Puerto Escondito is known as the Pipe Line of Mexico.  It is in a cove about a mile across, the waves in the middle are huge!  But the rip tide is stronger than I have ever seen any where.  So you go to the ends of the beach.  There are rocks there and that causes the waves to break consistently in one place.  This way you can predict where the wave will crest and the very best place to park your self for the wave.

Okay, we rented boogie boards, I know these  are the four wheelers of the ocean, surfers look down at them, literally and figuratively.  We got flippers to go with the boogie boards and just had a blast!  The waves were huge!  Some of the white water was 6 feet tall or more.  The waves were even taller.  Maybe 10 feet tall.  See the beach is very steep at the water line and the waves build up a puddle.  When there is enough, it moves back out, this is what a rip tide does.  Any how sometimes it will have waves going back out that actually break the wrong way.  Breakers facing breakers, when they collide you have an explosion on water, it is cool!

Of course you want to avoid the center of this, you have to paddle out past this to get to the good waves.  Chucks first wave was a doozie.  He got in a little late, it took him to the top, it was way too steep, then it just dumped him over the falls so to speak,  he dropped 8 or more feet straight down into the guts of the monster.  It rolled him like a washing machine and he came out just laughing his head off, it was fun.

We both caught big waves that pushed us 100 yards to the beach.  The first half you are in white water so thick you can not see any thing, all you have is the sensation of speed, lots of speed.  You know how fast a go cart feels, being that close to the ground, well imagine being in the wash, being part of the wave and bouncing and crashing around, it is fun!  I really like it here, it is cheap, it is pretty and the surfing is good.  I will plan on coming back here.  We have found some bungalows for 20 a night, on the water.   There is talk of having a Trail Rider Magazine Summit in a few months.  Of course every one is invited, I’m going to vote on Puerto Escondito as the location.

We had lunch under a thatch roofed hut and ogled the girls in different states of undress, took a nap in the provided hammocks then hit the waves again.  This time it was low tide and the waves were even bigger.  Oh what fun, I can’t describe the speed, the rush of it all.  I just know I want to keep doing it.  Tomorrow I’m going for the surf board.

So that’s what we did today.  It was nice to be off the bikes for a change.  The last few days had been very hard riding and we were both exhausted.  Not that swimming and surfing is easy, it is just a change and a lot of fun.

So did every one sign up for their Trail Rider subscription?  It’s a good magazine, and for those of you who are new here and also to the adventure riders.  We see a change in the magazine happening.  The Bossman has a 950 KTM and will be doing rides and reports on those bikes and I have a 640 KTM and I’m on this huge trip now.  Of course we will still cover all the races but we plan n adding the new adventure  sport too, so give it a try, I think you will like it.

Plus one more thing,  Trail Rider is always looking for fresh writing talent.  Would you like to get your toe in the door of a career in writing?  Trail Rider might just be the place for you.  It worked for me.  Most of the other publications out there are so difficult to get in, that I don’t even try, my stuff does not “fit.”  That’s fine with me, I don’t want to “fit” I want to go my own way, write my own thing, tell my own stories in my own way.  So if you hear the different drummer, drop Clipper a note and he will give you the particulars on how to submit articles to Trail Rider.   Are you listening Joey?

Okay, not a huge news day, but after yesterday, how are we going top that?  I’m not sure what we are going to do tomorrow after surfing, we probably should load up the bikes and move north a couple of hundred miles, but I’m not all so sure we can get away from here just yet.

So keep those cards and letters coming, we both enjoy hearing from home and how things are there, so let me know if I’m missing any thing and we will talk to ya soon.

Charlie and Chuck