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Is this what we are hurrying back for? |
Driving out of Celestun was rather surreal. We told them at the checkpoint that we would not be returning until the fall. Once we pulled out, we knew we would not be able to return since Celestun has shut down its borders too. The Yucatan as a whole has been very proactive. This is a good thing... until you are driving out. I hadn’t realized until today that this means Abraham can’t go home to his home each week. This is how he gets money to his mom. Instead, he’ll be spending his day off, Mondays, in Celestun at our house.
Farther down the road we ran into a couple of “sanitary check points.” They asked where we were going and where we had started. They took out temperature at one of the checkpoints. The guy held the probe to our forehead... very quick and non invasive. I declined the informational paper he was distributing as I didn’t want to harbor any virus in the car.
We stopped for one last swim early afternoon. |
We pulled into our hotel about 6:30 pm. Allison told us about this hotel, Hotel Baez Carrizal. We’ve been happy with our hotel in Ciudad del Carmen but we wanted to get a bit farther down the road. This spot turned out fine despite the fact that google maps did not provide directions that were anywhere near accurate. We called and the hotel staff forwarded directions through What’s Ap.
I broke with the plan when I went inside looking for a luggage cart. I didn’t see one but the guy saw me looking so he followed me to the car. Great! He touched every bit of our luggage as he placed it on a cart that had been touched how many other people and all their stuff... huge mistake.
Day One in the books. 356 miles; about eight hours drive time; 245 pesos in tolls
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