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a perfect day

Wonderful day yesterday! Here’s a couple pics from the ferry dock in Playa del Carmen, you can see that the wind and waves were high. It was a wild ride over to Cozumel on the ferry. I don’t get sea sick (loud knocking on wood, never say never) but I heard some [...]

Is it March? why is the wind blowing?

Because I’m up early this morning and because it’s been a while since I posted pics from inside our condo, I took these. This is my solution to the cold, howling wind outside.
Again all night it howled and screamed and whistled, this time it was more muted because I shut the windows and doors [...]

Return of the Ginger

Chica and I drove over to Akumal last night.  I brought her because she’s the one that is a problem and I thought she’d do better with some more attention.   We got here about 10pm, came upstairs and crashed.  The wind howled all night long, it screams and whistles and howls as it goes between [...]

dim light, thunder, sleep

I love sleeping during storms, curtains closed, light dim, booming thunder, and snuggled under the covers dozing.  Bliss!
It’s much better in the daytime of course because storms at night are more frightening.   It’s also better in the tropics where you know you won’t suddenly have to run out into freezing cold rain to clear a [...]

empty beaches, empty town

I love this time of year here in Akumal, there is hardly anyone here.
We returned late last night and I got up early to talk to our friends downstairs before they left to catch a plane back to Canada.  It was hot and muggy, the AC was an incredible luxury.
After they left, I couldn’t resist [...]

escape to the beach

We took a short break from the city and came over to the coast.
I can’t really say it is cooler here but there is a sea breeze and the bedrooms have AC.
It is cooler when you are on the beach or in the breeze but it is about the same when you are a short [...]

sultry beach

I finally drove off around 5pm on Friday, just in time to drive towards a wall of black with bolts slicing through it.  Somehow though, I missed the storm.  It drizzled most of the way across the peninsula and I could see where it had previously rained heavily in places, but not on me.  That’s [...]