We weren't particularly excited about air travel on Sept. 11th. God Bless America, please. And traveling on Southwest is usually fun and games. But out of respect, they were particularly solemn on the flight from HOU to CUN yesterday. But to digress just a little and lighten up this post I will tell you -
Don't travel from the US to MX on a Sunday! Here's how it worked out.
We got up at 4 in the morning and left El Campo at 4:30 to give us plenty of time to get to the airport and make our traditional morning stop at the Pappasito's in the international terminal for a most excellent Bloody Mary or two before boarding. It just makes the flight time go by a lot faster and more carefree. Somewhere along the way we realized the whole Sunday morning/no sale of alcohol thing was in force but we also convinced ourselves that it didn't apply to international airport terminals. Well, it did. The last teaser was the big chalk board sign in front of Pappasito's that read "Build your own Margarita"...left over from Saturday obviously.
Fast forward from a very pleasant flight down, the quickest entry and exit through customs ever, a walk to ADO and only a 20 minute wait for the bus to Playa, a short walk through Playa to the other bus stations (yes, it rained on us and we made a couple of wrong turns but so what). We walked into the bus station at 1:27 and a bus was leaving for Mérida at 1:30. We made it. So all in all we made the quickest trip possible for us cheap travellers from El Campo, TX to Mérida, Yuc. ever. The bus trip is 4 1/4 hours and we made it about 5 minutes earlier. That put us disembarking the bus at 5:40 in the evening. In Merida, they quit selling alcohol at 5:30 in the evening Sundays. It's the law...you can buy alcohol in the mornings but can't after 5:30pm.
The moral to this story is: Do NOT fly from the US to MX on Sundays. Fly from MX to the US on Sundays! Now go make it a fabulous Monday.
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