) and is no worse than some of the small grocery stores I’ve shopped at in Canada. I asked for “las cosas para hacer el fuego” (the things to make fire) and was offered matches and a lighter. See, no language barrier! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

I got whatever looked good for food to get me through a few days (more details below the pic), as well as a broom for inside, and a pair of heavy duty flip flops for beach walking. I was disappointed by the avocados, though, and didn’t buy any.<\/p>\n

Grand total for all this?<\/p>\n

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Let’s add it all up, shall we?<\/p>\n

flip flops (EXACTLY what I was hoping to find)
\nbroom
\nmatches
\nred onion
\n2 small tomatoes
\n2 small orangey things (clementines?)
\n1 banana
\n1 apple
\n1 block of Oaxaca cheese (apparently tastes like Monterrey Jack, but has the texture of mozzarella)
\n1 container of strawberry yogurt
\n1 package of corn tortillas
\n1 bottle of electrolyte juice Dale highly recommended (not my usual thing, but if I’m not going to have much appetite, a good thing to have on hand)
\n2 small packages of macaroni
\n1 package of crackers<\/p>\n

Total amount paid: 218 pesos (18.26 CAD\/16.11USD)! That includes the shoes and broom! There are no prices marked anywhere in the store and I won’t worry about prices from now on. I was sure I was going to have to ask Dale to spot me some money since I only brought 300 pesos with me. Hah! I think I might be able to afford living here as long as I don’t get into the habit of eating out a lot!<\/p>\n

The village is small, with a paved main road and some services, including a police station and a basketball court for the kids. There are a lot of restaurants on the beach, too. Not much was open today in the village proper, but it’s a holiday so there might be more going on Monday. Really, this is way more than I’m used to at Haven and I doubt I’ll get bored, especially once the internet is reliable! Plus, Mazatlan is just minutes away on the ferry! It’s probably a 10-minute walk to the grocery store, so 15 minutes to the village ferry. This is another ferry that goes to a different part of the city. Dale is going to show me the ropes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dale came over this morning as I was starting on the apartment pics post, so I closed up and followed her out to breakfast on the beach. The only option on the breakfast menu was eggs, so I ordered chicken tacos off the lunch menu! This was my first real breakfast in Mexico! \ud83d\ude00 Dale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}