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Mandy we're digital Nomads currently traveling the world in search of summer we can call home
we just spent the last week in Oaxaca City Mexico and today we're heading off to the small mountain
town of San Jose del Pacifico most popularly known as the magic mushroom capital of Mexico
all right we're just at the bus depot at the moment we've had a pretty eventful morning so
far our bank in Australia is completely shut down doing some maintenance for the night so
we have no access to our money which has been stressful we only have a bit of cash on us so
that just added a bit more anxiety to the day we're just about to get on something
called a vomit van to take us to San Jose not very excited about taking a vomit van
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just show up and tell them I think this boss it goes a lot further than San Jose so leaves
like every half an hour and then um we'll just show up and buy a ticket
it's pretty easy hopefully we're going there so the bus goes to the church
well which is like another Big Town so that's why they use every half an hour
thank you
I made it I made it I'm gonna figure it out here we are this thing's made me tired same
sleeping pills yeah we each took gravel before the ride I didn't get sick at all
um I don't know if that helped but it made me really tired yeah we got welcomed by
a dog as soon as you go here we're just trying to figure out where we're staying
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okay
it smells so fresh out here it's so nice oh I already feel peaceful this is beautiful
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all right we just arrived at our accommodation here in San Jose del Pacifico it's very beautiful
up here already feels very peaceful the weather is a bit chillier even than
um Oaxaca City where we just work we've left firewood be here for us in this cabin it's so
beautiful this is one of the newer cabins where we're staying they have plenty of different ones
to choose from apparently this was the best place in town to stay and we can see why it's
pretty special up here all right well now that we're here uh we're gonna try and find
some mushrooms I know the place in town that you can go to get mushroom tea I'm
trying to figure out somewhere around here we can get them I'm not really sure how to do it
this is probably the perfect location to do it there's no one around here yeah it's really nice
really private really peaceful I think we're going to be able to sleep really well here
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because
uh so this dog was just on the street and we realized it was the
one that was way back at our accommodation and he
and he was wandering on the street we said hi to him and he came up to the restaurant
the entire Vibe of this place feels like somewhere you would come to heal and I
think a lot of healing is done here it's just really peaceful here very quiet and the weather
is just really comforting it's very mild it actually reminds me of where I grew up so it
was sort of like a feeling of coming home yeah even though it is a tourist place and
a lot of people come here for the mushrooms and everything just walking around town and
going to like all the restaurants didn't feel like a really big tourist destination like it
felt like there was a lot more locals around and it felt really welcoming the restaurants
are really affordable as well and accommodation is pretty affordable here too so I don't know it
doesn't feel like a typical tourist destination New Mexico one of the biggest pieces of advice
that we can give for coming here is to bring cash with you is an issue that we saw so many people
having here because there's no ATMs there's a few restaurants that do take credit card but they'll
put a 10 charge on top of your bill in order to credit so having cash will save you money and
a lot of places do not take debit or credit and you won't be able to get more cash out also for
the bus you have to pay cash too so make sure you have enough cash to cover yourself while
you're here and to get the bus out I'm going to carry our suitcases all the way to the office
what's the door open yeah yeah left the bloody door open
thank you