Hell’s Half Acre

Well, it can’t be as we have both suffered through it already, but Jamie is sick again and has yet to sample the brilliantly white beaches and turquoise seas that beckon weary travellers to PaaMul. It has changed SO MUCH. We’re also here at the end of high season so there are a LOT of rigs here (and I’m really regretting all the raving I did about it on the rv.net forums two years ago) but there are also a LOT of new palapas built. I’m really glad we didn’t build; everyone is just one on top of another. Tulum was CHOCK FULL of gringos and yesterday two bussloads came into PaaMul to snorkel and honestly, all we could do was stare at them gaped mouthed. I mean, we’re tourists and gringos too, but each one of us would stare at the hordes and exclaim, “look at all the GRINGOS!” like they were so foreign to us. Weird, we are.

Jamie has been in bed all day yesterday (and went to bed soon after we arrived; he’d been fine all day) and today if he is still sick we’ll go to the laboratory. I don’t think it is Dengue; he has none of the intense “broken bone” feeling of pain in his limbs but does have a horrific headache. We’ve all had a headachey thing but his seems worse. He also has a spikey temperature that makes me wonder about Malaria. We’re never content with simply colds and flu (we don’t get them in Mexico) but much prefer typhoid and malaria.

The kids played most of the day, snorkeling or at the pool with Len and Shelley’s kids. They started travelling in the fall and are travelling in a POP UP! With FIVE kids! Oh, My Goodness! I simply can’t imagine. At times I hate our lengthy trailer and at times (rain) I’m really glad we have it, but I can’t imagine 3 years in a pop up. I’d go freaking insane. They got a plastic tarp like external room thingie and a small fridge (large to an RV’er but small to a stick house person) that they keep outside. They pull everything with a minivan! Talk about making it simple. We also met up with another family that we’d encountered in Monte Gordo (on the Emerald Coast) and their little puppy sure has grown! The girls are still just as in love as before. It is simply amazing how many travelling families we’ve met this year. They have a website and I’ll have to find out what it is and post it here.

Finally, the girls and I headed down to the beach for sunset (to our backs; no water sunsets here) and to escape the mozzies and ran into someone else who, just from hearing Ellen’s name asked me if I was “Mamahops”. The world just gets smaller and smaller. I’ll edit in all the websites of these people when I figure them out.
Hope you enjoyed your Daylight Savings Time; here in Mexico, they’ve put it off for a month or so. There is always mañana…. Pictures to come when everyone awakes.