Feb 16 Tulum.Hostel Roots Quintana. (Dorm)
Feb 16
Tulum.Hostel Roots Quintana. (Dorm)
Today after pancakes and scrambled egg DIY breakfast I went back to Ziggy Beach and got my key, then rode north to the public beach and walked along it. Surf too rough to swim in my estimation. In the afternoon I head south to two cenotes trying to use the snorkel equipment from Roots Quintana. The cenotes are beautiful and I can snorkel for a while, but end up with asphixiation anxiety before long.
I get back on my bike and ride back to the hostel and try to drink a beer with the workers there. One is a blue-collar gringo older than me from Colorado who lives full time in Mexico, notwithstanding he doesn't really speak the language. Tells me he's broken so many bones he can't take the cold. Even 50F degrees is too cold. Before long he and a Mexican worker leave, leaving me to finish my 25 peso (cheap) beer and go read.
[email to Carol, pictures of new age hotels on Tulum shore] Some of these places are $300 a night
[Email from Carol] 300 bux a night ......do you get free Yoga with that!??? That is crazy........got sunny now ....may get up to 24 later today........the light is different now....spring=is coming/
[email to Carol] What I don't like about Mexico.
The smell of what I can only call rotten eggs, from sewage, which you smell sometimes even in upscale areas like the zona hoteleria in Tulum.
Litter. Plastic bottles, plastic and paper wrappings, all over hell.
The monotomous music. Don't know if it's rancheros or what.
The first two can be described as Third World problems. It costs money to take care of sewage. The idea that litter is ugly is a First World concept.
The music complaint could probably be made of the US, though about different music.
I'm not suggesting these complaints are interesting, inciteful or anything, just things that keep me from totally relaxing and want in to stay longer.
What do I like about Mexico? The sea, the cenotes, climbing the pyramids and seeing for miles above the tree canopy, yacking about other countries with Europeans and Canadians.
[Email from Carol] I know what you mean about the smell......I remember one spot in Guat that smelled Big Time from open seweage........like 5,000 turds all together.
And, there is nothing worse than the loud Mexican music late at night when you are trying to sleep.......But I love the flowers, the flowering trees, the clay pots and clay houses and the friendliness of
most of the people ....and the great food.........but if you are sick It all goes to hell.........hope you stay upbeat.....have some nice meals, maybe hear some music performed and we will see you on the flip side. I hope.
Love, Carol
Tulum.Hostel Roots Quintana. (Dorm)
Today after pancakes and scrambled egg DIY breakfast I went back to Ziggy Beach and got my key, then rode north to the public beach and walked along it. Surf too rough to swim in my estimation. In the afternoon I head south to two cenotes trying to use the snorkel equipment from Roots Quintana. The cenotes are beautiful and I can snorkel for a while, but end up with asphixiation anxiety before long.
I get back on my bike and ride back to the hostel and try to drink a beer with the workers there. One is a blue-collar gringo older than me from Colorado who lives full time in Mexico, notwithstanding he doesn't really speak the language. Tells me he's broken so many bones he can't take the cold. Even 50F degrees is too cold. Before long he and a Mexican worker leave, leaving me to finish my 25 peso (cheap) beer and go read.
[email to Carol, pictures of new age hotels on Tulum shore] Some of these places are $300 a night
[Email from Carol] 300 bux a night ......do you get free Yoga with that!??? That is crazy........got sunny now ....may get up to 24 later today........the light is different now....spring=is coming/
[email to Carol] What I don't like about Mexico.
The smell of what I can only call rotten eggs, from sewage, which you smell sometimes even in upscale areas like the zona hoteleria in Tulum.
Litter. Plastic bottles, plastic and paper wrappings, all over hell.
The monotomous music. Don't know if it's rancheros or what.
The first two can be described as Third World problems. It costs money to take care of sewage. The idea that litter is ugly is a First World concept.
The music complaint could probably be made of the US, though about different music.
I'm not suggesting these complaints are interesting, inciteful or anything, just things that keep me from totally relaxing and want in to stay longer.
What do I like about Mexico? The sea, the cenotes, climbing the pyramids and seeing for miles above the tree canopy, yacking about other countries with Europeans and Canadians.
[Email from Carol] I know what you mean about the smell......I remember one spot in Guat that smelled Big Time from open seweage........like 5,000 turds all together.
And, there is nothing worse than the loud Mexican music late at night when you are trying to sleep.......But I love the flowers, the flowering trees, the clay pots and clay houses and the friendliness of
most of the people ....and the great food.........but if you are sick It all goes to hell.........hope you stay upbeat.....have some nice meals, maybe hear some music performed and we will see you on the flip side. I hope.
Love, Carol
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| Mural in Tulum (common in cities in Mexico) |
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| From atop Hostel |
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