While Jamie has been rather sick this last week, and decided to self medicate (with CIPRO!!!) and really, to my mind, is no better, and has been staying inside the A/C trailer all day long and I haven’t wanted to do any of the sightseeing I’d planned cause I don’t want to leave him out of it, and damn, but will he EVER see a doctor (cause they’re SO inexpensive down here) and stop self-medicating with outrageously harsh antibiotics so he can actually TREAT whatever is wrong with him…Golly, I’m at the end of my rope on this. We’re not much of a medicating family and I’m really wondering at his self-diagnosis of bacterial bugs in his gut plus the fact that he didn’t even talk to the person at the
pharmacy about what dosage to get and how long to take the CIPRO. I guess I just have to trust that he knows what he’s doing.
At any rate, the kids are getting a really good rest from traveling, but they really haven’t been outside the park. There is no city here; just the trailer park; the city is about 15 minutes by car north. They’ve been having an absolutely lovely time with some girls they’ve met down here and Pike insisted on inviting them to his birthday.
For weeks he’s been asking when his birthday will arrive and yesterday was the day! We headed to town to a couple stores to pick out his cake (our normal tradition is for him to help make it) and by the afternoon he couldn’t wait any longer to celebrate. Jamie and I were taking out time coming back from the sea/pool and he decided to clean the trailer and do the dishes so all would be in readiness for the celebration.
Papa and Tata will be happy to note that he got his cake. They were so worried we wouldn’t provide him with a cake, that they gave him a box cake and powdered sugar
just in case. 
I spent hours walking around in the heat and humidity looking to replace a beanie bear (Poopsie) that was taken from our camp in Ixtapan del Oro and finally, for the exorbitant sum of 120 pesos, found a bear. It didn’t cut the mustard for Pike so today Jamie found seven bears on EBay and when we get to the states, he’ll get his bear. Ellen is LOVING the bear he didn’t appreciate.
Today it rained. It has been thundering and lightening for the past two days and today we got a really good rainstorm. Puddles around and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. Amazing.
Anyway, not much to say; we don’t do anything but hang around the sea/pool/trailer and I read constantly, hoping Jamie will be getting better. He swears today that he is, in fact, getting better, and tomorrow I hope we can go to Cobá (pretty close-by ruins in the style of Tikal, Guatemala) or an island preserve off the coast of Cancun (no, not Isla Mujeres or Cozumel). Hard to believe life could be so boring here on the Mayan coast.
Oh, you’ll love Coba. We were about ten years ago, and there was still a lot of destruction from Hurricane Gilbert visible. As I’m an archaeologist, I enjoyed that Coba was much less “reconstructed” than other sites around the Yucatan.
Hope you’re all on the mend soon.
(If you want dosages for meds, try the Merck Manual online.)
Wow, I just spent a bit of time at your site. What an adventure for you all! I’ll keep you in mind when we visit Coba (hopefully tomorrow as rain is forecast and the temperature seemed to drop drastically today when it rained). Jamie reports that he is doing much better, but we’ll see. Still not drinking coffee, and that is my personal bellweather. If I’m not up for coffee, then I’m not 100%.
Now, I have much more of your site to read!
We are SOOOO glad to hear from you! We are especially happy to learn that Pike had his great birthday cake! Looks like he had a GREAT party! Did he get our card? It was inside the bag that had the cake mix and powdered sugar in it.
We hope Jamie is feeling better – can’t beieve he won’t see a doctor!
Hugs to each one of you!
Love,
PaPa and TaTa
Belated happy birthday Pike! From the pictures, it looks like you had a good time.
By the way Kitty and Jamie, the last time I was on Cipro, I took it twice a day for ten days. But most important of all was that I also ate a lot of yogurt with it (per doctor’s orders). So I recommend that you either eat yogurt or get some live acidophilus into your system! And next time, see a doctor!
Love,
Aunt Kathy
I now have to admit that I’ve spent much of the time I should be researching the proper wiring of inverter/chargers reading your archives
. However, you did help me make one important decision – we were seriously looking at a full-sized van as a tow vehicle, but was worried about getting stuck in off-road/muddy/sandy conditions. Seeing some of the problems you’ve had, I’m now thoroughly convinced that 4WD is in our future.
I’m so sad that you’ll be long gone from Mexico by the time we reach there around New Year’s. Any plans on returning next winter? Our plans are to wander around the East Coast, from here in Maine to the Florida Keys until mid December, then race along the Gulf Coast to the Mexican border (trying to limit the kids’ exposure to too much red-stateatopia – living in the Northeast, they haven’t built up much of an immunity ;-D.) We’ll be in Mexico until March, then head up into AZ, over to LA and up the coast to Monterey Bay (spouse grew up in PG), over to Yosemite, then continue up to the PNW in late spring, over to the Rockies in early summer, and then who knows from there (depends mostly if and where I get into law school.)
Maybe our paths will cross along the way.