Bob and Jan's Travels: La Penita/La Cruz de Huanacaxtle - January 10

Our last morning in La Penita. We packed up and went for breakfast at Hinde y Jaime's. On our return, we checked out and waited for a taxi … as we were waiting the bread lady was driving by so we bought bread, donuts and muffins from her out of the back of her truck. The drive to La Cruz was about 50 minutes. As we arrived at Puerto Bahia (our home for the next 2 weeks), it was like we were with family again. Our place is massive - as you open the front door, it walk into an open air foyer. Each room (bedrooms, kitchen, living room are all rooms by themselves connected with open air covered hallways). We hopped into our little pool and waited for Robyn and Scott to arrive. They arrived about an hour later and they hopped into the pool for awhile too. We went to Glorieta's for cheese stuffed bacon wrapped jumbo shrimp, coconut shrimp and garlic shrimp. Delicious. WE then took a cab to Mega for groceries - about $400 worth of groceries should get us through breakfast and lunch and drinking for 2 weeks.

The next morning, we went to the La Cruz Market - it is a great market - we like it better than the 2 markets in Guayabitos and La Penita. We bought some smoked marlin, hummus dip and had our traditional Big Italian sandwich (a combo of italian sausage, spicy italian sausage and pork) at the end of the market. We went to the pool for the afternoon and then came back to our room for Scott's famous Mojito's in our pool. Dinner was at Tacos on the Street - essentially one menu item - rib eye tacos (but there are several variations, cheese, flour or corn tortillas, quesadilla style). They also bring you a bucket of beer and charge you for the ones you drink. 16 tacos, 3 quesadillas, 6 beer and glass of wine later, we hopped in a cab back to Puerto Bahia - we brought 10 tacos back for the staff too.