Isla Mujeres

Hello from Mexico. Here I am in Isla Mujeres, across a thin strip of water from Cancun.

Mexico has been treating me well, though the heat is a bit of an exaggeration.

Ellen and I spent our first night in Cancun, in the luxurious Westin Resort, at the edge of the hotel strip in Cancun. We had found a good deal through Priceline, and so figured that we would pretend to be rich people for one night.

Let me tell you--being rich is pretty cool, though it can be tough pretending to be rich. Our room was beautiful, the ocean was right outside our door, we had ten different pools to choose from, pool bars, chilled drinks, three different restaurants, and the most comfortable beds this side of Tennessee (where, I hear, they have quite comfortable beds.)

All of that, and a bottle of water only cost EIGHT DOLLARS!

Needless to say, we enjoyed our stay there, though we knew that the honeymoon couldn´t last too long. And so, as soon as our lost luggage (oh yes, lost luggage...sometime I´ll write in this space my opinions on Spirit Air) arrived, we worked our way to the docks to grab a boat to Isla Mujeres.

Isla Mujeres was once a small fishing town, and is now a small fishing town with a lot of tourists, a ton of snorkelers and snorkel purveyors, and even more golf carts and scooters. It is, against these odds, a beautiful, tranquil, lovely place. The snorkeling is wonderful, the people are friendly (for the most part), and the beaches are beautiful.

The weather is very, very hot, but very nice. We quickly found (during the course of a very long first night here) that it is well worth the extra cash to rent a room with air conditioning.

Not much more to report from here. Everything is going perfectly, and we are about to head off to watch the sunset with a cold tropical beverage, some chips, and a deep bowl of guacamole.

More soon, with pictures if time allows.