The rest of the day was relatively uneventful. We did find a yummy restaurant along the main strip but just south of downtown. They have quite a few veggie options for us and they have a "Thai" branch just a bit farther south. So, we'll probably check that out later. We spent the later afternoon walking around town and ended up having dinner at a cute Italian place where the woman working spoke no english at all. Joe knew enough spanish to get by though for the most part. Trying to get bread to go with his veggie lasagna was a bit tough though. Haha.
We have another dive trip scheduled for tomorrow morning. We're going with the same couple we went with yesterday and probably another person or two (I'm not sure how big the group is). Hopefully all goes well with Joe's ears.
-Miranda
Our scooter parked by the road when we went to check out the water.
The iguana.
The view from our hotel room.
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Bus to Playa del carmen, Quick and nice. Found a nice lunch place next to a forested area, the cafe had nicely built around some large tree trunks, so that they could continue growing above the roof. Miranda spotted an unknown large rodent of some kind.. grackles wandering around.
Ferry to Cozumel was fast and easy, $13 each. Cozumel has been a little less "Annoying" than Cancun. We struggle every meal to find something More to eat than greasy Cheesy stuff, but will survive
There are several Giant 12 story cruise ships that stop by and dock here each day.. . . that's a bit much. ..
We stayed our fist night $35 at hostelito, it was adaquate, but wifi was weak, no filtered water, and no breakfast. So, we've now moved to a economic hotel Hotel Plaza Cozumel ~$50/night where we get solid wifi/water refills/ and a good solid healthy breakfast buffet.
We went scuba diving today, 2 dives. I paid for a dedicated Dive master so I could take my time with my ears. I managed to get down but it took longer than I hoped. Both times surfacing I also had bloody noses.. and I'm still recovering from head-pressure pains several hours later, so we'll take tomorrow off diving. Hopefully It gets better again.
-Joe
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We arrived in Mexico last night around 7:30pm, hopped on the bus to downtown and found our hostel without much trouble. From there we went out to find dinner, but by then it was already after 9. So, we just ate at the restaurant attached to the hostel. Unfortunately, it's looking like finding vegetarian options here is going to be a bit tough, but we've done all right so far.
This morning we went out for a walk to explore the area. We didn't see much of interest. We did find a small taco place that even had a "vegetarian" section of three different type of tacos. Those were pretty good. We even missed the hardest part of the raining (which still wasn't exactly a drenching rain). In the afternoon we headed to the beach. There we mostly just walked around checking stuff out. We did find a public beach access. It was super windy and cloudy, but the water was still crazy blue and there were pretty decent sized waves. I can see the appeal of the beach. It was pretty nice. We found dinner around the time it started sprinkling again then eventually caught the bus back to the hostel.
Cancun has been pretty uneventful for us, but tomorrow we're headed to Cozumel where we can hopefully start some fun activities.
-Miranda
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On Monday we leave for Mexico! We're flying down to Cancun. The plans are to stay there for a couple days then take a bus, then a ferry to Cozumel where we'll do some scuba diving. So, we'll start updating the blog regularly again. It will definitely be nice to be in some warmer weather for a bit.
-Miranda
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Ever since we got back from our trip we've been looking for a new place to live. We both enjoyed the house near Port Wing and living on 40 acres, but it was just too far from town. We kept finding ourselves having to drive to Duluth and the hour drive was just getting to be too much. Especially in winter when it gets dark earlier and deer seem suicidal.
So, we looked around Duluth and weren't having much luck. We then decided to make a drive out to Montana to visit Pat and Nancy and then continue the drive to Washington to look there. Again, we didn't have much luck, so back to Minnesota we went.
Eventually we found a place not far from Pike Lake. It's a bit farther out of town than we were hoping, but it's on 4.7 acres on a dead end road, which is great for the kitties. Right now we don't really have furniture, but it will be great once we get things set up better.
-Miranda
The house.
The kitchen. This is the only room that's really put together.
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