impressions from cancun 2

4. walmart is in cancun too! and at the back of the low peso stuff i spy the sticker that says, made in china. in mexico!

5. every other stall is selling mexican blankets, which on closer inspection turn out to be kilim type rugs. we find tight weave and vibrant colors that set our hearts a-tripping and acquire three. it means everything else will get squashed, but hey these are wool kilims.

6. my cultural experience does not get to expand beyond tintin and the temple of the sun god, due to a total lack of higher objectives than food and vegetating.

when i finally lift my head from the food pool shopping and predators and accidentally look out to sea, i am captivated. there is a wildness to the crashing waves under a leaden sky that suggests legends and possibilities, and there is a pristine beauty to the famed cancun beach that bewitches even a beachophobe like me. (at least until the excavators turn up to lay the pipes.)