Tulum

We flew from Bogota to Tulum today. The flight was great. It was so empty that we each had an entire row to ourselves. Once we landed we became hapless.

At customs they wanted to search our giant suitcase. But, we locked it and couldn’t remember the code. Turns out it was 000 Then Jeff got stopped when the sniffer dog alerted on his suitcase. When we left I put all our leftover spices in zip lock bags and took then with us. Turms out you can’t take seeds into the country. Customs officials confiscated cumin seeds and red pepper flakes. Then we went to call an Uber and found we had no cell phone data and also there isn’t Uber in Tulum. It all worked out we got a taxi, got to our Airbnb and went out to dinner.

Bye for now to Panama

Jeff and I finished moving out of our apt. I’m going to miss this view and our balcony.

Here it’s our Panamanian storage locker. And yes we still have one in Seattle.

Because we are flying to Mexico on a Colombian airline we have a stopover in Bogota.

We got in late but Yuly our online Spanish teacher met up with us. It was so fun to see her in person.

Hernia good and bad

So I now have a hernia. It’s from surgery and very common. As you can see in this photo I have to wear this hernia belt. In the house I wear it over clothes but when I go out it’s under my clothes. It doesnt hurt but it los bad and I have to be super careful. Eventually I’ll need surgery to fix it.

But the good part of having a hernia is a valid excuse to not lift boxes. Jeff spent the day with someone he hired to boxes to our storage space. I didn’t even go with in the car. So that’s the good part of having a hernia.

Packing and the dentist

This is me in the Uber on the way home from the dentist. I was so happy when it was over. It really wasn’t that bad. It was a small cavity and even the shot of novicane didn’t hurt. And it only cost $68.

On a different note, Starbucks laid off 1,000 people in the corporate offices today. And, they did it but email! That is the part that makes me the most angry. I don’t know that many people there anymore, but two of my good friends were laid off. Probably more people that I used to work with I just haven’t heard yet. It’s such a different company than when I started in 1999.

I’m glad I worked there in the “good old days” when it was still a good place to work.