We made it to the beach last night and it is so nice here. The cool beach breezes are helping our spirits immensely. Over the last couple of days all three of our cohorts have gotten sick. Maia and Eric had stomach problems, and Jeremy has some kind of upper respitory infection. We got the A/C room so that Jeremy and Eric would start feeling better. We got Jeremy on Cipro and his fever is dropping, so that’s a good thing. Eric sharted himself today. I had trouble not laughing. I told him all my poop stories to help ease his pain.
The ocean is beautiful and the beach reminds me of Zipolite, Mexico, but smaller and no large hotels, just beach huts. Its the end of the season, so half of everything is closed, but there are a bunch of westerners here. We’re not really meeting too many people cause we’re in a group, but I think we’ll probably make more of an effort after we’ve relaxed a bit more.
We found a bike for Jeremy today, and I think Eric will rent one. Its a Royal Enfield Machismo and will do fine, so we’ll start heading down the coast in the morning. We won’t hit the mountains for a couple of days, but that will be a cool relief from the heat, which is easily over 100 degrees each day.
We went body surfing this afternoon. Jeremy and Geoff rented boogie boards and we rode around for quite a while. I got a little bit sun burned, but thank god for SolarCaine. We’re using SPF 50, but I’ve got to slather it on every 30 minutes or so to avoid burning. Being this close to the equator must be the problem.
We’re staying at the Palolem Beach Resort, which is the same place I stayed at last time we were here, but they’ve added a bunch more rooms. Luckily everything still looks the same, which is amazing since last time I was in here was in 2000. When I was here then we hit a similar beach at the southern tip of India, a place called Kovalam and it used to be quaint. Now its booming with hundreds of five story hotels, three deep in all directions. Thanks a lot, Lonely Planet.
It sounds like Eric might go rescue “Red Rocket” our third Enfield up in Diu. He’s got a couple more weeks after we leave and it would be a fun adventure. Check out the google map that I’ve created that shows exactly where we are. If you zoom all the way in, you can almost see us on the beach 
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Your trip sounds like fun! I’m a bit jealous.