Adiós Paradise

Well we did it. We finally managed to pull ourselves away from Isla Mujeres. After breakfast, we packed up and headed down to the pier where we caught a ferry back to Cancún straight away. We took a taxi to the bus station and caught a bus south to Tulum straight away. The bus ride was luxury for us, a nice new bus with air conditioning that cranked. It was only about 2.5 hours, but we wanted to stay longer. The bus driver dropped us off at what he said was Tulum, but really it was the Tulum ruins (tomorrow's destination) and about 4 km north of the town. Crap. We thought maybe we'd just go see the ruins now since we were already here, but by the time we ate some lunch, the sky looked pretty black and we didn't want to be walking around in the downpour.

So we flagged down a colectívo minivan and got ourselves a hotel room for the night. It was at a place called Rancho Tranquilo, okay, but way overpriced for the basic, rugged accommodations. There was a mosquito net over the bed, but it had so many holes in it that we had to take it down and rig up our own. With nothing else to do, we walked around the one street that is the Tulum Puebla, nothing exciting. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with American Airlines trying to change some flights (why is everything so hard for them???), we had a beer and then went back to the hostel to read and relax. We shared some rotisserie chicken along with beans and rice for dinner, and even had room for some homemade icecream afterwards. Back at the hostel, we played Yahtzee and cards and went to bed when the mossies became too much.