Over 45 Years of Surf Trips to Mainland Mexico — And We’re Still Going Strong
Over 45 years of surf trips to mainland Mexico and we’re still going strong. That thought kept coming back to me this summer as Gina and I traveled the Pacific coast in our 2022 Mercedes Sprinter. What started as a wild-eyed 1979 adventure with my cousin in an old pickup truck and camper has become one of the great constants in my life. That's Me on the Far Left in San Blas That first trip at seventeen opened my eyes wide — warm water, mountains plunging into the sea, and people whose generosity I’ve never forgotten. La Ticla, the small indigenous village in Michoacán, captured our hearts in the early eighties and has remained a special place ever since. This summer we began with two weeks in La Ticla at the local campground. We kept things simple with clean eating — no tortillas, just fresh fish, avocado, vegetables, eggs, and fruit. Gina and I had prepackaged 60 days of beef and chicken before leaving the States, which we supplemented heavily with locally caught fish and shrimp...
