Let's see... where were we when I so conveniently eddied out of the blogosphere? On Isla Mujeres!

It is kind of fun to be writing about this now when it has disappeared off everyone else's blog and mind. Well, it's fading in my mind too but that happens pretty quickly.

It was wonderful to meet so many of the bloggers I read and to have time to just hang out with them. More of that is definitely needed.

I also really felt like I actually live in QRoo, odd that. I've had the condo in Akumal for over 10 years and we are there on and off every year. I have friends in the town and I feel semi-local when I'm there but I know that I am not a full time resident.

In the rest of the state, I've never felt like I belong. I don't keep up with the politics, or the resort openings and I never had any friends who lived farther away than Puerto Aventuras in one direction and Chetumal in the other.

That's a long ways but it is probably more honest to say that I have ONE friend in Chetumal (Calderitas actually, Hi Kathe) and 2 friends in Pto Aventuras but they are only here occasionally.

Anyway, I spend time in Playa and Cancun, I can find my way to any number of little stores and suppliers in both places but I don't go to either of them to see people I know. That may change now, I actually know people in both cities and even if I never go and visit them it seems to give me a better feeling of actually belonging. Plus, I now have 3 friends on Isla Mujeres and several in Cancun and in Playa and well shit, I'm just wired into the action now!

Touring Isla was interesting, neither of us had been there since our teens or early 20s and for me, the memory was all garbled up with other islands and other tropical beaches.

Stand outs for me were these series of zip line huts out in the water, it sure looks like fun - zipping from one to another on a line.


Plus, one line had dozens of my favorite birds, Magnificent Frigates. These birds rarely roost, they can even sleep while floating on air currents.


Another favorite is this picture showing the skyline of Cancun and the huge Mexican flag that flies over every port of entry.


We did a lot of interesting stuff, drank a lot of tequila, drove around in golf carts, watched Fire Boy do his thing and generally, had a blast.

I had a homework assignment. Can I just say that the internet ate it? First it got coffee all over it and I hoped it was dead, but no, you could still read it. Then I lost many of my pictures and that was part of the assignment. Then I thought of a way to do it with what I thought would be an easy picture to find on the internet. Well, after many hours wandering the byways of Helmut Newton's photography - I couldn't find it. So, it just isn't going to happen. Sorry about that, maybe later or in a parallel universe.