Tulum, Mexico

It is a couple of weeks late, but here is a report from my trip to Tulum. I have to say it reminds me a lot of Canggu in Bali, but 10 times more pricey. It felt a little ridiculous to pay $20 for 3 tacos with barely any toppings in Mexico… the land of tacos! Heading into Tulum city though, 20-30 min in a cab from the beach, and you get the best street tacos for 30 cents! We stayed in an Airbnb by the beach on the strip where all of the hotels and restaurants are. The beaches where super nice even though we had a lot of rain.

We arrived on Halloween, downed some food & Tequila, and went to a party. Me as Mia Wallace and Andrew as Vincent Vega 🙂

The next day was pretty much spent recovering on the beach with Sangria 🙂

I love Mexican food, and here are my top picks if you’re heading to Tulum:

Breakfast at Real Coconut Tulum. All gluten-free place with everything cooked in coconut oil and a beautiful ocean view.

Right across from our place, there was this great little spot – Los Bowls de Guadalupe. Super good bowls and smoothies, and perfect to watch people stroll by 🙂

Lunch at Frescos. Wow, the ceviches and fried crab tacos!

Like I said, the street vendors in Tulum City have the best street tacos! They didn’t have any by the beach, but you find them in the city.

Also in the city was the best coffee place Ki’Bok Coffee. Tried other places too, but this was the best if you’re into specialty coffee. They had great food and wifi so you can work there.

While in the city, eat at Humo. Nice atmosphere and good food. And drinks 🙂

When it comes to dinner, in the city, definitely try Tu. Wow, the food and drinks! Last pic of me when I’m stuffed and semi drunk after trying too many things off the drink list hahhaaaaa…

By the beach I liked Casa Banana. Big portions and tasty. I did take a pic of my whole grilled fish, but it doesn’t do this place justice, so I spare you of the dead fish pic…

And they have the best bread/bakery shops. Me at night suffocating myself with a chocolate croissant yummy!

Talking about pictures. I found this awesome photographer in Tulum and we went out shooting one day. I wish I always looked this good for real 🙂

One other popular thing in Tulum is yoga. Dozens of places. This one was at a fancy spa called Yäan Wellness. Ashleigh and I did some down-dogs and felt relaxed and yogi-ish after. Great place!

Saved one of the best things for last. Booked a Mescal tasting with a 3-course dinner through Airbnb. WOW! Hosted by a couple at their house and the food and Mescal was just so good! If you want to book, they are also on IG @cocina.selva. Oh, they had a couple of super friendly dogs too that chilled with us 🙂

Here comes some more random pics of heavy rain, me, more me, cute dog at the airport, cute cat at a restaurant, me and some more randomness 🙂

That’s about it from Tulum. I do believe I’ll go stay in Mexico City next year for a couple of months 🙂

Adios, Puma

Just back from…

…Tulum, Mexico. As usual I have too many pictures I need to go through, but will tell you all about my trip in next post 🙂 The week before Mexico we went sailing on a big sail boat. Or at least it felt big 🙂 We had a wooden sail/motor boat when I was a kid. I loved being out on the ocean, but hated scraping the fish eggs off the hull when you stored it in winter. This was a more modern sailboat and I even got to attempt to sail it. It ended up making a 360 degree loop that was called something similar to ‘the -ultimate – failure’ in sailor terms…

I left the sailing to the owner of the boat and did what I do best 😉

I now put ‘living/cruising’ on a boat for a longer time on my bucket list. Someone else obviously driving the boat and navigating or f*ck knows where in the world I’d end up hahhaaaaa… I could also settle for driving around somewhere in an RV and living in it for a time. I know I could navigate that with Google maps at least 🙂

Grabbed a taco dinner with the Russian & Frenchie!

Shot my share of fantasies, custom videos and whatever else came to my mind 🙂

Had to snap a couple of pics when I’m dressed in something else besides lingerie or a bikini. I think my ratio on wearing bikinis/lingerie vs regular clothes is about 50/50.

Thought I’d start working outdoors at least once a week. Work on those gains and tan at the same time. And I got this cool green spectator too…

I remember I promised to write about some books I have read. I’ve been a bit obsessed with the books by Tim Dorsey. I love the main characters Serge A. Storms and Coleman. They are hilarious and they’re kind of the male versions of Thelma & Louise, but funnier. But now I’ve decided to take brake from them and read some other stuff. All the books below I rate 4/5 Pumas!

Read these in Utah. Lonesome Dove – WOW! If you want a great western, this is it! I almost put it down though cause it was so slow in the beginning. Then I googled reviews and they said to give it 100 pages and you’d be hooked. So true and I ended up loving this book! 5/5 Pumas!

I read Charles Bukowski’s, Post Office, in one day. It just felt amazing that the main character – Henry Chinaski, kept on trudging through his days when it all just seemed so hard and hopeless. But I really enjoyed the writing and cheered for Henry. 4/5 Pumas!

An other book on the funny side – Me Talk Pretty One Day. Short stories from David Sedaris’ life that are written funny and makes you laugh. Not as funny and dirty as Chelsea Handler’s books, but I give it 4/5 Pumas.

This one, The Hard Goodbye by Chris Miller, I just recently finished. Super good plot, exciting read and you want to keep reading. The writing was a bit simple and cliche at some points though, so I only give 3,5/5 Pumas.

Another great book by Dennis Lehane – Since We Fell. It’s not one of his highest rated books, but I really liked it. Actually this is the 2nd time I read it, because I forgot I read it once before. There are some good twists and there could be a bit more action, but still 4 out of 5 Pumas 🙂

Interesting read – Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith. It’s like a comic book layout and gives good points about the possibility of open borders. As one review about the book points out – ‘Open Borders makes the case for unrestricted immigration easy to follow and hard to deny.’ I think this would be a great book for the decision-makers in Sweden to read and get some clues from 😉 4/5 Pumas.

Ordered a bunch of new books and just started reading The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben. A very good start so far 🙂

Gonna eat something else besides tacos now and enjoy the rest of my Sunday. Hope you are doing the same!

Kisses, Puma