MEXICO BABY!!!!

You'll never guess where we are at the moment, well okay maybe you will.

We are in a little place called Tecoman. Its a small town on the West coast of Mexico.

After more than 50 hours of travel we arrived today (23 march) safe and sound. We flew first to LA and then on to Mexico City and from there we caught a bus to Colima and the Irbys (new additions to the family) met us there and drove us to Tecoman.

Now your probably wondering why the bus???? Well yes good question especially when I tell you that the bus trip alone was 10 hours long. The buses in Mexico are awesome. This one only has 24 seats on it and they fully recline so you can lay down, TV monitors, your own closet space, bathrooms etc. It was very quiet apart from the man that keep sleep talking loudly in Spanish, that was funny!! You also get drinks and food on the bus. Cheap too, the whole trip, 10 hours for two people cost less than $200 nzd!!!

Harold and Susan then took us for breakfast where we had our first sit down meal in Mexico. It was okay, not great though. They also took us on a little tour of Colima (40mins from Tecoman) and to Sams Club (department/supermarket store), lets just say we wont starve here, no no no. The food variety was soooooo much more than in Belize and the price, man sooooo cheap.

On arriving in Tecoman we were taken to our apartment. This belongs to another brother and his wife who have kindly offered it too us until we can find our own place. It is normally used by the CO or by visitors when they come. It has everything we need and more in it.

Now lets be honest here, when we were told from the street, this is where you will be staying, I thought, oh man your kidding, this coud be interesting. But when we went upstairs and inside we were very pleasently surprised. It is very very nice and just the perfect size. I wish we could stay here but Im sure there is something similar waiting for us.

I tried to get some sleep in the afternoon and then we met Jasa and Dustin. These guys have also been extremely helpful in our planning stages so it was fantastic to met them in person. The four of us went to dinner and had Tortas con pollo y todos los ingredientes basically a huge chicken sandwich with everything in it. Very very good!! This I think was $3.90 and I had a rice water drink which was a first but was yummy, kinda cinnamon tasting for $1!!!! yes that was an entire dinner for $5.

So why Tecoman? Short story is we met the Irbys at the Mexico International Convention and when they found out that we were heading back to NZ and were looking for somewhere else to go they grabbed the bull by the horns and said well come to Tecoman.

The congo is an english one, with only 20 pubs. They have a huge huge territory to cover but cant get around it so there are massive areas that havnt been touched. In the 25% they have done there is so much interest they cant keep up with it, thus another reason for not being able to get to the rest of the territory.

Right now it is 12:30am and there is no traffic noise like during the day but there is loud music and drums being played near by, actually it sounds like one of those marching bands only theres no marching.......and there is a guy on a skateboard outside too. There are still some cars going by but not many. I think it will be quite hard to find somewhere that is quiet so that will be interesting. There are also church bells in different churches that chime all the time.

Unlike Mexico City, Tecoman does not stink, well not yet anyway so thats a bonus for sure! There are food smells around from street vendors etc. We have seen stray dogs and cats but not on the Belizan scale which is nice too. Also looks like we might not have too much of a problem with bugs but that might just depend on where you live, will keep you posted on that one.

Next time I will describe Tecoman for you and I will see if I can put a couple of photos up for ya too. Then you can really imagine where we are.

Dont worry about our safety, we are in one of the safest towns around and in the safest state in Mexico too. All good things. If you hang with the drug lords and do dope then you are a dope and will be in danger so we will just have to stop that habit!!!! Its all about being sensible, staying with the right people and keeping your wits about you, just like anywhere.

Please please please keep in touch we would really love to hear from you all. This we hope is a permanent move so we would benefit greatly from your emails and comments on the blogs. My email address is tymccall@gmail.com so please keep in touch!!

We have a very busy time ahead of us, trying to find a house, doing the invitation work and coping with the language are just the tip of the iceberg. But we wont let it sink us, chin up and face to the wind!