Next time

You're taking a cab from Holbox to the airport (the right decision), may I strongly recommend that you ask your driver to stop at one of the stands that line certain portions of the road to eat beforw you descend into Cancun. You could offer to buy him lunch. There are lots of places with homemade tortillas, but if you consider tortas to be easier to deal wtih, transportation wise, I'm sure you can find those too.

The food at the Cancun airport is abysmal. Like, if not the worst, among the worst I have yet to experience. There's Dominos and Bubba Gump and TGI Friday's and the like. There is one "Mexican" place that I avoided (no way in hell was I going to override three amazing cochinita pibil tacos with some god-awful food court "Mexican.")

Instead, I went with the Wolfgang Puck Margherita pizza. I consider that to have been the lesser of any number of evils.

I will say this

"Downtown" Holbox is a hotbed of nighttime activity.

The day

Off map

There is a very useful tourist map of Holbox that shows you where you can find a lot of things that you might need. It doesn't, however, show you everything.

It doesn't show you where the baseball team practices (or where they will play a game that you will miss on Sunday). It doesn't show you where the street vendors stake out their spots. And it doesn't show you Doña Cruz's Loncheria.

I found it yesterday and had two delicious panuchos for breakfast. Then I indulged myself with some so bad it's good chilaquiles this morning. Tomorrow, I am relocating to a B&B where I imagine I will be fed breakfast, so I will be lunching there, rather than breaking my fast.

Solid.

Breakfast 8 to 12, lunch 12 to 3 (or thereabouts).

Once I had done

All of the heavy lifting required to find out that yes, indeed, there is a brand new directish bus between Chiquila and Tulum, which involved multiple calls to mutiple Mayab bus lines phine numbers, I realized I just wanted to stay put until Sunday.

Because really.

See you some other time, Tulum.

There are no paved roads

On Holbox.

This is the main road from where I'm staying into town.

La frente frío

Arrived this afternoon, but I got no complaints. Morning on the beach, afternoon in a book, then a long walk home, arms outstretched in the strong warm winds, ready for takeoff.