Writing takes time. I'm now in Vera Cruz. It's a port-town on the coast that I loved as soon as the pick-up truck that gave us our last ride drove in. We first crossed a couple of bridges over train tracks that gave us a clear view on the industrial harbor, a very familiar landscape to me. Then we entered the city, which was all old bell towers, palm-tree-shaded square and little shops and cafes. From the back of the truck, we had a clear view on all that. The sun was blazing hot, the air warm and humid, which was all new to us that just came down from the dry plateaus we had been travelling before.

I was feeling right at home.

Then, after driving through a couple of residential streets, we got to the beach. A little crack in the frame of that paradisiac pictures, that grew quickly until it all shattered. Hell on Earth. They dropped us there.

We were instantly assaulted by peddlers. All kinds of junk food was presented to us. A guy told us he would get us a seating for free on the beach just because we were so cool. It seemed to go without saying that you needed to pay to sit. We declined. We went on the beach because we wanted to change our hitchhiking trousers to something shorter.

We almost had to elbow our way to the water (mostly due to the big backpacks). There, we managed to find a patch of sand that was not occupied and did the changing.

The water was swarming with people. Every few seconds, somebody came to us with junk food or useless stuff for sale. I left quickly before I bust a cap and started slaughtering people left and right with my Swiss-army-knife.

But one thing I noticed and that made me wonder, is that a majority of the people that were in the water was there in full clothing. Without shoes, but with T-shirts and shorts or trousers. Like if there was a freaking Sharia enforced. I wondered for a while, poked left and right and finally cracked it. It is not to avoid offending Jesus, it is because Mexican people are very much inhibited about their bodies.

Let's look into that a little bit, will you?