Week five (a)
I'll be moving across to Cozumel next week, so I'd like to post all the odd ball and left over PDC pictures before I go.
Here is where my day usually starts:
image: me in hotel bed with iBook
I'm working on this web page on a Mac iBook and the shirt is hanging up to dry from last night's washing in the shower. In the evening I use a 5 gal plastic pail to do that days laundry while I shower. I hang everything over night in the shower because it drips initially, then the next day and night it air dries in the room.
image: 5 gal plastic pail in shower

When I first flew in to Cozumel airport I took a couple pictures from my window of Cozumel and the Mayan Riviera.
image: Cancun hotel district and beach from aloft

image: Yucatan coast, beach-jungle

There is an aerial sign towed along the beach most of the day advertising the coming nights specials at the bars and discos. It's pulled by this twin engine home built airplane.
image: high wing plane w/ 2 pusher engines

Next, for the viewing pleasure of my collecting and clutter friends (you know who you are), this is a little car repair shop I pass each evening on my way to a meeting.
image: small local car shop
That body is actually pretty good.  =)

This is a view of the Cosumel ferry terminal, from the top of the roof down. There are two boats departing. This type of roof is called a 'Pallapa' and the thatching is marsh reeds bound to the poles with stout waxed nylon cord. The poles are hard wood.  The wood is so hard that they often use 'concrete' nails and pre-drill the holes. There are two ferry companies to keep the price competitive (90 pesos each way [~$8 usd]).  Some of the boats are jet drive diesel aluminum catamarans, like the one on the right.
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This van is parked across the street form the Spanish language AA clubhouse. Yes, the windows are covered because a recovering drunk will sleep in there from time to time as they get their lives together. It doesn't appear to have moved since I saw it last year. I think the cops leave it alone as a public service.
image: White Chev van

On the first day of the first week of Navy boot camp, our company commander told us: "The only thing worse than being a thief is tempting a thief; lock your locker". I like taking pictures and editing them into eMails and this web page so I value my laptop well beyond it's replacement cost. To not tempt theft I carry the iBook with me everywhere in a backpack, and I often carry the backpack on this industrial grade luggage cart. I take some ribbing about that cart, but I've still got the computer (so far). Here I am showing off the cart on 'Blue Parrot Hotel' beach.
(There's no gratuitous nudity in the background is there?)
image: cart and I on beach
 

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