Previously on The Traveling Together Journal.
We celebrated Thanksgiving at a trailer park in Cancun.
Matt surfed the Caribbean Sea for the first time and we
had a logistics adventure trying to order a new camera in Mexico
We've arrived in Puerto Morelos for the second time for Matt and I.
We had seen this sweet alleyway when we came here before and checked it out. We were like I can't think
we can camp here. So we told our new friends that we met at the RV park in
cancun about this sweet alleyway and they came and saw whether or not they
could fit their huge 5th wheel. There's plenty of room.
This was great advice.
So we are all gonna camp in this alleyway in this
beautiful resort town Puerto Morales.
It's a beautiful morning in our little alleyway.
So I've got to use the restroom
and I really need a cup of coffee so I'm gonna go see if I can score one in the resort.
Bathrooms right there.
Alright, I have success two hot cups of coffee. And I was able to pee next to the pool.
not in the pool though, not like like really next to the pool but there are always bathrooms next to the pool.
Matt and I are thoroughly enjoying our all-inclusive hotel experience.
Relaxing by the pool
bye guys safe travels
We left our sweet little place by the resorts and we're headed into Puerto Morelos the actual town to go look for a catamaran for us to go sailing.
we're feeling pretty confident that it's gonna be too expensive but we're gonna try and
see if we can find it anyways our friends that we've been hanging out with
said that they were willing to maybe split it with us if it wasn't too expensive.
Alright so we just got some good Intel from one of the guys who sells snorkel
trips and fishing trips. Couple let downs. One they don't rent the Hobie's at all
here because it is a protected reef and it's a federal offense for us to go
sailing or fishing so we can't do any spearfishing all fishing has to be on
the other side of the reef which is like 500 yards. You think that's a good guess? 500 yards?
yeah
500 yards from the shore is where the reef starts.
so yeah our hopes of
going spearfishing and then also renting the Hobie Cat got let down but at least we found out.
We've arrived in a place called Akumal. It's supposed to be known for swimming with giant turtles.
So we're gonna go try to swim with giant turtles.
We just had like a huge letdown we're pretty bummed we went to go snorkeling with the
turtles here at Akumal and multiple people were like you can't go with fins
We were like well okay, that's cool, that's fine. I get it. Protection of the turtles
No fins we can snorkel without fins no problem. They also insist and it's it's
the law that you have to wear a life vest. Well we don't have life vest so not
only is it super lame that we'd have to wear life vests and not have fins
because you're not gonna go anywhere if you're trying to kick with a life vest
on but you have since we don't own our own we'd have to rent them so it's like
we just paid 50 pesos to park here and now we have to rent a life vest.
So we're just pretty like annoyed and then you have to go if you want to go outside of
the buoyed area you also have to have a guide so we would have to pay for a
guide and snorkelling is like easy and it should be a free activity and it
shouldn't have to wear life vests so like I get why they have to make
protections especially in such a crowded area but we just don't really need to
see turtles that badly we've seen Turtles before and we're likely to just
be able to go down a little bit and find some more turtles.
We are headed down to Punta Allen and it seems like it a somewhat of a national park kind of area.
We will have to pay like a small Park entrance fee and there's lots of wild
camping along the narrow landmass.
So we already have plenty of food really for
the next few days but after reading all the reviews of Punta Allen and then also
the wild camping options in-between Tulum and Punta Allen we've decided to
stock up even more. Even more water which we almost never do.
So we are feeling pretty optimisitic we're really gonna
love this place like everybody else who went there and will be there maybe like 4, 5, maybe a week.
No se.
well we are having one of those travel days where things just don't seem to be going very well for us.
We just drove all the way through this little hippy beach community of Tulum to get to the national park and we get to the gate
where we're supposed to pay for camping and he sees our dog and says absolutely no.
You can't even go to Punta Allen which is a town and there's all these
camping places like established camping places and they all say the dogs are
okay we like looked and so we don't know this must be some new rule just like the
life vests at the Turtle Beach a new rule so it's just yeah this is a really
disappointing afternoon and we're now getting into that hour where we need to
figure out where we're gonna camp.
