On The Road Again

Hola.

My family and I are on a trip in Mexico and will be travelling around the Yucatan and Chiapas for five weeks. I am really excited to be on another trip with my family. We arrived in Cancun on Monday 1/25/16 and stayed there for two nights. We ate most of our meals in Parque de las Palapas. The plaza had a ton of food vendors and a place where you could eat, there would also be a man or woman playing music. The last night we were there a lot of people started dancing. The food there was really good and some of the vendors sold delicious drinks like licuados (blended fruit, milk and ice) and agua frescas, including horchata and pina. Some of the foods I ate were enchiladas, quesadillas, soup, and burritos. My favorite was the quesadilla with papas, chorizo and queso on a homemade tortilla.

The delicious quesadillas

A man playing music in the plaza

The second day we were there we wanted to go to the beach so we got on a bus and it drove us to Zona Hotelera. It was kind of weird because there were a lot of resorts that lined the public beach but they wouldn’t let you get to the beach. We ended up having to walk for a couple of miles until there was an opening to the beach. We went swimming for a while then took another walk along the beach and at the end there was another resort so we couldn’t get off the beach. I think it is really weird because the resort workers even agreed that the beach was public but the building was private so we couldn’t go through it.

Some resorts we saw

We left Cancun today and rode a bus to Tulum. It took us a while to find our casita but when we did we were starving. We went to lunch at a Pescaderia and ate fried fish tacos. The fish was fried whole with the head and all! It was super good. After lunch we rode our bikes around for a while then found a market and bought some mangoes and avocados. Riding around on the bikes was a lot different than how I usually ride because it is so flat and the bikes don’t have suspension or brakes on the handle bars. The problem with no suspension is that there are sometimes potholes and cracks in the road so you bounce around a lot. A lot of people here ride bikes and motorcycles around but there are some cars. We will be spending another few days here, riding our bikes to the beach, eating good food and doing homework (yayJ).

Check out my sweet ride