Tuesday December 14 2010
Our goal for today was to find Mike Monse in Aticama. He is a computer Tec; we wanted to see if he could get the speakers to work on the laptop. I wrote down the address and other information I thought would be helpful.
But first we had to catch the bus to Aticama. We had no idea what time the bus left or how often. We were at the station at 9am when the bus from Santa Cruz came in. This is the bus we needed to catch as it goes through Aticama on its way back to Santa Cruz. At 9:45 the ticket booth (desk) opened for that bus line. We bought our tickets but still had no idea when the bus was leaving. No time schedule is posted. At 10 other riders started getting on the bus so we did too. The bus left at about 10:15. Someone once told me the only thing in Mexico that runs on time is the busses, but I am not sure that is true.
We arrived in Aticama around 10:30. We showed a man that was working on a vendor’s booth the address we wanted to find. He said 2 blocks that way then left 2 blocks. That didn’t take us to where we wanted to go. We asked another man and he said there is no street in Aticama with that name.
After several failed attempts to find the street we decided to give up. We went to a café to get a drink (Larry had breakfast) and wait for the bus going back to San Blas. We asked the cook at the café if she knew where this street was and she said are you sure this is here in Aticama.
We thought we had another hour to wait for the bus, when I looked up the street and saw it coming. Larry had just finished his breakfast, which he said was very good. We jumped up to stop the bus and pay for our meal. The cook’s husband ran out to stop the bus and have it wait for us.
As soon as we got back home I got on the laptop and checked the address and yep I had the wrong town, we should have gone to Santa Cruz.
The bus ride was 60 pesos for the round trip for both of us.
Our goal for today was to find Mike Monse in Aticama. He is a computer Tec; we wanted to see if he could get the speakers to work on the laptop. I wrote down the address and other information I thought would be helpful.
But first we had to catch the bus to Aticama. We had no idea what time the bus left or how often. We were at the station at 9am when the bus from Santa Cruz came in. This is the bus we needed to catch as it goes through Aticama on its way back to Santa Cruz. At 9:45 the ticket booth (desk) opened for that bus line. We bought our tickets but still had no idea when the bus was leaving. No time schedule is posted. At 10 other riders started getting on the bus so we did too. The bus left at about 10:15. Someone once told me the only thing in Mexico that runs on time is the busses, but I am not sure that is true.
We arrived in Aticama around 10:30. We showed a man that was working on a vendor’s booth the address we wanted to find. He said 2 blocks that way then left 2 blocks. That didn’t take us to where we wanted to go. We asked another man and he said there is no street in Aticama with that name.
After several failed attempts to find the street we decided to give up. We went to a café to get a drink (Larry had breakfast) and wait for the bus going back to San Blas. We asked the cook at the café if she knew where this street was and she said are you sure this is here in Aticama.
We thought we had another hour to wait for the bus, when I looked up the street and saw it coming. Larry had just finished his breakfast, which he said was very good. We jumped up to stop the bus and pay for our meal. The cook’s husband ran out to stop the bus and have it wait for us.
As soon as we got back home I got on the laptop and checked the address and yep I had the wrong town, we should have gone to Santa Cruz.
The bus ride was 60 pesos for the round trip for both of us.
posted by Kathy @ 4:25 PM
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