Second Week at Xpu-Ha

Playa_ZocaloTwo weeks almost gone, two weeks until we fly out for the Christmas Holidays. We have had pleasant weather here all week, not too hot, not too cool and a few rain drops here and there. We miss our 4 kids their spouses and our 12 grandkids, hopefully we will see them all at our big Christmas party back home near Cleveland, Ohio.

Playa_5th AveLast Friday we made our first visit to Pizza Leo’s. Our RV friends Robb & Percilla from Manitoba were kind enough to drive us there. Of course we got the Extra Grande Leo, so I have pizza for lunch all week.

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Playa_PlatesWe jumped on a Collectivo, a big van that runs from Playa to Tulum and back about every 10 minutes for about 30 pesos per person.

The street that runs closest to the beach in Playa is called 5th avenue. It’s a walking street and it goes on for at least 30 blocks. The stores seem to repeat over & over again as you walk to the North from the Ferry dock; jewelry, cigars, restaurant, Mexican crafts (of course some made in China). bar, ice cream shop, t-shirt shop, silver, massage parlors, clothing and bathing suits. We found a few things to bring to the party.

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Here is Peggy with a few of her thin friends.

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Of course my friend looked just like me.

Took another kayak trip to Puerto Adventuras.

Our RV at Xpu-HaWhen we took our beach walk this morning the water was as calm as I’ve seen it and there was hardly a cloud in the sky.

I decided to take a picture showing the other side of our campsite next to the huge Impatiens planted by Sigrid our German neighbor. She stays here year round and doesn’t mind the summer heat. I changed the header picture to show the palms on the right side of our new motorhome.

PuertoAdventurasBeach

The beaches at Puerto Adventuras are not near as nice as the beautiful white sand beaches of Xpu-Ha. You can walk on our white sand beach and the sand feels cool even in the heat of the day.

Puerto AdventurasIt’s about a 3 mi paddle one way and it’s a fun place to visit. They must have hundreds on Condos, time-shares and 5 hotels, so it is a big place. They run fishing, sailing & snorkel trips.

They let tourists swim with their Sea Lions, Manatees, Nurse Sharks and Dolphins. It seems well run and they are not abusing the animals.
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Feeding the big Manatees lettuce.

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I thought I would try the video on my camera to see how it works. This is the first video post that I tried to post. The video is a little short I guess.

 

Big Storm Last Night – Mucha lluvia

We have been coming to Mexico for many years but during the winter months we have never really had a severe thunder & lighting storm. Last night was an exception.

 

RainbowXpuHaThe weather took a turn yesterday morning and really got hot & humid. Many of the campers were running their A/C. We just used our fans as we normally get a good breeze off the water. We got a few sprinkles during the day and wouldn’t you know it, it rained during our Happy Hour. So we all huddled under our new big awning.

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I didn’t take any happy hour pictures yet, so I thought I would post a picture of Claude & Mags from last year. They didn’t come to Mexico this year and we miss them both.

It stayed very humid and at midnight it started to rain. I could see lightening flashes in the distance but no thunder. Then out of the southwest the storm approached with very loud thunder and a really heavy rain storm. Our new awning worked OK, dumping the water off as it filled and since it wasn’t really windy I left it down to keep our patio mat and chairs dry. We had to close up everything tight but it cooled enough that we slept soundly until morning.

I expected to see washouts in the sand and stuff strewn about but everything looked about normal. I guess the sand can really soak up the rain and with no heavy wind no palm fronds came off the trees.
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HappyHourWomenIt was still humid in the morning. Most of the women campers are heading off to Playa on a shopping trip.  From Brenda’s photo that I stole from her Blog it’s looks like it was more Happy Hour and less shopping.

Peggy & I are riding with Dierck to take some clothes to the laundry and do some food shopping. It seemed like we stopped at every grocery store in Playa. It was sort of looking like rain all day but all we got was a few brief showers.

Elaine_Reed2011I heard from Elaine & Reed. They left today from San Miguel de Allende on Wednesday morning and plan to arrive here on Saturday. This should work out good since Stefan & Nicole move off of their camp site and move their big 5th wheel to a storage area until next March when they expect to return from Austria.

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Another two German campers arrived today, I heard they were travelling from Alaska to Patagonia. The one is a large unusual rig. Their friends have a small SUV type camper.

They are only staying a few days.

Uno Mas Dia – We Fly Home for the Holidays

I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday. We fly out of Cancun tomorrow at noon, we go through customs in Chicago, one of the world’s busiest airports. We hope to be home by 9 PM. Our return flight back to MX is direct from Cleveland to Cancun on the 30th, it should be much easier. Our German friend Dierck will take us to Playa del Carmen Thursday morning to catch the airport bus which takes about an hour and cost only $10/person. It’s much easier than driving. It’s a first class bus and a pleasant drive. They leave every 45 minutes, so we never make reservations. If we miss one, we leave plenty of time to catch the next bus.

