First Impressions of Mexico

• the light-gauzy, yet clear
• the air-sweetly scented, slightly damp, warm with a near constant breeze
• the sounds- mostly birds, seemingly everywhere, loud, raucous, tropical
• the sky-cerulean blue or huge billows of puff near the shore
• the water-clear and the color of Sapphire gin near the beach becoming progressively darker until nearly a navy off shore

our beach

• the people (except for at the airport) exceedingly friendly especially with children.  The vendors-persistent
• the ground -solid and rocky
• the language-lyrical
• vegetation-lush, thick, exotic

Animals We Saw

• Coati
• Yucatan Woodpecker
• Social Flycatcher
• Iguana
• Gecko
• Orange Yellow Sulphur Butterfly
• Tamandua
• Agouti

Agouti

• Pelicans
• Woodstork
• Osprey
• countless fish
• spider monkey
• lion cub

What We Drank

many, many strawberry diaquiris

many, many pina coladas

marquerita

Dos Equus

milk

Coco Cola  or Pepsi Light

bottled agua

Aspirations Derived from this trip

• travel more (Bonaire, Virgin Islands, Key West, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Sweden , Norway, Iceland, England, Churchill, Labrador, Italy...Africa?)
• learn Spanish