Back in Mexico - Day 1

We’ve arrived! After Packing Master Ed’s superb job of packing (each bag weighed about 49.5 pounds!), the trip went perfectly. We crept out of the sleeping Hirst home at 3:45 AM taking the Super Shuttle to DFW. Cozumel’s version of the Super Shuttle, Henry (Rita’s Radar O’Reilly), came screaming up, parking Rita’s pickup in a place where no gringo would dare, leaving the doors wide open and sweeping our luggage onto his 5’5” frame and off we went! Before Henry made his entrance, we talked to our old friend Oscar, the timeshare salesman at the airport. In the decade that we’ve known Oscar, he has not been successful in getting us to see a presentation. You just gotta love him; he never gives up. When we walked away he hollered “ Hey, when you going to …….”. You never know though maybe one of these days……. Not!


We drove up to a beautifully clean house and thriving garden. Henry and his sister had been busy right up until our return, cleaning and even doing the windows and laundering drapes. Before we knew it our internet guy was here setting up our mast and antenna and hooking us up. And, it worked! Communication with the outside world! After doing a few very important things like finding our shorts and setting up a hammock, we went with Rita to Chilango’s (the pink home around the corner where they serve lunch at communal tables in their living room). When we were pleasantly full of our shredded chicken (pollo tinga) and squash with goat cheese (calabacitas) meals, we took a little siesta. Later, we went to Chedraui (the closest grocery store) for staples like beer and wine. A huge, deep night’s sleep under the ceiling fan that night. Ahhhhh.