Slow down.
Much of our family’s existence revolves around tacos. We love them in all shapes and sizes, with steak, fish, and chicken, both fancy and unadorned. This particular taco was fancy, and delicious. A small Argentinian owned place where the chef came out during the meal to ask if everything was okay. Price for one of these beauties, about 45 pesos ($2.50).
Notice the language used? Kind of tells you which portion of their clientele are the ones who need instruction.
Blond hair sticking out the back of the cap, random stick “treasure” sticking out of the pocket— our Dennis the Menace.
We keep hundreds of books on the boat, but there is no keeping up with Ouest’s appetite for them. We’ve had to expand the offerings to the online library.
Fancy tacos have their place, but nine times out of ten we’ll take the 15 peso corner stand taco. The only other thing missing so far on this island, as far as we can tell, is the 8 peso taco street carts. Though maybe they appear somewhere after dark and we just haven’t found them yet.
The kids had just wrapped up a series of races through the coco trees along the beach, and were starting to ask about going home.
Then they discovered the dead palm frond hanging from the tree, and suddenly they had another game to play for a while.
15 Comments on “Taco Life”
If Ouest is that much of a bookworm, you may want to think about getting a Kindle Paperwhite. As a bookworm myself, I find reading on the backlit screens of my phone or iPad gives me eyestrain, sometimes to the point of headaches. The Paperwhite’s screen is lit from the sides. Even the new ones aren’t real expensive, but all of them from the very first generation are perfectly fine.
I only spend a handful of weeks in the States these days, but I have cards for 4 different libraries, and they are absolute lifesavers. Between traveling and reading, Ouest will have the most amazing education. What a great couple of kids, nice job!
My favorite taco place ever is still a little hole in the wall near the zocalo in the DF, 5 al pastor for 38 pesos. I’ve been in Playa del Carmen for most of the last several months and, though I’m staying outside the tourist zone, I haven’t really found anything equal to it yet. Still, the food’s not bad, and I’m enjoying being in a small beach city. It’s big enough to have all of the conveniences and still be able to avoid the tourist zone, but small enough not to be crowded. And cheap, of course. Maybe not as cheap as a lot of places in Mexico, but still way cheaper than the States, especially for living near the beach.
Hi Rebecca, thanks for the recommendation. Ouest isn’t crazy about reading off the iPad – which makes us smile at her old school ways (wonder where she gets that from…), but as she continues to work through all her books 2-3 times each, she is going to have to change her ways. Maybe the Paperwhite will help.
We stayed in Playa Saturday night! And sorry but it just wasn’t our scene. I’m sure out of the main hub it can be nicer…But truly we are Pacific Mexico beach town lovers. 🙂
In the picture of the kids against the palm tree, Ouest looks like Ali’s younger sister. Book Fair starts Friday!!! Send me a list.
She sure does, if my younger sister was next to her — bingo! List sent! You’re the best!
I think ebooks are the only way to go for people like you (and me) who travel all the time. I even get all my magazines on my iPad – saving trees and my poor house sitter having to forward them to me on the road. Just do it.
For sure.
Check out the Android versions of eBook readers too. You can not download books from public libraries in Australia to a Kindle. I have used my public library ebooks all over the world, and Google Books has a lot of books to buy too, but I am allergic to that.
Thanks, Catherine, we will check out Androids as well. Appreciate it. We are a bit allergic as well – but with our lifestyle sometimes we must.
Just make sure the e-reader has a light but is not backlit. I used to have to get a cover with with a booklight attached to read my early Kindles in the dark, bc you can’t turn on a light to read when sharing a room with someone who is asleep. But the tablet will still be great for things with photos, bc the Kindles are black and white, except for the Kindle Fire, which is a whole different animal.
For a true bookworm, I think a dedicated e-reader with external lighting built in would make a fabulous birthday gift. She’s old enough, and I’m sure responsible enough, to take good care of it, so it could last for years.
For sure, thanks, Rebecca.
The picture of Ouest and Papa!
A love of reading is an amazing gift. My Mom used to tell us kids that you could go anywhere in the world in a book. I am an avid reader. My library sends me an email every January to “congratulate” me on the use of my library. Last year they said I saved $3,540 on books, ebooks etc. I am very happy to have passed on a love of reading to my daughter and she is doing the same for the grandkids. They love to be read to and the six year old is now starting to read a bit on his own. It is wonderful to see them make connections based on what they’ve read.
A steady diet of tacos….ummmm; yum.
That’s awesome.
Pat/Ali:
Bookbub has a couple of free books each day, also check out OverDrive, an App for the IPAD, you use your library card, and can check out E-books for free, you can also request a new book and 5/6 times, they have ordered it for me, and I was able to get it sooner than later. My Media Mall is part of BookBub, and you get the books through Amazon.
Appreciate the new newsletter for us Wanderer Financial members! Great insights and we are still in GG…
Hope your Apple trade really pays off, I have it in 3 different accounts.
Keep on travling and the kids look great!
Andrew
My eBook reader is a Kobo, and the Kobo site has a free book section, mind you I haven’t looked to see if there are kids or teen books. My library books are borrowed from my public library in Australia through Overdrive onto a tablet for my husband to read which is easy, but it is a bit more complicated to get them on to my Kobo reader from the PC/laptop.
Yeah, I’m very much an urban dweller, so even my beach places can’t be too peaceful or I get bored, lol. Plus, MEX and CUN are the only airports I’ve found so far in Mexico that have easy flights to the places I go in the States and Europe.
My daughter and granddaughter have fallen in love with Tulum, and plan to move there when their lease in Playa is up this summer. But I’m not willing to be more than an hour from an airport, so we’ll just have to visit back and forth. There are frequent buses, so it’s not a big deal. There are always a few trade offs when choosing to have no fixed address, it’s just a matter of deciding which ones you can live with and still move around in a way you enjoy. For me, everything seems to always remain a work in progress, but still pretty good on the whole.
I really love following your boating life. My sister and I thought about doing that, even though we both tend to get seasick. And we may still, yet, so I’m learning a lot from your adventures!