Viva Luna de Miel!

Well I could have stood for that to be a lot longer. If it weren't for a certain deranged pug waiting for us at home, I think Carrienation and I might have extended our stay until our bank account ran dry. I realize I'm not going to find a lot of sympathy for this sentiment, but I'm not sure nine days in paradise was quite enough.

Our destination was a beach resort in Tulum, Mexico, a resort area about two hours drive away from Cancun that caters to smug bohemian types. Most of the resorts along the beach make their own electricity with wind turbines and encourage conservation in various ways. The result is a beautifully preserved, thinly populated stretch of beach with no jet skis, no jorts and very few drunken college students.

Our main activities consisted of:

1) Sitting on said beach, and

2) Bailing on the many sight-seeing opportunities people warmly suggested for us.

We really meant to get to Chichen Itza -- the most famous Mayan ruin -- and to the Sia Kian Biosphere just down the road, and to the cenotes (fresh water underground caves) that the area is famous for. But we kept waiting for a bad weather day to do those things, and it just never came. Sad, really. We did get to the Mayan ruins at Tulum (because we could get there by bicycle and they had iguanas) so that's something.

Proof we left the beach

These are the ruins at Tulum. See if you can find the Iguanas in the picture.

Where I be at

I think I averaged about six hours a day on these chairs. I'm really good at it.

Thank god for shutter speed

I held this for like an hour.

My lovely bride

CarrieNation is a little more graceful.

Comments

[FS]

I've been to one of those cenotes-it is pretty awesome.

[Dabysan]

We heard they were nice. We felt bad about not going for at least 45 seconds or so. 

[M-----l]

I hope that the posting of shirtless pictures begins and ends right here.  That's more flesh than I need to see on any of my Vox neighbors.

Nice balance, by the way.  I tried to do a handstand pushup a couple weeks ago and fell on my head.

[M-----l]

I must confess.  I zoomed in on your shirtless pic because I was very curious as to your reading material.  Starship Troopers?!

[Dabysan]

I read three books at the beach (four if you count the Art of War, which I skimmed until I got bored).

- Starship Troopers: I know the title is goofy, but Heinlein plays with some really interesting ideas in the book which is almost nothing like the awesome B movie of the same name.

- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Because that's what everybody's reading...because it's awesome

- The Subtle Knife: Book two of the Golden Compass.

[Dabysan]

As for the whole shirtless thing, I should have maybe marked that that "may be offensive" but since you zoomed in on my gut, I'm assuming it didn't bother you that much.

[M-----l]

I've thought about reading Starship Troopers because the movie was so embarrassingly awesome, but the other Heinlein I read totally sucked so I gave up on the idea.

[Dabysan]

I'm not going to try to convince you, but it was a hell of a beach read.