July 27:  It has been a few days since we posted, but we are well after a few delightful days in Merida, Yucutan with our wonderful host Carol.  We managed to accomplish a couple of repairs to her Architectural Digest home -- brave girl, to pick up her life and move to Mexico.  

First, there were the cenotes, freshwater sinkholes all over the Yucutan which supplied Mayan civilization with precious water.  Many are open for swimming and diving, and we visited four cenotes, and a wonderful beach at Sisal.

Carol asked bill to go back to the square so she could capture these kindly men doing coke.

Ah, the beach.  Mexico has miles of unexplored beaches, and this one at Sisal was classic white sand and clear warm water.

We are on our way back now to border at McAllen, Texas, passing through Cardel, Tuxpam and Ciudad Victoria.  I expect to be back in DC by July 4, but lots of driving ahead.  Maybe it is time to go; we finally had to pay a bribe (which Bill negotiated down from 3800 pesos to 620) for the made-up crime of smoking in our personal vehicle -- other police confirmed that no such law has ever existed.  We will try to post again before departing.