Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

At the end of a long dirt road through coconut plantations and past small Mexican homes with pigs and chickens in the yard, there is a small fishing village. In this place, men sit on their front porches mending their nets each evening. Children play barefoot in the raked streets and offer candies to the little gringos through the openings in the block walls of the only guest house, inviting them to play ball and clapping games with their hands. Women make hammocks by hand to sell in the nearby resort city. During the day, the beach is vacant, aside from a handful of local children running in the waves. The boats of the fisherman, resting onshore the prior evening, are gone. Their owners out tending to a days work. Barra de Potosi was a place of charm, a true Mexican experience.