Crystal ball: Will American Airlines get me to Cozumel?

[H2ODoc]

Come on people. I know some of you crossed your fingers and toes, but somebody's holding out on me. I'm using SB as my therapy documenting my trip. So sit back and grab a Pacifico...

Finished packing last night at midnight. Weighed my bag three times. Packed for combo business and dive trip, so I put the wingtips right next to the flipflops and my sport coat balled up inside my BCD.

Got up at 4:00 am to catch the shuttle to DIA. Sandals and t-shirt were a little chilly in the frost this morning.

Checked in with American Airlines ("Just a Few MD-80s Short of a Really Good Airline") and my bag weighed in at a svelte 48 lbs. Noice.

Thanks to all you RMO believers... our plane left the gate on time! A quick pit stop to de-ice (that strikes me as funny - deicing before we head off to Cancun via Dallas), we got in the air and made good time to Dallas.

Good enough time to hear the announcement in the airport that "flight blah blah blah to Cancun is delayed from 12:45 to 2:45 - we are waiting on the aircraft".

Well heck - I just got off a perfectly good aircraft - can't we take that thing to MX????

I'll take the recent advice posted on the SB Coz forum that basically says "once you get on a plane on your way to dive, you should be on island time and not worry about delays out of your control"

So, taking that advice, I'm ordering up a bucket of mini Corona's.

Later.

:shelli:

 

[DeltaWardog]

Good to know the trip wasn't cancelled altogether. I was rooting for you!

 

[UnderwaterBumbleBee]

Glad you made it H20Doc - Hope you have a great trip....I'm green with envy!

 

[H2ODoc]

Hola mi amigos y amigas!

OK, ok, ok. Got here a-OK after a little delay in Dallas. Shuttle from CUN aeropuerta to Moon Palace worked muy bueno and got situated in my hotel room in time for cocktails Sun night. No problemo.

Meetings Mon until 1 pm, then a little siesta poolside. Couple of All-inclusive cervezas followed by a little windsurfing and I'm fully entrenched in vacation mode.

Moon Palace is very nice, but ab-so-lutely HUGE. Not my type of vacation, but work demands it, so I suffer for my soup.

Dinner tonight was a mix of grilled salmon, mahi mahi, and grouper. Those poor grouper. My favorite underwater fish. So big and fish-like. Why did they have to make them so tasty? A few glasses of wine. A shot of Don Julio, and I'm buzzing my way back to my marble-floored hotel room. Missing my wife who'll meet me in Coz in a day and a half.

Windsurfing was cool. Haven't done that in 10 years or so. Gotta do it again tomorrow. If the winds are right, I'm making a break for Coz a day premature. They can send my luggage via taxi.

So... RMOers. Please oh, please tell me you are digging out after a snowstorm or something. I know, I know. 18" fresh powder in the mountains. That's cool and all. Tree skiing at WP or Vail ranks up there, but in mid April, I'm ready for this warm moist breeze in Mehico. Well.... I gotta go. Sitting here on my balcony at 11 pm typing on the ole laptop thinking I have a mtg at 7:30 tomorrow. Better get some sleep so I can function for work tomorrow. Luckily, my boss partook in the Don Julio shots. Don Julio is muy malo.

Buenos Nachos.

 

[DeltaWardog]

70 today. mid 70's tomorrow. It's going to snow on Wednesday. B*stard.

 

[DandyDon]

Glad you made it easier than I'd feared. I'm such a chicken little sometimes...

70 today. mid 70's tomorrow. It's going to snow on Wednesday. B*stard.

Looks nice for Coz...

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Hmmmm Santa Rosa NM has wind advisories Tuesday... :11:

 

[UnderwaterBumbleBee]

Your wish must have been granted Doc. I thought this whole week was going to be nice but no, it's going to snow tomorrow! Well I hope you have no wind tomorrow! J/K