decidedlyodd

After the first couple days in PV, I sort of fell off the blogging wagon. I’ll have to fill in some more of those details at a later date.

This morning, I got up, showered and packed my bags for the trip home. Between then and leaving for the airport, I had a couple hours which I used to sit around in my swimsuit on the beach one last time before heading off. Overall, the trip back to Seattle today went fairly smoothly, especially considering how truly insane the lines and crowds were at the airport in Puerto Vallarta. The airport was worse than any I’ve seen in my life, including Thanskgiving or Christmas crowds and excluding that time I flew on the day after that nasty east coast power outage back in 2003. For whatever reason, all the baggage inspection was being done by hand instead of with x-ray machines. That meant just getting luggage checked took forever. Then there was a LONG (although relatively fast moving) security line. Then they were hand searching every passenger’s carry on bags for contraband material that had been purchased in the airport (bottled water, hot sauce, etc.)

Since getting home I haven’t been able to get the pilot lit on my furnace, so my apartment is fairly cold inside right now. Quite the contrast from the balmy 85F highs and 65F lows in Mexico.

Still, it’s good to be home. Of course, I miss laying around on the beach all day, but there’s something to be said for being back in a real city with a broader variety of activities and people to see.