We talked to Jordan this morning. As he gets ready to go help at boats out, he was donning long Johns, jacket, woolen hat, etc. They had a freeze warning yesterday so he’s scrambling to get the water lines at his cottage blown out. Us? We are in the mountains outside of Puebla. We hit dense fog and the temperature dropped to the mid 50’s. Justin really enjoys this part of the drive in the twisty turns roads in the mountains.
One day I’ll need to check out Hotel Orizaba. The town of Orizaba is about 23km out of Córdoba in the mountains outside of Puebla. If ever we want to go a bit farther than Puebla, this might be an option. And, we might want to check out hotels in Frontera if we don’t want to go as far as Ciudad del Carmen. It is passed Villahermosa but not as far as we are tonight.
As is typical, Justin and I read to each other when we are on the road. Lately, Power Up and The Daily 202 from the Washington Post have monopolized our attention with fodder of impeachment, phone calls with the Ukraine, pulling troops from Syria, and the elections. Since today was Saturday and those publications don’t come out, we were forced to turn to Packer news. Last week Aaron Jones scored four, count them, four running touchdowns in the game against the Cowboys. Today, we read that he’s been fined over $10,000 for his taunting wave at one of the Cowboys as he headed into the endzone. I’d say that was quite nice coming from a Texas boy...he went to UTEP. He might be my new favorite Packer.
Justin sold both his Morgan 30s today. He had mixed emotions about this but he didn’t have mixed emotions at all about his feelings toward a member of Windjammers Sailing Club who was snarky with Jordan today. Lord knows I wouldn’t want to be that guy when Justin gets to the next board meeting. I don’t think between now and May is enough time for him to calm down. Justin penned a very calm, but very clear email message to the guy and selectively chose to forward to a few others. My, oh, my.
Meanwhile, if we don’t have a boat in the water at a slip next year, Justin is talking about travel. Where shall we go? I asked Kim if we’d have an event we needed to add to the calendar but she said not yet as she and Brian will need to wait for a fiancée visa which apparently could take between 6 and 9 months.
The last two hours of driving found us on a two lane road filled with big ole trucks, bicycles and lots of topes. Yes, we are definitely back in the land topes. I swear Gemma is going to stroke out on us. She gets so anxious. I feel really bad for her but dang it, she is one hot mess.
We pulled into Ciudad del Carmen just after six pm. Raju was at the desk of the Hotel Azul to greet us. We only had to unpack the most minimal of items for this our last night. We got halfway settled in our room before Gemma fell into a pool of standing water — again. She did this when we were here one time before. She did not have a good day. And now, she stinks to high heaven.
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