Comments on: “Do you boys like Mexico?” http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/archives/1797 Turning a New Leaf Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Melly http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/archives/1797/comment-page-1#comment-4531 Melly Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:54:50 +0000 http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/?p=1797#comment-4531 If I don't go to all-inclusive resorts to get pampered and drink ridiculous amounts of alcohol, I never get any reading time in during the year. This is the sad, but true fact of my life. Also, I stay away from the internet the entire time I'm gone. It's a wonderful break. I bring 7-10 books, a giant bottle of SPF 60, a ridiculously large sunhat and the various and sundry stomach remedies that keep me going even while here in the Great Whitish North. The first time I went I snorkeled in a marine preserve. It was one of the most awesome experiences ever. I love Mexico - the posh resorts and the touristy bits and the "real" parts. My favourite trip was when I was twenty and went across the border from Texas into Matamoros. I got loaded and fell down some stairs, someone set my dress on fire, and an 11-year old villager grabbed my ass. Having gone to PV and to the Yucatan, I have to say that I love the Caribbean side for the beaches, but if you're on the Pacific side, it's much easier to find more to do off-resort, like Al did. The above lacking--in-cohesion thoughts brought to you by the beginnings of a headache... Sorry. :( If I don’t go to all-inclusive resorts to get pampered and drink ridiculous amounts of alcohol, I never get any reading time in during the year. This is the sad, but true fact of my life. Also, I stay away from the internet the entire time I’m gone. It’s a wonderful break.

I bring 7-10 books, a giant bottle of SPF 60, a ridiculously large sunhat and the various and sundry stomach remedies that keep me going even while here in the Great Whitish North.

The first time I went I snorkeled in a marine preserve. It was one of the most awesome experiences ever.

I love Mexico – the posh resorts and the touristy bits and the “real” parts. My favourite trip was when I was twenty and went across the border from Texas into Matamoros. I got loaded and fell down some stairs, someone set my dress on fire, and an 11-year old villager grabbed my ass.

Having gone to PV and to the Yucatan, I have to say that I love the Caribbean side for the beaches, but if you’re on the Pacific side, it’s much easier to find more to do off-resort, like Al did.

The above lacking–in-cohesion thoughts brought to you by the beginnings of a headache… Sorry. :(

]]> By: Alex Willis http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/archives/1797/comment-page-1#comment-4528 Alex Willis Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:43:09 +0000 http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/?p=1797#comment-4528 We've had this conversation already, but your post is a more clear assessment of your position, which I can appreciate a lot more now. As a fellow think-too-mucher, I found myself surprised to really enjoy my resort time in Mexico. I think a great deal of this enjoyment was derived from the fact that I was so close to Puerto Vallarta. I spent very little time at the resort, as the city was so close. Now, the city was a real "touristy" place, so I am under no impression that I experienced the "real" Mexico. But I was traveling with my mother, who is, I am happy to report, an excellent travel companion, and who had been to PVR before, and she informed me about all the excellent things to do around PVR (and there are many of these). I guess what I am trying to say is that conditions for my enjoyment were optimal. Coming back to the resort after full days away from it was actually enjoyable. We only ate one supper at the resort, the night before we left, out of a need to pack and be up early the next day. But as for the other evenings returning to that pampered den, I quite enjoyed sauntering down to one of the bars for a ridiculously parasoled drink and smoking a fine cigar on the beach afterwards, and watching the sunset. I was also accompanied on my trip by the wonderful writings of Iain Banks, whom I had rekindled my love for, and reading The Algebraist by the dying light was a pretty irreplaceable experience. I'll stop now. I am not trying to rub anything in, because I think that I could just as easily have had the same experience as you. I like winging it, wandering aimlessly, much more than I do the feeling of safe enclosure. Maybe it's kind of sad that I discovered that I am happy with safety, kind of like how at one point last year I thought that Stephen Harper had made some really good points about something or other. Fuck. I don't like where this is going. We’ve had this conversation already, but your post is a more clear assessment of your position, which I can appreciate a lot more now. As a fellow think-too-mucher, I found myself surprised to really enjoy my resort time in Mexico. I think a great deal of this enjoyment was derived from the fact that I was so close to Puerto Vallarta. I spent very little time at the resort, as the city was so close. Now, the city was a real “touristy” place, so I am under no impression that I experienced the “real” Mexico. But I was traveling with my mother, who is, I am happy to report, an excellent travel companion, and who had been to PVR before, and she informed me about all the excellent things to do around PVR (and there are many of these). I guess what I am trying to say is that conditions for my enjoyment were optimal.

Coming back to the resort after full days away from it was actually enjoyable. We only ate one supper at the resort, the night before we left, out of a need to pack and be up early the next day. But as for the other evenings returning to that pampered den, I quite enjoyed sauntering down to one of the bars for a ridiculously parasoled drink and smoking a fine cigar on the beach afterwards, and watching the sunset. I was also accompanied on my trip by the wonderful writings of Iain Banks, whom I had rekindled my love for, and reading The Algebraist by the dying light was a pretty irreplaceable experience.

I’ll stop now. I am not trying to rub anything in, because I think that I could just as easily have had the same experience as you. I like winging it, wandering aimlessly, much more than I do the feeling of safe enclosure. Maybe it’s kind of sad that I discovered that I am happy with safety, kind of like how at one point last year I thought that Stephen Harper had made some really good points about something or other.

Fuck. I don’t like where this is going.

]]> By: David http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/archives/1797/comment-page-1#comment-4527 David Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:49:15 +0000 http://www.pipesdreams.org/blog/?p=1797#comment-4527 Your description of your "typical" vacation sounds like how I spent a substantial amount of time between high school and university and between undergrad and post-grad studies except: - not a question of deciding if I should eat the dodgy street food but rather which dodgy street food I should eat - no avoiding eye contact with strangers Your description of your “typical” vacation sounds like how I spent a substantial amount of time between high school and university and between undergrad and post-grad studies except:
- not a question of deciding if I should eat the dodgy street food but rather which dodgy street food I should eat
- no avoiding eye contact with strangers

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