Zihuatanejo

2020-02-15 : Beach Day - Playa La Madera
We started off the day uncertain as to what it would hold. We both felt a little "off" in the morning, and weren't sure if we should stick close to home base instead of going out. We had breakfast, and after a while decided that we felt fine and we went out for our "beach day" at Playa La Madera.

Beach day was great. We went back to home base in the afternoon for a siesta before going out to a fundraiser in the evening (a "Dance in the Street" event benefiting the Bet Shalom senior's home). Around 5PM I started feeling bad again, and instead of going to the fundraiser, I spent the evening feeling awful, and Brent spent the evening tending to me and listening to me whine about how awful I felt. I'm not sure which one of us had it worse.


2020-02-16 : Sick Day
Sticking close to home base today to try and recover from whatever has its tentacles into my digestive system. Sigh. Very disappointing. But at least we didn't have big plans for today.
Brent took me out for a little walk around the block today. I'm feeling not bad for now, so it's nice to get out for a little while.


2020-02-17 : Fly Home
Musing for future tropical vacations: It seems to take Brent and me about a week to acclimatize to the heat. We hit some pretty hard heat walls on our first afternoons here, and then got in the habit of taking an afternoon siesta for a few days. After about a week, we've been fine. It's still hot, but it's not kicking our asses quite as bad.
We had both forgotten what departures at Zihuatanejo were like, and I was hoping they wouldn't be wretched, like at Barbados. Arrivals when we got here were pretty chaotic, but I remembered looking at the people waiting in departures, and it looked spacious, and maybe even air conditioned.

We ran into our new friend, Carren, over lunch before going to the airport, and she said that departures were nice, and air-conditioned. She was right. When we got there, everything went very smoothly, and departures were, indeed, spacious, and definitely air conditioned. Nothing Barbados-ey about it!


2020-02-18 : Day off to Sleep/Recover


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