Trip Report Sep 13-20.

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Gang,

I know this has been noted several times here, but I have to say it again:

-Do NOT rent scooters in Cozumel.

At the airport on Wednesday there was some guy sitting there in the chairs all banged up. Arm in a sling, road rash everywhere. I walked right over and said, "Scooter accident, eh?" He said "How did you know?" The worst part of this is he'd been on the island less than 24 hours and was flying home for surgery on his arm. Ugh.

I don't think I've ever flown out of of the airport in Coz when I DIDN'T see someone all beat up from a scooter accident.

-Charles

Scooter accidents are the primary reason for gringos in the emergency room on Cozumel; mix an inexperienced scooter pilot, a few cervesas, and a little sand on the pavement, and that's what you get. The son of a friend of ours was killed on a scooter on Cozumel. My dentist was killed on a scooter on the Yucatan.