paletas+ ice cream

Well our visit to Todos was worth the drive (about 1.5 hours) arriving to Cerritos beach for a couple of great surf hours for Tristan and some beauteous beach time for me and the girls.  
The whales have been swimming not far off shore and there were so many of them, you would think there was some kind of sale on krill. I'm just saying, tales, spouts, little ones and big boys too, it was so cool that eventually it was boring, so many whales. Of course I am just kidding, but the pacific side whale show tends to impress with frequent viewings of small pods of whales that kind of hang in the water close to shore.


We went over to Peter Townsends totally hip palapa bungalows (that he rents out at a very reasonable rate) pretty early and figured out our sleeping arrangements before heading in to town.  My 1991 Land Cruiser is kind of my favorite car made, especially for all of the off road driving we do, down in Mexico.  It is about 3-4 miles of washboard dusty, cactus lined roads to get you from the beach palapa to the paved road.  



We left Tristan in the care of a manly dude neighbor that was gearing up for the Superbowl and my sweet girls and I, breezed over the dirt road in our rig built to last and cruised the 8 miles into town. If I suggest that this whole trip was planned to settle my craving       for home made passion fruit ice cream, I might be exaggerating, a little.
On 'this dark dessert highway' right around the corner from the Hotel California you will find, the best Mexican made Ice cream I have yet to try.  


There are many small 'paleterias' (Popsicle shops) most are called Mazatlan..........something, but nothing compares "la paloma"(the dove).