Our second destination was to the island of Cozumel, Mexico, where we again chose to forsake the "planned adventure" of a shore excursion and to simply go where we had yet to visit, the actual downtown area.
Our last time in Cozumel, we'd paid for and thoroughly enjoyed the "X-Rail adventure" which was a stripped down dune buggy on a muddy trail to a "cenote" (a spring fed cave) and back. You'll find that in an earlier blog, where we sacrificed many items of clothing to the trash, after taking a low speed rolling mud bath through the jungle. This time, we piled in a taxi and invested $7 apiece to travel to The Forum Shops, where we succumbed to the first of several purchases, the most expensive being jewelry.
It was also in Cozumel where I broke down and purchased my own Cariloha bamboo fabric shirt - so light and soft it's almost sinful to feel against one's chest. However, with 40 years of marriage to consider, there are only so many wonderful and soft things I am authorized to place against my chest, so the shirt is going to have to do in terms of worldly pleasures. We also discovered Pancho's - a wonderful restaurant with an outdoor feel of a courtyard with authentic music played at a tolerable volume. We found most places were pushing the VU meters into the red (in terms of decibels), but this place did everything right. The margarita drinks were just right, and the food excellent.
This day, however, was not going to be an "under $100 day" as we had in Key West, but the purchases were those we really liked and wanted. And, I was able to do some decent bargaining to reduce the cost of several items - at least the ship's "shopping adviser" was kind enough to tell me I had. Sometimes it feels good to have smoke blown up your trouser legs, even when you suspect it's not genuine.
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