And here we are - Sayulita

GOLDEN GATE CLOSED: January 10-12

We had originally planned to be dropped off in the city at our friends' house, but the Golden Gate being closed for construction threw a little kink into our plans.  Luckily, we knew a week in advance. And so we found ourselves taking a ferry from north bay at Larkspur into the city. 

We arrived at the terminal at 11:40 for the 11:40 ferry worried that we missed it. Luckily there was a huge line of people still waiting to buy tickets to board. Through some confusion Karen walked immediately to the ticket machine and bought our tickets, unknowingly cutting the 50 people or so still waiting. In the end we got on the ferry with time to spare. 

Chet and I at the ferry to San Francisco

We flew out the next day from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with our friends, Sam and Emilio, who are also going to our friend's wedding this week in Sayulita. We arrived in Sayulita, about 30 miles northwest of Puerto Vallarta, at about 6 in the evening.  Our friend Wyatt, who will be traveling with us for the next three months now, met us at the place we are staying and gave us a tour around Sayulita. We ate some amazingly delicious tacos that night...definitely going back there for more tacos this week!

Sayulita, Mexico from the top of where we are staying

Our outside patio at the AirBnb where we are staying

We were awoken by a crazy cacophony of noises ranging from roosters to blackbirds sounding like car alarms to traffic ripping up and down the cobblestone streets as the town began to wake up.  We spent our first full day in Sayulita roaming the cool little town and lounging on the beach, eating tacos for every meal.

Originally, we had found that Sayulita is an hour ahead of California and Puerto Vallarta is two ours ahead even though the two towns are so close.  All proud of ourselves for finding out this obscure fact, we told our friends and made sure to set our clocks appropriately.   Wyatt showed up an hour early our first morning.  But........we found out through several discussions, thankfully only on our first day, that Sayulita uses Puerto Vallarta time for convenience of the tourists.  Meaning also that Wyatt was on time that morning. ;)  Luckily, we found out the time zone discrepancy early on before the wedding and before our flight out of Puerto Vallarta.

Yesterday Chet went to buy some beer for us and our group of friends (he saw a great deal 72 pesos for 8). All proud of finding the best deal in town, he triumphantly returned and promptly discovered that he had just bought 8 clamatos (beer mixed with tomato and clam juice). Needless to say, he was very disappointed while everyone else laughed. We cracked one anyway and found that they were... disgusting.

Well, that's it for now!

Karen and Chet