{"id":5507,"date":"2016-03-28T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:20:37","slug":"the-last-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-last-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my last ride on the beach. \ud83d\ude41 It was just Sue and me. We cantered a tiny bit, but were content to mostly just\u00a0amble and talk. She leaves on Friday and we have one more activity planned before then.<\/p>\n

I came in ravenous and with no pressing workload, so I pulled on a pretty dress and headed to town for lunch on the Malec\u00f3n. For the first time ever, I decided to take a pulmon\u00eda there. I almost burst out laughing when the driver quoted me $70, telling him he was crazy and that I could get to Mega for less than that. Suitably chastened, he dropped the price to $50, which still felt steep, but was acceptable. We had a nice conversation on the way there and when we pulled up to the restaurant,\u00a0I had to gently refuse his marriage proposal. I think that was my fourth one this winter… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

El Fish Market impressed me so much the first time<\/a> I went that there was nowhere else to consider today since I wanted something special. I opted for the “brochetas mixtas” (mixed brochettes) with sweet peppers, onion, shrimp, chunks of salmon and mahi-mahi, and “callos,” which turned out to be scallops! I declined the potatoes and asked for some tortillas instead. Not a problem and… the chef subbed a lovely salad of romaine, tomato, onion, cucumber, and lots of avocado! Wow! I hadn’t seen a salad on the menu that seemed “subbable” for potatoes, so I’m glad it’s an option. There was some of their really good coleslaw and, surprise, they make their tortillas in-house on a comal. I am certain of this\u00a0because they are just like the ones I make at home, drier and charred around the edges, and puffy in the middle almost like a pita. The fish and seafood were\u00a0fantastic and very generously portioned. Two people could have had a decent lunch of this if they had the potatoes instead of salad. I added a cold Pacifico and a generous tip to come out having spent $220 (17CAD). Might as well enjoy the good life while it’s affordable!<\/p>\n

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I then meandered my way back to the embaracadero, popping in at Ley for a few sundries.<\/p>\n

I’ve got less than a month left…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was my last ride on the beach. \ud83d\ude41 It was just Sue and me. We cantered a tiny bit, but were content to mostly just\u00a0amble and talk. She leaves on Friday and we have one more activity planned before then. I came in ravenous and with no pressing workload, so I pulled on a […]<\/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":[856,794],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-horseback-riding","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}