Going by plane into Mexico is amazingly painless, at least when you are flying into Cancun anyway. The price of your FM3 or immigration paper is included in your plane ticket. You just fill out this one page form along with one for your family group. The staff gives you plenty of time on the plane andthen you’ll be guided to Immigration officers once you land. Choose 1 day to 180 days.
This is a look out the window of the plane as the sunsets.
These people actually seem like they don’t mind letting you
into their country, as long as you’ve done your part. Just have your proper ID, be nice and no
problems. These men and women are all
in their sharp uniforms, very much businesslike but pleasant to deal with. They even wish you a good time. Well, I think I may.
Back to the luggage issue.
In my last post you saw the amount we had. Is there a van out there big enough and how
many people is it going to take to haul this stuff along?
Our very helpful luggage carousel guy assists us to get a
cab. Is it lost on him how much we
have? Noper, as he gets us what we need,
but not what we expect.
The gentleman coming with the cart is not what I would
describe in anyway as being athletic looking.
Poor guy is going to break his back hauling our stuff and where is his
helper?
Well if there were luggage carrying Olympics this guy would
be getting all the metals. Wished we’d
taken a photo but our mouths are hanging open too far to find our cameras. He was amazing at jockeying our luggage! Off we head to the taxi, hauling only our carryon’s
and trying not to step on our bottom lip as our able steward guides us.
Then we are walking towards what? A van? SUV? Station wagon? Nope it’s a Camry. Oh man these guys don’t get it! No way is that going to fit!
Again our mouths are gapping. The taxi driver starts loading our luggage
into his trunk. This is like watching him
work with large, heavy puzzle pieces. Like Jenga in his trunk. There is no squishing, cramming or jamming,
just fitting in. He does this in a
flash. Guess he’s probably done this a time or
two. Man, its all in there with only one
piece in the front seat and our laptops in the back seat with us. Whew what a
humongous relief!
Now off to the lovely Bonampak Hotel in sunny downtown Cancun . http://hotelbonampak.com/index_en.html What a great night's sleep we had.
I think we should ask for a van to take us to the bus line for Campeche just in case we don't find as talented a trunk puzzle assembler as last night. Alas our cab arrives, and it is even smaller than the one last night. This is a Nissan Tsuru, a very popular vehicle for taxis. He too had excellent packing skills. We just ended up with our suit bag between us. Pretty good.
Now off to our comfy ADO bus for the 6 hour trip to Campeche. No chickens on this bus or any other we have seen. So what did he say...?
I think we should ask for a van to take us to the bus line for Campeche just in case we don't find as talented a trunk puzzle assembler as last night. Alas our cab arrives, and it is even smaller than the one last night. This is a Nissan Tsuru, a very popular vehicle for taxis. He too had excellent packing skills. We just ended up with our suit bag between us. Pretty good.
Now off to our comfy ADO bus for the 6 hour trip to Campeche. No chickens on this bus or any other we have seen. So what did he say...?
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