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September 2020 - January 2021
Auryn and I are going to live and travel in Mexico for up to six months! Read more
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  • TravelerMexico
    Day 12

    Hurricane Delta Aftermath

    October 7, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    We survived Hurricane Delta! Thankfully it diminished into a category 2 before it hit land in PDC. Many buildings were still battered, but the damage wasn’t too severe compared to what it could have been.

    Power and internet slowly returned across the city over the next week. Some areas were back up and running right away, but others not so much.    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 13

    Hotwater Heater Incident

    October 8, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    After a few days we move to a different Airbnb within PDC (we’re basically gonna keep moving around in PDC until we find a monthly rental).

    We get to this seemingly cute place and I begin to do my laundry in the sink (things ya do to save money while traveling). As I am cleaning all of my clothes, the hot water tank that is positioned above me on a concrete shelf begins to leak... everywhere... flooding our entire suite.

    We contact our host and he is incredibly unresponsive. The cleaner hadn’t finished washing the room towels yet so I use my personal microfiber towel to attempt mop up the water getting all over the floor. Finally, after two hours we are given a different suite within the same building only to find that we have no toilet paper or soap, wifi, and most of the lights do not work... 😫

    We try to contact our host to ask for supplies to which he slowly responds that he will deliver them that night. As you can probably guess with our current luck, he does not drop off our supplies and he doesn’t respond to us ever again. We booked this place for three nights so we decide to wait it out and move to a different place in a few days.

    We are both hoping that our luck will improve... but alas, it doesn’t. The next place we move to (after hotwater-incident-place) is disgusting and infested with ants. We spend an hour scrubbing everything down. We do, however, have a smart TV so we spend our time becoming addicted to Stranger Things on Netflix. 😜    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 20

    Hanging in PDC Searching for a Rental

    October 15, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    We spend three weeks in PDC looking for a rental. We discover our favourite Empeñada place which is a little tarped off enclosure on one of the corners of the main streets.

    We try staying at a few hostels in the mean time where we meet some interesting characters... the first person we talked to at one hostel was a COVID denier 🙄 and we find out that the hostel owners establishment has (without his consent) become “protected” by the Mexican Cartel. Apparently they hold meetings at the hostel and occasionally kick people out for him. 😬

    We left after three nights and went to a different hostel that was really nice (even had a rooftop pool), however, the place was basically bro-city. It’s kinda hilarious hearing a middle-aged man talk about how he “stayed up until 2am” with his tinder date the previous night. Coooool story bruh. 😂

    Cost Breakdown (Approximate):
    Empanadas x 3 = 35 pesos
    Hostel for two nights = 1035 pesos    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 31

    Hurricane Número Dos

    October 26, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    We finally found a place to rent for a month, but it will be ready in a week, so we stay at one last Airbnb that we absolutely love! 😍

    It has hot showers (which we have found to be uncommon), a king bed, balcony, smart TV, nice kitchen. Overall a great place to hangout for a week while we wait for our monthly rental to be ready. The catch is... it’s facing the sea, which is only one block away, it has enormous sliding glass doors onto the balcony, and hurricane Zeta is coming. 😧

    This Airbnb has hurricane shutters, unlike our last Airbnb, so we’re actually feeling pretty safe. We go out for a final walk before hunkering down for the night to find everyone boarding up again. As usual the liquor sales stop and streets are becoming pretty empty. We do all the typical hurricane preparation (shop, stock up on water, candles, say our goodbyes to our families (just kidding) etc).

    We then settle in for the night and finish Stranger Things on Netflix until our power inevitably goes out.

    The first 5 pictures are of our hurricane prep and the last 5 are of the days previous when we're still loving this AirBnb.    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 32

    Hurricane Zeta is Cray

    October 27, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    We feel prepared to deal with Zeta because we handled Delta just fine! We’ve got our hurricane shutters, comfy bed, food, Netflix.

    Turns out that Zeta is actually really intense. All of the doors and windows in our apartment are shaking and rattling. The wind is howling. Things are slamming around outside. We watched a straw roof on a building across from us wave around like a tarp until it blew off completely (it's hard to see, but you can kinda see it in the second video).

