Launch and relaunch Cozumel 2014

Hi all,

Well this trip certainly started ominously.  Kindof. 
The most notable thing that happened was that I didn't get to leave home when planned.  Toronto had another weather hissy fit.  Remember in 1999 when Toronto called in the army because it snowed?  But the pizza guy still managed to deliver?



My bicycle all folded, padded, and almost ready to go.

This time, Toronto closed the airport.  It was too cold for them to work.  Imagine how often the Winnipeg airport would close down if they were that wimpy!  So instead of leaving on I was able to get (more) ready for the trip and catch up on sleep before I left.  I tried a little too hard to do too much just before leaving.  Also, I got to fly with Christelle, a friend who will spend a week with me here I Cozumel.

The air travel went very well.  Freezing rain threatened to keep us from taking off in Ottawa, but the Ottawa airport crew prevailed and off we went!



Christelle planning her/our week, while we wait outside our villa.

Our arrival at the Cozumel airport was fine too.  It was out arrival at my apartment, in Casa Deja Blue, that was another adventure.  Our host, Dennis, wasn't there.  I rang the doorbell at the Casa and an adjacent house, where he apparently lives, without success.  Some nice neighbours called and texted him without success.  I even yelled "hola/hello" into the empty courtyard with no success.  So we waited on the sidewalk for about 1.5 hours.  Then there was Dennis.  All military man like.  Scolding us for not emailing to advise him of our arrival.  What??? We were pretty put off by his attitude for sure.  But we were sweet as pie.  Asked about the rules, said thank you very much, blah blah blah.



Assembling my bike on the street, outside the villa while we wait for our host.

There was one positive part to waiting on the sidewalk for Dennis.  I had time to unpack and reassemble the folding bicycle I brought from Canada.  And time to notice that the fender got pretty bent in transit.  And Dennis was nice enough to fix it.  Normally, I would have felt bad about having our host spend about 1 hour fixing my bicycle.  But nope!  I accepted his help as an unspoken apology for his crappy attitude.