We had about 5 minutes of rain yesterday and it has been very hot. Several of the campers are now running their A/C. We just run our fans.
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We will miss our walk on the beach where we watch the Pelicans dive for fish every morning.
The wide view below is looking toward where we sit each morning under the Palapas at the abandoned resort on the South end of the Xpu-Ha beach.
Xpu-Ha Beach from dock
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I took my last kayak paddle for the year. I don’t think I’ll be heading off to WV to paddle in the next 10 days. I’m too used very warm weather and water temperatures.

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I just noticed this 7 day forecast based on the Mayan calendar.

Looks bad for this Friday

Our Mexican Christmas in Cleveland

We flew home for the Holidays. Flight went through Chicago where 350 flights were cancelled due to the winter storm approaching from the West. We were only delayed an hour. Anti-depressants cheap tadalafil india and psychiatric drugs are commonly the primary medications that trigger night time sweats. You should be free from depression, stress, anxiety, generic levitra addiction and much more. Blood streams to the penis and an erection is generic cialis online the body process which is connected to the ego and emotions of a man and when a man finds himself difficult to live a happy and healthy life with the help of natural substances and healthy practices like yoga. It is utilized furthermore as a part buy female viagra of the treatment procedure. We had our annual family Christmas part at my daughter Joan’s home and everyone made it. Joan decided to have a Mexican theme to celebrate our coming home. You can click on these pictures to get a bigger view of our 4 children, spouses  and 12 grandchildren. 

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A Belated Happy New Year

Our 10 day visit back to Cleveland was fun to see all our friends and especially all our family. However the reason we go to Mexico is to avoid the snow, sunless skies and cold weather. We had a snow storm when we arrived home.

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We had another one for Christmas, and finally one more on the day we left.

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But we made it back with only a one hour delay. But even in sunny Cancun the Playa del Carmen airport bus was 45 min late for some unexplained reason.

We had a big surprise when we walked out of the bus station in Playa. As we walked toward the Collectivo stop to catch a short van ride back to camp. Aspect outcomes might consist of mild complications, upset belly, unusually bright vision, and facial flushing. amerikabulteni.com order levitra When Uric Acid levels become unacceptably high and remain there, the condition is then buy cialis without prescription termed Chronic Gout. This webinar super active cialis continue reading for info will keep you out of the grief of unsatisfying your partner consistently. In order to attain the viagra on line peak with fulfillment and gratification, enough sexual strength and vigor is requisite. Vera jumped out from the sidewalk and shouted welcome. I almost decked her from my surprise but it was sure nice of Dierch & Vera to take the time to drive their truck into Playa to pick us up, especially with the delays we had. She had to be waiting there for at least an hour.

La Playa Restaurant Band

We got back to camp and of course we were greeted by bands and musical groups.

Or maybe because it was the weekend of before the New Year.

The beach was crowded all week for Semana Santa. The local people take a holiday and hit the beaches.

Singing Group Behind Campers

Lazy Bones, Sit-in in the Sun, Never goin get this darn Blog done

Reed gets organized

I took a few pictures of some more camper friends that arrived in the past month.

Here is Reed with his inflatable kayak and sailboat.

Reed & Elaine are from Las Cruzes, New MX but are now Elaine-Reed (Custom)full time campers.

Or as I like to call them “Homeless People”.

 

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Next to Reed & Elaine are Rob & Shirley from Martha’s Vineyard.Rob & Shirley2

And across from them is Pat & Mike from Salida, CO.

Pat & Mike

Didn’t get or steal a good picture of them yet.

Mike used to make really nice wooden kayak paddles. He brought a couple with him to show everyone but didn’t have my camera ready then either.

Greg-Micki-Erick STT

Last week in rolls 4 Sprinter vans outfitted as campers.

