I have been meaning to post something for 2 weeks, and I just haven't had the time to sit down to write. I really need some type of time management seminar for the unemployed.

Lesson#1.. It's not a vacation.. It's a lifestyle. I shouldn't party everynight like the people who are down here just for a week vacation. That's a ticket to a liver transplant down the road. But once the vibe is right and you are in good (bad?) company, its damn near impossible to just say no.

So the last week I spent in Jacó beach. The plan was to go in, buy a surfboard there, and get out. The reputation of the place as nothing more than a busy commercial street full of surf shops and a wide sandy beach break, barely so so for surfing, which turns into a red light district by night is rightly deserved.. cause that's precisely what it is. But in its defense, it is a place where people meet, and weird things happen... and what is life about if not the experiences that will make the tales you will tell your grand kids one day...  when they grow up though .. *ahem*.

If you make it down to Costa Rica though, the place to surf if you are in Jacó is Playa Hermosa. A short cab ride away, its got a mile long beach with a consistent selection of uncrowded peaks. I got stung there twice by jelly fish, but nothing too serious. Just small ones. 

There is not much else there though.. so staying there might be a bit too much for anybody by the Ted Kaczyinski's amongst us. Since I decided then that Hermosa was not an option, I finally was able to extricate myself from Jacó, and together with some friends, we took a fun speed boat ride to Montezuma beach. It was nice to be back in Paradise. If only for a day.

I was a bit sad to leave Montezuma, but well.. some things are only meant to be short I guess. My buddy Michael and I took the bus route up to Playa Carmen, where I am at the moment sitting in between Malpais and Sta Teresa. I think I will be staying here a good chunk of my stay. Its just the right combination of surf, good small town, chill people with a good vibe all around. My kind of hole. I don't really see a need to continue the trek up north to other places, and its really high time to just focus on the water. After all, its what I came here for. So hard when the possibilities are endless.