It's Saturday morning and we are getting ready to start the weekend, it seems that the year is flying by. I look back at the blog and we were just at Thanksgiving and before that we were putting the camper away. That was just yesterday wasn't it?
Now it is time to get ready for our trip and we need to make sure everything is in order. We also must contact people before the holidays and exchange gifts, have dinners and do the pre vacation thing. Then, to top it all off, it is also that time of year when the stress of the season take its toll by wearing us down.
Three days ago my ear started to hurt, then within a day it became painful and now I am on meds to stop the infection that developed. Linda came home yesterday with a cold. No matter how hard we try to stay healthy when we are leaving for a trip, the stress catches up with us and we catch something. My ear thing is weird but manageable. I've taken some pills and it feels much better. Linda is holding on until we get down south where the sun can bake it cold out of her.
Our first duty was to make contact with Emily about her and big Jacks (her dog) taking care of our place and Kobi. Linda has met with her once already and given her a ten page document of Kobi care. She is used to the house and loves to stay because of the wireless access and that she is not at her place. She works at her job at the house via the computer and this location gives her lots of quiet, new places to run and a friend for Jacks to play with. We feel very good about leaving when the two of them are here.
Then we start the packing. We are trying to go light this year due to all the flight restrictions. One carry-on apiece and my "Darth Vader" with laptop, that's what we are trying for. It will be a challenge, but we need to try and make it work.
We fly out Tuesday morning and hop from Spokane to Seattle, to Los Angeles and then on to the Ctra Aereoputeo de Manzanillo north of Manzanillo, Mexico. The taxi ride from the airport always balances between a ride on "Timber Terror" and the final lap of the Daytona 500. I spend a lot of time watching Linda and laughing about how fast and crazy we are driving. On each ride I learn secrets on how to drive like a local in Mexico. Last year I observed that a set of topas, speed bumps, are great places to pass anything that is ahead of you, and the more you pass the more points you probably get. It is always like a computer driving game when you take the taxis of Mexico.
I'll be posting while we are in Melaque (the link will take you to our place, the small round pool is ours) again this year. We hope to visit Colima and Linda has plans to take the bus to a Saturday market in Cihuatlan. Don and Caroline, the friends that are sharing the house with us, have three fishing trips booked so we may have some fish pictures again this year. We cannot wait to get down there and in the warm weather. Like I said, I'll keep you all posted on our progress.
If you want to keep up with the weather down in Melaque, just check back here.
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