Beach bums

Beach bums. That´s what Dan and I have been for the past week, mostly. We left Playa Del Carmen after 2 nights spent there and came to Tulum, an area known as Mexico´s backpacker´s beach bum heaven. We stayed in the town for a night in a sweet hotel that had a king size bed and no bugs or grass roofs. It was a night of being pampered before our excursion out to more beach side cabanas.

The first place we stayed in on the beach was this hut on a small cliff that had a great view and we could hear the waves crashing just feet from us. Our bed was on stilts and just turning over in the bed, as non disruptive as possible, was a challange. We thought we´d for sure be the last people to stay on it before it finally collapsed. Luckily we made it through the night without incident, just lots of teetering.

Once we made our way down to the beach for a swim, just a few steps down some rocks, we found ourselves on our very own private piece of beach. I tanned topless and no one was around to see, it was liberating. It was like being on a deserted island, which is a far cry from Playa Del Carmen.

We went walking to check out some other cabanas along the beach, cause ours had a few too many ants and the bed was, as I said, on it´s way down....crashing to the ground... with or without it´s patrons. Anyways, we didn´t find a place to stay on that walk, but we did find a place to shower... we couldn´t resist the tile walls and nice appearance of the shower and we were hot and our shower at our place was a darkish place with crappy wood walls and rusty faucets... actually, rusty faucet, the other one was only a hole in the wall.

The next day we took a taxi about 5 km down the beach and found a super place to stay! Big, cement floored cabana, with a sturdy bed! Many places to chill out on the property, beach front and we were just a few blocks from the Tulum Ruins, which we went and saw on Monday. We counted 22 lizards and iguanas on that trip to the ruins and it was great fun trying to pick them out of the landscape, since they blended in so well.

We partied with a group of Mexicans that were staying the night at the same place as us. We called the head guy "Montezuma" (secretly). He was very insistant on us sitting down at the bar with him and his friends and having a few drinks on him. We were skeptical at first, but he ordered and opened them in front of us and later it became clear that he has finally gotten a day off from catering to the Cancun tourists and came out there to party and he wanted people to party with... enter Dan, Amie and a sailor named Raoul. So, there was a group of about 8 of us and we had a great time.

This one guy " Little Richie" dove for the volley ball on the pavement and totally bloodied up his big toe, ouch! He was trying really hard at that point, cause Dan and I were beating him and his friend so badly, awww.

Anyways, we stayed there 2 nights and Tuesday was beach day, which was nice. Played some frizbee and swam and then came to town to stay in the same sweet hotel again. Today we went to Chichen Itza, one of the modern wonders of the world and it was pretty spectacular. We hung out there all day and here we are back in town at an internet cafe.

Tomorrow we head off to Belize, via bus. We´re hoping and expecting it to be a smooth trip and transition.