Having lived 28 years in South Carolina, first on the Isle of Palms and then in Mount Pleasant - just over the connector about 5 miles from the sea - we learned a thing or two about hurricanes.
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Not in the “green” yet but loving life. We can’t think of any place we would rather be during these times than here in the Riviera Maya. We do wish we were able to travel and see family and friends but, like most of the world right now, that just isn’t prudent.
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I have been finding it very challenging to contrive subjects about which to write. What we started as a fun retirement project to document our travels to anyone who might have a shared interest, has morphed into something more like a real-time autobiography - more stream of consciousness and less travel update.
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It is not all safe and back to normal here! For those considering hopping on the next flight to Cancun, be careful, and if and when you come please realize the locals here have worked very hard to do all they can to keep the numbers down.
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When it comes to the pandemic response, our governments and our societies have taken very similar approaches. And, I should point out, neither has worked very well.
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It’s hot down here in Mexico, but there’s a nice breeze off the canal and until the other day it was hot and dry. But now the humidity is coming up and we just had our first two rain storms since the end of January.
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I’ve been trying to write lately, after all, that was the goal when we decided to retire, make Mexico our home base and travel. Writing was going to be our outlet and at the very least our hobby.
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So what’s our typical day like at our small condo complex in Puerto Aventuras? In some ways it’s not so different than back in Charleston. I get up early and take the dog for a short walk down the street and back.
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I have witnessed my share of frightening, disturbing and even crisis situations over my lifetime. Never a pandemic but there are similarities. It is in the worst of times that people show their true colors. No time is more evident than right now.
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It was only two weeks ago that the concept of COVID-19 hitting us seemed a distant concern in a faraway place. We knew it was hitting the rest of the world but our little corner of the was still safe.
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When Lydia and I made the decision in March of 2019 to move to Puerto Aventuras, we were reaching for a limb that seemed to offer clear climbing to sunlight… when we reached this little town of Puerto Aventuras on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, we saw a route forward.
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We have already had visitors and loved showing them where we live and introducing them to our new life. We have started to make some wonderful new friends and to get know our neighbors.
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It is hard to even say how long we have been here, time has become a different thing now that we are retired and settling in. According to the calendar it has been 4 weeks today. A lot has happened in a month.
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Pinch me, are we really here? It seemed, at times, like this was never really going to happen. Our house in S.C. has not sold yet but we packed up our bags and rented a place in Puerto Aventuras for 6 months.
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