Thursday 1st May 2025 Ayampe to San Lorenzo
May Day up the workers! including the retired ones of course.

Lovely little pad last night, thanks so much Janna, made us fee so welcome, in the hippy / surfer dude place, lovely afternoon on the beach watching the surfers, guy came along, wanted us to pay for the deck chair, your having a laugh ended up getting a beer off him, could have had a marijuana joint, not for me, imagine what crap I would come out with if I was old enough to have one of them. Fair play to the little squally wag he never came back with the change, so we did pay for the deck chairs, Bingo was all for carrying them away, they are ours now!

We even stayed out till it got dark, thats only around 18:30, when I used to go on them 18:30 holidays was just getting in then, how times have changed. Bingo was cooking he wanted to try out the new all the new gadgets in the wonderful place, I was in charged of getting the groceries and having as much beer as I wanted, good remit for me. Lovely pasta dish, washed down with copious amount of beer, lovely evening, let the hippies, surfer and skater boys/ girls do their thing going to bed.

Never heard a thing, Bingo said he could hear music most of the night, me I can sleep on a washing line, never heard a thing, woke up in the morning fresh as a daisy, bring it on, nice to have a cup of coffee with the porridge proper holiday, reference to the pesky kids, who refer this to a holiday, you have to love them. Quite an eventful first few miles, Bingo gets hit my a dear hummingbird [Amazilia Hummingbird (Amazilis amazilia)], I get overtaken by my pet spider a again, sure it is the same one, very fury and a big sack, got to be the same one, following me on social media as well very strange.

Nice wonderful road through the forest and coast roads, every now again we get a glimpse of the Pacific, then turn back into the wilderness, loads of butterflies, allegedly the collective noun is a kaleidoscope, very apt, as they had a multitude of colours and shapes, however I would still think it should be a flutter of butterflies, kept me busy for a while, then get thinking of the Sitcom ages ago Butterflies, where did that come from, but made me chuckle again, as I daydream thorough the morning. I wake up when Bingo shouts would you a like a coffee, sure first place we see, my normal response, as we head in to a little village Machalilla, soft drink and a coffee, nice stop then on the road again, through Puerto Cayo, lovely road, ocean on one side and the forest on the other. Looking out for the animals, nothing much alive, few remains of squashed snakes, some of them quite big, be good to see a few living, maybe later.

Lovely bit of road, hardly any traffic, just winding up and down the coast road, heading to a little village / town San Lorenzo, not many places to stay, so will have to try our luck as there has been very little on the road for the last 25 miles or so, stop at a little beach shack, ended up with a meal, so good on that point then did the last few miles into the village, pretty bleak to start with, certainly not the surfing place of yesterday, as we cycled around the unmade roads, found a place and they welcomed us in with open arms, not sure what they was saying mind you, but the lady had a smile on her face, always a good start, nice little rest, then see what the delights of this little village has to offer.

Well other than the people not a lot really, completly different from yesterday, just nice people, but nothing open, one of the girls walked us around to a resturant, but sadly that was closed, so ended buying a few things from the only shop and made a meal at the digs, least we got some food and a little walk around a village.