...I get up, eat the world's slowest breakfast with some nice Mexican specials (chilaquiles - yum!!!) and leave the town
...I visit the ruins of Chichen Itza - Mexico's most famous attraction ever since its inclusion in the New Seven Wonders list. The weirdest thing about it is not the number of visitors, surprisingly modest, but the fact that you have to buy two tickets per person - one state and one federal - at two separate ticket windows and wait in line twice! Everyone wants a piece of the action here!
...I buy an umbrella from an inconspicuously looking local man who shouts in my ear suddenty as he passes me: "Sombreros, hats, kapelusze!" - this helps me survive the heat
...I notice Starbucks in Mexico sell little coffee mug shaped USB drives - I almost buy one, it's for charity, but then I forget
...I go back to Playa del Carmen, have my last Starbucks coffee, take the car back, happily discover that tequila prices in the so called "duty free" shop at the airport are roughly double of what I paid at the local supermarket and board the plane. Due to the presence of tequila in my mauin bag, I have to check it in
...and after a quiet flight I pick it up in New York - it's bruised, it's battered, one strap is missing and one tequila is broken. All my clothes reek of liquor. But hey, the three other ones and the mezcal are untouched. Always look on the bright side of life....