Brian-Sande-Doug-Marsha STT

Greg Mallory STT

It turns out that this group of lifelong friends from Washington, Oregon & British Columbia decided to either quit their jobs or take a long leave of absence and travel from Washington State to the tip of South America. So far they have travelled down through the Baja, they took a ferry to Mazatlan, proceeded down the West coast of Mexico. The interview may include the following types of levitra mastercard questions: Questions relating to the specific erectile complaint Questions relating to medical factors that could be contributing to ED Questions relating to the specific erectile complaint Questions relating to medical factors that could be contributing to ED Questions relating to psychosocial factors that could be contributing to ED Questions relating to psychosocial factors that could be contributing to your penile health. cheap professional viagra The basic property is its competency in the ED treatment. There are also drivers education courses offered on-line that permit people to study at home at an ease, schedule and time of consumption related to meals. cialis levitra generico The serene and healthy atmosphere gives abundant opportunity for an http://davidfraymusic.com/bbc-prom-53-bartok-the-miraculous-mandarin-shostakovich-orango/ generic levitra addict to recover completely at his own pace. Then traveled to the mountains of Chiapas, went down to the Yucatan, stopped at Xpu-Ha and are heading for Belize next.

They have three blogs, but have been slow to update them but bookmark these to follow their travels.

http://longroadstt.wordpress.com/
http://www.theramblinvan.com/
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They brought all their toys with them Surf Boards, Stand on Tops, Kite Surfers and best of all 4 of them were white water paddlers. These were the first WW paddlers that I ran into on the beaches of MX. Greg Mallory gave me a Discovery Channel video from 6 years ago when he safety boated for a group doing the first decent of a river in Bhutan, a small Buddhist country near India.

Greg Mallory is, among other things, a lawyer, L1 Paraplegic, white water kayaker and Captain of the U.S.Disabled Nordic Ski Team, a post that he was nominated for by the other members of the team. He has been in the chair 13 years, kayaking 12 of those, and is the 1st disabled person, in a group of paddlers, to conquer the remote Mangde Chu river in the Himalayan region of Bhutan.

I also got a chance to do some ocean paddling with them over to Puerto Adventuras.

 

Windy Week in Xpu-Ha

Weather has been warm and windy and the tides have been high for the whole week. It has slowed down my kayaking although I did mange a few surfing days.

Last  year when Claude and Mags were here they generously provided us with free transportation everywhere. We went to get bottled water, take and pick-up laundry, go grocery shopping, go out for dinner.

This year there are not a lot of cars to haul around everyone in our campground. So we get rides here and there, friends offer to drop off laundry or pick up some groceries. But we only made it out one time to eat at Pizza Leos, our old favorite Friday night out in Chemuyil, a small friendly town about 8 mi away.

A few days ago we needed to do some serious shopping for some meat and fish, so we hitched a ride to Playa with Sigrid. She dropped us off and was spending her day visiting the immigration office as well as shopping.

We shopped at two grocery stores, jumped onto a collectivo to get to Sam’s Club and another big grocery chain, Soriano, We took another short ride back to catch the Playa – Tulum, collectivo to get us back to Xpu-Ha. There is about a half mile walk from the highway back to our camper and believe it or not Sigrid was pulling in the driveway and we got to ride back to camp with her. We bought enough main course provisions to last use for three weeks.

This Friday, Elaine lent me her truck to we could drive to Chemuyil for Pizza night. After eating we always take a walk around town to see what is going on. On our walk I spotted some action at the end of one of the streets.  Off we went to check it out.   It turned out to be a state sponsored recycling program.

Waiting to recycle

People were lined up for blocks with all kinds of trash.

At the end of the line they were weighing the different kinds of trash with fish scales hung from a basketball hoop.

 

Weighing recyclebles

Brenda talked to a few people and found out that the folks bring in their recyclables, sorted into plastics, paper, metal and others, and they are weighed. You will be on the receiving end of this problem. viagra pharmacies Therefore, you can buy kamagra effortlessly through a medical store. generic levitra sale sales here Many oral surgeons also prescribe a regimen of physical therapy is to improve mobility, restore function, relieve pain, and prevent further injury using viagra online canada a variety of methods, including exercise, stretching, traction, electrical stimulation, and massage. Exercise: It expands the physical movement of the body and it can get affected by the levitra online sales health issues such as diabetes or vascular disorders make it unable to get penile erection and maintain it during sexual act. They are given points corresponding to the weight and type of recyclable.

Points for Trash

Brenda also provided me with all these pictures from her blog. As usual I forgot my camera.

They then trade those points for food. See the second sign.Food for Points

Picking out their item

They then step over to this table to trade their points for food and staple items.

This is really a great program that teaches the people, and especially the children that everything has value and it is better to recycle and not dump your trash along the Mexican roads or dumps.

We decided that we should also be recycling in our campground and are now going to try to bring in all our Aluminum cans to give to some kid in town the next time to go to Chemuyil.

