Sunday, Dec. 07, 2003 - 5:56 p.m.
Picked up my car in Cancun. The drive was pretty uneventful. This place smells green. I hear the Yucatan is essentially a limestone slab shattered by a meteorite impact. (the one that did in the dinosaurs)I sit on the beach at my Zamas home. Ate some potato, cheese chicken empanadas. Instead of dough it's wrapped in a corn tortilla dough and deep fried.
There is a pelican diving for food here *right* in front of me. The sea is pretty rough right now. The sound of crashing waves is awesome- but it's sunny and it is setting now. A few clouds pepper the horizon. Work? What's that?
I've decompressed quickly and am glad that my friend Dorene talked me out of bringing all my other stuff. She was right, it would kill the ambience here.
I'm sitting here in my bathing suit 18ft from the water and about another 25 ft to my place. There are candles inside to use instead of the lights. There is power here, just that it's solar and wind and they like to conserve it when possible (no hair dryers here!)
They set up a Christmas tree on the porch of the restaurant. Pretty cool.
Stay tuned for more!
