Rufus The Doofus

On our recent trip to Tulum we walked the beach quite a bit. We ended up at Ocho Tulum and decided to check it out for breakfast. The place looks brand new and we had never been there before. We were impressed.
The picture above is the restaurant which is situated right on [...]

I hope to do trip reports of the various places we travel and the places we stay while we’re traveling. On our recent trip to Tulum we stayed at Posada Margherita. We stayed there a few nights on a previous trip and I lobbied hard with the Travel Agency to let us stay [...]

We’ll be checking out of Posada Margherita later this morning and heading up to a condo for one night in Akumal.  Akumal is a little closer to the airport.  We were told we have to be at the airport 3 hours before our departure time.  That seems kinda silly but maybe not unreasonable considering all [...]

I figured out how to upload images over the internet service here in Mexico. The one to the left is us on our first night here. We took a nice long walk on the beach under a full moon. I set up the camera on a small table I snagged from one [...]

I was hoping to be able to post pictures from our trip to Tulum, Mexico.  For some reason I can’t upload photos over the internet connection here at the hotel.  That’s a bit of a bummer.
The flight down was great.  There were only about 35 people on the plane.   I had a whole row to [...]

I’ve been sick the past 5 days. I just can’t seem to shake this head cold and sore throat. I think the sore throat would go away if the congestion wasn’t causing me to snore so horribly every night. I hope I’m better in 32 hours because that’s when our Jet Blue [...]