I can't stay mad at you Mexico

We arrived in La Punta, in Puerto Escondido (Oaxaca) in the morning and headed straight to the Air B and B where our bestie Sarah had arrived earlier that day. It was a 3 bedroom apartment house sitting on top of another apartment. We yelled to Sarah who was on the roof getting a massage that we had arrived. I opened the front gate, and Presley charged through and opened the bottom floor door (instead of walking past to go upstairs) and FIVE dogs charged out and immediately began attacking Bodhi. I tackled Bodes to protect him while Presley screamed at the top of her lungs (Sarah's relaxing massage over obviously), and Tyler abandons emptying the cab to kick dogs away from us. The dog owner (who wasn't wearing any pants by the way) runs out to help and is screaming to Tyler that its ok...to which Tyler yells, its NOT OK!!! When I finally stand up, I've got one dog puncture wound in my right foot but Bodhi is thankfully unharmed. Welcome to Mexico!

Several more unpleasant things happened...I got knocked over on the beach by some guy running from security leading to a bruised up leg on same leg as the dog bite, our friend got some bad news from home, I rolled my ankle walking down uneven stairs, and our friend, me and Presley all got sick in our final days there. But Oh Mexico, I can't stay mad at you.

The beach was so fun. There are huge waves in La Punta which terrified me for the first few days, but once we go comfortable, it was a blast. Luckily Presley had gotten so comfortable with the ocean on this trip, that she was happy to get knocked down over and over. And the food and drinks...we'd been DYING for good fish tacos and Margies, and we finally got them.

We released baby turtles one day. Both Presleys (Amber Sophia Cora Case) and Sarah's (Cheeky), made it to the ocean like little champs. But I had no idea how Hunger Games these turtle releases are. The seagulls were divebombing and breaking peoples heart's left and right!

We made a Christmas tree out of driftwood and shells, topped with a starfruit, which turned out beautiful. We couldn't find wrapping paper so we used whatever we could find. Santa's gift delivery was more humble than usual...but she enjoyed it all the same. We spent Christmas Day as we had every other day, at the beautiful beach. We missed our families tremendously.

We said goodbye to Sarah the next day, and packed up to our final destination, a nice-ish hotel about 25 minutes north of La Punta.

That morning, Presley registered a 103 fever and I had some sort of stomach flu. Add that to my hurt ankle that I had masked for sake of Christmas and we were a sorry bunch. Poor Tyler had to pack the entire apartment by himself. Presley and I barely left the hotel for the 4 days we were there.

We crossed the border back in to the US through Tijuana. As usual, we were super worried about getting Bodhi across because we didn't follow all of the rules. So we quietly hid him under my sweatshirt to avoid all the nonsense. After all those hundreds of miles I carried Presley on my back, she paid it forward.

We chased summer for 5 months, visiting 9 countries on 2 continents. We took 20 airplane flights if my memory is correct! It was an absolute crazy and sometime really hard adventure. I will never do it again. But I don't have to because these memories will last a lifetime.