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Missing Isla

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Missing Isla You think it is a little odd to call my blog entry Missing Isla when it is about our vacation to Pureto Aventuras (or maybe not)? Read on to find out why I suffered several pangs of remorse while on our Puerto Aventuras vacation. We had vacations that have started a lot worse than this one but were excellent vacations. For example, our first vacation to Turks and Caicos , we did not get our luggage until we had been there a day and a half and the stores (most all of them) were not open on Sunday so we sweltered in jeans and tennis shoes for over a day before we found an open T-shirt shop and we each bought a shirt and shorts. We also spent $13 dollars for a dusty (but not expired) bottle of of contact solution. Our hotel was a dump, the staff was rude and they claimed that someone had cancelled our reservations. So much for Trip Advisor! We chose the Sibonne because it was advertised as a small boutique hotel, which sounded much better than a large resort. Wrong!...
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Isla Mujeres 2009

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The  no- Dive  (almost) Dive Vacation Another year and another of my wife's shopping weekend at our house. If you have read any previous posts you will see that most years Karen’s aunts, cousins, nieces and girlfriends come to our house to get together and do a little early Christmas shopping. It just so happens that I love to dive so I go diving for four or five days, usually Mexico but I did go  to Key West one year. It works out well, they don’t have to worry about having one male in the house with twenty five or so women and I get to go diving. I love Isla Mujeres, the diving is good, North Beach is beautiful and it is flat out cheap to stay, dive and eat on Isla. This has been one of the quietest hurricane seasons in recent history so I thought I was not going to have a problem with the weather. Oh well, there is always next year. I used frequent flier miles to book my ticket and the only option I had was first class. ...
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La Paz Bolivia 2009

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