Sunday Departure

Sun Country Flight Confirmation: Check
Hotel Irma Confirmation: Check
Inn at Manzanillo Bay Reservation: Check
Dollars for Pesos at the exchange: Check
Reading Material - John D MacDonald - Darker Than Amber: Check

Will be at Valeria on Madera sometime around 2:30. See you on Sunday Zihuat - Zihuatanejo, for those that aren't into the whole brevity thing...

You definitely appear READY. Excellent choice of reading materials. One of my favorite authors with an uncanny ability to paint a scene with words, especially for us old Floridians familiar with the places he's writing about.

One of my favorite passages:
"There was beginning to be such a subtle additive of light that I could make out the ghostly shape of a marker off to my left, where North Pass entered Timber Bay, and beyond it some shadowy tree shapes on the outcroppings that sheltered the bay. The Gulf was quiet, with a gentle lap and slap of small waves on the packed wet sand. I heard a deep-throated diesel chugging through the wet noises of the sea and soon saw the outline of a shrimper heading out. There was a pale yellow rectangle in the amidships area, with a man standing against the glow, and I saw him lift his arm and realized that he was lifting a cup of coffee to his lips. It was so vivid I could smell the coffee."
John D. MacDonald, "The Empty Copper Sea" (1978)

Damn that man could write!