Pacasmayo

Our final destination for this trip was Pacasmayo....home to one of the best waves in the world. Its better than chicama but somehow not well known even though it's only two hours north. It's longer and stronger...always a perfect wall to carve and barrels when it's bigger. Its also picks up more swell than chicama. I had one ride that went for maybe two minutes with a couple barrels to it, did countless turns, a few floaters and a couple long pumping sections. My legs were burning! I just did a 15 minute walk back on that one. The paddle back is a workout. It provides the only hinderance to taking each wave as long as your legs can handle. Perfect wave.

Our hostel (los faroles) was great thankfully. The town itself was not that great. The colonial waterfront area was pretty but the rest of the town was largely under construction. And fIndIng restaraunts offering something more than fried fish/chicken or cevIche (good but can't eat daily) and crummy ambience and service on our lower budget proved difficult. Anyway, our hostel had a kitchen so we started to make good use of that and get veggies in our diet again. The kitchen was useful for fixing up breakfast and coffee early each morning because all surfing had to take place before winds kick up by noon. Although there was a really good sandwich shop and bread shop that consistently pulled through. 75 cents for a chicken sandwich and Italian rolls for a nickel. Can't beat that.

So our days started early at the beach (a ten minute tuk tuk ride away). I surfed and Kelly sunned and made jewelry on the beach (well, rocks...it's all cobblestone on the poInt). Then go back and eat and lay around then eat and sleep. ....we're not happy to be leaving this life. Despite the town being less than stellar, the wave is so perfect and hostel was so peaceful, I would come back to Peru just to visit Pacasmayo again.

Now it's time for a 2 hour bus ride back to Trujillo. Dinner and maybe shopping there for 4 hours until 830pm-430am sleeper bus to Lima for 8am flight to Mexico City with 7 hour layover (taco time in the city!) and then SFO by midnight. Man this month went by too fast.