Cancun – Setting Your Senses on Fire

  Once you’ve soaked up enough of the Cancun sun that your burned skin begins to bubble, it’s probably time to go home. Fried skin aside, there was little about this trip we didn’t enjoy. (And Soo even enjoyed my sunburn. Ever sympathetic, this was merely a new toy, something irresistible to play with, like an unused roll of bubble wrap.) That I am lousy at sunbathing is no surprise; I’m not good at very much. Drinking, however, is a strong suit. When a friend repeatedly moans “What did you do to my husband?!” you know you’ve accomplished something meaningful. Such was the case our first night on the Mayan ... [Read More]

Swimming with whale sharks

  When I told Brian and Jim that we planned to swim with sharks while in Cancun the blood drained from their faces as they stammered and stuttered unkind things about my sanity, huffily but firmly refusing to get anywhere near water teeming with sharks. I might have failed to note the sharks in question were whale sharks, docile beasts who feed only on plankton, microscopic plants and fish eggs. Might have forgotten to mention that part. My bad. Turns out that an area of ocean about 20 miles off the Cancun coast is known for occasionally having the largest congregation of whale sharks ever witnessed on earth. Schools ... [Read More]