The calm before the storm

The next day the waves were a little bit rougher than we felt like dealing with, plus there were nearby storms on the horizon, so we decided not to go kayaking again. We just sat on the beach and played in the water.

We had brought enough food to last us our full 5 days in Mexico if necessary (you never know, with this pandemic and everything), but by the end of the third day we had eaten all our favorite items and decided it was time to go into town to check out the restaurants. We were only a few minutes drive out of Puerto Peñasco, so it’s not like it was any trouble.

The restaurants were all seating indoors only – apparently it was considered too hot to offer patio seating. Even the restaurants that had patios were not using them. So we opted for take-out.

I didn’t take a picture of the bakery where we got breakfast. It was just a small corner building in a mostly residential area. Sandy dirt streets, a few people and stray dogs milling around. The bakery was popular and had a short line of people sitting inside waiting for a table. We chose to stand outside, which was so unusual that they forgot about us! Luckily they were able to locate our food after we came back in to inquire.

Language was never an issue for us. We know a small, halting, smattering of Spanish, enough to get food, but most of the service workers in Puerto Pañasco are bilingual. Their English is better than our Spanish.

In addition to breakfast, we bought a little birthday cake.

Later that day we went to a different restaurant to get an early dinner. Again, they expected us to eat inside, or at least wait inside for our take-out. And again, we decided to wait outside instead. But there really wasn’t anywhere to wait outside, so we ended up standing in a rundown parking lot across the street from the restaurant with nowhere to sit while we waited. It was not scenic. And it was hot!

It’s hard to believe there’s a nice restaurant there, but there is. The restaurant was beautiful inside, with views of the harbor, and I really would have liked to have sat and eaten inside in the air conditioning, looking out the window at the bay. But we don’t want to risk getting covid.

Our vaccinations would presumably help keep an infection from getting bad, but I don’t even want a mild version of covid. I’m having some sort of low white blood cell, immune or autoimmune issue right now and I don’t want to stress my immune system. My immune system is busy already – it’s supposed to be doing any final cancer mop-up that’s needed after last year’s ordeal. It doesn’t need to be fighting off covid on top of it, even with the vaccination to help give it an edge up.

The food was excellent, once we got it home. Here we are sitting down to eat on our own patio instead of in the restaurant. We had our own great view!