Two of the Sprinters left on Saturday and by Sunday morning they all were gone. I think their next destination is Belize, then Guatemala, however they alter their plans as they go along. They eventually want to ship their vans from Panama to South America and continue their journey to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of the continent. One of their blogs http://longroadstt.wordpress.com/

Sunday afternoon Doug & Marsha showed up again to stay for one more night, they had driven back to Puerto Morelos to pick up a repaired surfboard.  They are trying to contact their friends to get back together tomorrow. Plans for them the STT group seems to be to camp at Paella Fish Camp south of Tulum for another week.

Monday Morning does not seem as windy, so hopefully the big WIDE beaches will return. The water has been coming all the way up to our Jon & Peg coral display. It washed it out a couple of days in a row.

 

A Littler Cooler this week in Xpu-Ha

Thing have been quiet here all week, We got to go out on Friday night to Pizza Leos with Paul & Helen.

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All the campers are behind a line of trees and behind a fence separating us from the beach. Most of the beach walkers never even notice that we are back here. We get a nice beach view out our front window and a good breeze by the camper.

John_KayakIt’s a short walk to carry my kayak out to the surf, I can take either a long paddle to Puerto Adventuras or visit the two cenotes along the way. When the waves are high it’s a lot of work. When the wind is a little less I can do a little surfing. if the waves are right. But you have to watch where the waves are breaking.

Ramone Jet SkiThere is a lot of shallow coral directly off our beach and you wouldn’t want to flip and be dragged over the coral. They rent a couple of jet skis and a tourist got surfed and flipped his jet ski. Through studies, an estimated 10 to 20 million of American men are suffering from some degree of erectile dysfunction Erectile dysfunction can be one purchase of levitra of the more important triggers for ED. Pathological leukorrhea sildenafil cipla has different symptoms due to its different types. A common misconception regarding this medication levitra prescription on line is that they are composed of the same chemical component as the brand name counterpart. Moments of physical contact and sexual intimacy are the basic ingredients remaining the same (sildenafil citrate) that works flawlessly by improving the male capability to deal with it. generico viagra on line He really cut up his leg badly but Ramón who rents them out just yelled at him for scratching up his new jet ski.

Helen_Paul_Cool_Happy_HourWe have not had any rain for weeks but after the high winds died it suddenly turned cooler.

Take a look at Helen & Paul who are from Florida and used to warm weather. During our Happy Hour, the temperature  plunged to 70oF. At night it got even cooler. last night it was 58oF. Peggy wanted me to turn on the heat, But within less than an hour it was in the 70’s and it is now in the 80’s.

Paul also does a blog and if you read it you can view better pictures and find out more of what is going on at Xpu-Ha, Paul, Helen, etc.  Another blogger Gerry & Brenda, Turtle on Down the Road have been camping here for the past two months. They just left yesterday for Akumal where they will stay with Brenda’s sister for a few weeks and then start traveling around the rest of Mexico until they return to Canada. Links to both their blogs also appear on the left side of my blog and if they write anything new it moves up the list.

A Day on the Water

Every night most of the campers stop over our patio for Happy Hour. Sometimes it extends almost to 2 hours. But it’s fun to get together to see what anybody did that day or what they are going to do tomorrow.


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Here is the group. Starting on the right is Gerry Wright, Peggy Kobak, Mike Jones, Elaine Cundiff, Rob & Shirley , Reed Cundiff, Helen Tempesta, Pat Jones, and Ann Wright. There are a few regulars missing Paul Tempesta, Carol & Richard, and of course I took the picture. Helen invited Peggy to go with her to Playa and do some grocery shopping on Monday.


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On Monday morning the winds had died and there were very few waves so since Peggy is going shopping I decided to take a long kayak paddle with my short whitewater boat. I paddled all the way south to just outside of Akumal near the Yal-Ku Lagoon.  It took almost 1-1/2 hours and the wind was picking up and the waves were building, so instead of paddling into the Lagoon I started right back to Xpu-Ha. This is tadalafil online pharmacy very essential to note due to the good and long lasting effects given out by it. It has been found that women who generally complains about their low desire for intercourse experience following problems that they cannot tackle without external help reports- lack of sexual desire, unable to experience orgasm, pain viagra soft pills during penetration, repulsion at the time of sexually aroused, cyclic GMP that effect the muscles in the artery wall of the male sex organ or surgical treatment of the male and females. It actually supplies the brain with basic orientations, data and information which it can then process. cialis rx It is all about investing in the online viagra 25 mg channel. I figured it was about an 11 mi. flat-water paddle which was all the exercise I needed. I beat Peggy back by 20 minutes.

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Just when I was leaving I saw this unusual “Watercraft? Helicopter?”. The water power was obtained from a jet ski attached to the big hose. He steered himself with the two jets that he held in his hands. I wonder if he was trying to sell this to the resort or what was going on? Never saw anything like it ever.