    We still feel safe, however, because we’ve got our fancy hurricane shutters! A few hours into the storm (about 11 pm) our sliding glass door starts shaking and banging so loudly that we become concerned enough to setup some chairs in our hallway (away from all of the windows) and position the TV so that we can continue chilling until the hurricane is over. But the slamming from the glass door keeps getting louder and louder. We decide to *carefully* open the curtain to look out the window to see what the noise is to find that bottom of our hurricane shutter has come off and the hard plastic buckles and industrial strength tethers are being continuously blown into the glass door. At this time we also discover that water is leaking into our apartment and going under the bed. 😨

    We’re afraid that the glass is going to break and the apartment will flood so we quickly grab our belongings and put them on the table in the kitchen. We then go down to reception and they move us into a room across the hallway. This room is opposite side of the ocean and is much more quiet.    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 33

    Our Monthly Rental in PDC!

    October 28, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

    We finally get to move into our month long rental! 🥳

    We show up to our place and are about to walk in through the doors, excited to finally have some routine and security for a month only to find out... that they accidentally have put us in the wrong apartment! The landlord misunderstood us and put us in the apartment across from the one we wanted. We were bummed out at first, but we found out that the apartment we wanted was heavily battered from the hurricane and was unliveable for another two weeks while they completed reparations anyway.

    So we move into a different two bedroom that is still nice and works for our needs... except... the hurricane damaged the gas and internet connections. So for two weeks we have incredibly limited and spotty gas connection (which we need for cooking and hot showers), and we have limited to no wifi. 😫

    The year 2020 seems to continuously bring in unwanted surprises.

    Cost Breakdown (Approximate):
    Month rent = 9000 pesos
    Cleaning fee = 500 pesos    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 36

    Halloween in PDC!

    October 31, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    We don’t have costumes so we just experiment with my black eyeliner. 😂

    Downtown is pretty busy, but bars are mostly closed, or have very limited capacity due to COVID. I heard that bars might be fined if they have anyone in costumes during Halloween, however, I’m not entirely sure if this is factual.Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 47

    Tattoo or Tattwo?

    November 11, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Auryn and I were moving a couch in our apartment and we accidentally knocked off a picture frame which shattered. A couple of days later my foot found a big piece of glass that I had apparently missed while cleaning up. 😅

    A few days pass and Auryn and I are talking about how we hadn’t gone to the beach in awhile because of the open wound in the sole of my foot, and the consistent rain. I was talking to him about how I really wanted to get a couple tattoos that I had been planning for months/years. He reminded me that if I got tattoos I couldn’t go to the beach, or be in the sun and that we couldn’t do either of those things at the moment, so I should consider getting them now. So I got on Google, found a couple of artists, and got my tattoos!

    The first one is my cat and mouse tattoo. The artwork was done by my friend Iris, and the tattoo was done by a wonderful tattooer in PDC. She was very gentle and incredibly precise. We spent over an hour and a half just on tattoo placement. I’m so grateful that she wanted to get it perfect, because it definitely made a huge difference in the end result.

    The second one is of a chalk drawing my friend, Zack, drew years ago. I love this drawing and tattoo, but I will admit that I regret who I got it from. The tattooer was super rushed and rough. I’m definitely going to get it smoothed out and touched up in the future.

    Ultimately, I’m happy with my decisions! I love both of these tattoos!

    During this time we also decide to dye Auryn’s hair blue. I think that we were a little bored from being stuck in the house for so long. 😂

    Cost Breakdown (Approximate):
    Tattoo 1 (cat and mouse) = $60 CAD for drawing + $294 CAD for tattooing (with tip)
    Tattoo 2 = $77 CAD    Read more

  • TravelerMexico
    Day 50

    Dice and Beer on the Rooftop!

    November 14, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Our apartment has a lovely rooftop that has lots of chairs, tables, plants, and views of the city!

    Auryn and I spend most afternoons up on the roof sipping beer and playing a dice game called Farkle.

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