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...
Sunday Departure
by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Friday, December 21, 2018, 12:30 (2885 days ago) @ HansMpls
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: CheckWill 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!
Sunday Departure
by roadlesstraveledguyMN , Cannon Falls, MN USA, Friday, December 21, 2018, 13:54 (2885 days ago) @ HansMpls
My wife and I are also on the inaugural Sun Country flight of the season but after years of climbing the stairs to our favorite room on the top floor of the Irma we are now staying in a small beachfront hotel in Ixtapa. I may bring Owen Lees " A Prisoner in Paradise" and pass it on at the hotel, my 1st meal will be tacos pastor at Los Braseros 
Sunday Departure
by Paulf , Mount Sterling, Ky 40353, Saturday, December 22, 2018, 10:40 (2884 days ago) @ roadlesstraveledguyMN
My wife wanted to stay some place different. I booked a couple of days at his place- was told we got coffee and rolls in the morning but he had not really opened for the season. He loaned me his personal copy with the corrections to read on the condition I give it back. He had a hammock hanging between 2 trees just past the shelter. I laid in the hammock reading his book with the breeze and his dog laying close to the hammock by me- I could not put the book down. What a experience staying there. He was having to transport water from "Z" for the water line was being repaired. There was a French Couple with a baby on a holiday touring Mexico. We were both staying at his Hotel California. Our unit had a beer cap nailed to the door frame for a door bell- what a laugh. We often laugh about the time there and Kathie first meeting him- She heard someone say something to her and turned around. Here was Owen in a spedo and t-shirt. She was a little embarrassed- he told her where I was and when she found me for us to come to his unit for coffee.
