Ah the way plans change...

So Lauren and I have finally made plans as to what we are doing for the rest of our Mexico trip and for our Costa trip. Did I say plans? Maybe a direction as to what we might want to do would be a more appropriate way to describe these so called plans.

We have left the wonderful Plaza Huatulco to carry out the rest of our Mexico trip. We were headed to Playa Mazunte to work at the Hostel Einstein for free room and board. If you didn´t know we found the hostel through WWOOF and were under the impression we would be working on organic gardens at the hostel. Our taxi driver convinced us to let him take us all the way to Playa Mazunte. He gave us a great deal and I was able to practice some Spanish with him along the way. He ended up dropping us off at the wrong hostel which turned out to be a most wonderful thing to do! We ended up meeting Laura. Her and her husband, Matt, are from England but have lived here for the last 5 years or so. She informed us that Matt worked in the next town over on a reforestation project. We were very interested to learn more, especially after walking to Hostel Einstein and realizing WWOOFers were used there mainly for free labor cleaning rooms and such.

So Lauren and I left Playa Mazunte on the back of Matt´s motorbike. We are now staying in Ventanilla working in a protected area. There is a beautiful lagoon with an island where they raise cocodrilas (crocodiles) and venados (deer) and several other types of animals indigenous to the area. Several years ago Ventanilla was hit by a hurricane that wiped everything out so this tiny town is trying to build things back up by creating a protected area. It´s all quite wonderful. There are only two other people in the town that speak english so I´m working very hard on my Spanish. We had some great impromptu lessons last night over beers. There is definitely no internet in the town so we have traveled into Pochutla today to use the internet and buy some groceries to try and save some money. So I am sorry to say that I wont be able to post trip updates until Sunday when we are in San Crisobal de las Casas, our next leg of the Mexico trip. At least that´s what we think. ;)