[Eric in the Ozarks]

We spent a week in Oaxaca after a few days on the beach at Huatulco some years ago. The people there spoke an Indian dialect to one another but would speak Spanish if asked directions, etc. Oaxaca is a quaint city in the southern mountains. It featured an old style Spanish square where parents watched their kids (boys walked clockwise, girls, counter clockwise) pass notes to each other. This was “date night” for the teenagers.

[Travis McGee]

I made an unscheduled pit stop in Huatulco on my way from San Diego to Panama. Fueled up at the Shell dock after paying a small mordida at the Capitania’s office. Before I left, they explained that I was never there. Beautiful little port, with a long cruise ship dock and a few pretty resorts. At least, it looked that way from my POV for a few hours one Sunday morning.