As we made our way back through Tulum Amie searched the area and found a spot called Playa Parisio that sparked our
interest so we have set our course in that direction but it wasn't smooth sailing yet.
This officer pulled us over for speeding despite the fact that we
were in congested traffic while passing through his small town.
It was 4:30 so when he said that the police station was closed
It was actually believable, but since he was going to take our license which is what they do
when they actually write you a ticket we asked him where we could camp and
then I chimed in and said you can camp at the police station which is what you
can do and then I busted out the camera and I got a footage of him so I think
you might have seen that as I was putting it away
and he just never really got around to asking for an actual bribe
so I just think that we must have said the right things and understood just enough Spanish. He let us go. but
But I was definitely sitting there going like seriously what else is going to go wrong today
like why why this day but we got let off. We're on our way to Playa Parisio
and the reviews from ioverlander make it sound pretty sweet.
So hopefully all in all the day ends well we have a beautiful place to find home for a week or so
It was a long day. Few disappointments and a little bit of stress with the police and stuff,
but it feels really nice to be on a beach and not currently feeling like
we're surrounded by huge resorts and tons of people and stuff. Not really my thing.
And it's beautiful night hardly any clouds lots of stars and it just feels
nice to be out here sea breeze. It's good.
Early this morning we had to move the kitchen because it's so windy on shore I
probably wasted so much gas trying to make my coffee this morning. So we are just going to rotate the truck.
yeah it looks good.
Alright, it's been three nights so far at Playa Parisio on the Caribbean coast of Mexico and the
Austrian guy here is so nice. He took our trash that we had picked up yesterday
evening and said he would take it to the facility for us since he goes there
regularly to take the stuff that he cleans up he cleans up the beach for
like maybe an hour every morning I've noticed.
And last night he hooked us up
with these awesome homemade coconut drinks.
Tastes like coconut and alcohol
well we talked to some locals and they said this is the normal weather for this
time of year so I don't think there's much point in waiting for the glassy day
doesn't really sound like it happens that often.
So I'm going to go snorkeling
figured we're out here might as well get in the water check it out
maybe the visibility is a little better than it looks out there.
Guys I'm pretty worried about Matt so this storm just whipped in. Like it was
raining it's a little bit and now it's just sort of pouring and tons of wind
and Matt is out there spearfishing and I don't see his buoy
That was truly truly terrifying. I've never been so afraid of losing someone I love.
So I was running down the beach because the wind was blowing in that
direction so I figured if Matt, because he's smart he's a good swimmer he was
getting blown in that direction he would swim in that direction but he would swim towards Shore
So I just started running and this
fisherman I tried to say something to them hoping that would maybe I don't
know maybe take me on the boat to go looking for him and they waved me away
and I didn't want to go push it because the Austrian guy had said that at night
people scanned the beach looking for like cocaine and stuff like drugs
because this is the direction of the wind it all gets blown here that's why
there was so much trash here I don't want to push it they told me go away
away away so I just kept running down the beach and then the guy actually came
running towards me I think he realized that I just needed help and I was able
to tell them what happened my husband is out there spearfishing and he had a buoy
and they said okay yeah we've seen him like he's way out there so they started
to get the boat ready and I said like do you know where it's at like I can't I
can't see it they kept pointing in there I'm like so you can see it and they're
like yeah so eventually I saw it and Matt was swimming directly in shore
So those are the fishermen that were gonna help me out
And there's Matt.
So you were worried?
Well just cuz I woulda cut my head in the water so I
didn't see this wall coming and then all of a sudden the visibility went from
like 20 to 25 feet down like 10 feet and like I was out all the way on the reef
and I was like trying to follow these snapper on kind of like a shallower
section and all of a sudden the waves started breaking over the top of the
other you so then I I couldn't see like float anymore so I like pop my head up
and I could see like the wind waves it started like it pulled the weight along
the bottom like it got loose from its spot where I put it
so I think that is scary anyways I was really worried you were
gone a really long time I hadn't seen your buoy a long swim I barely got to
like start fishing and then that swell came in it's like just when I started
finding some like piece of fish
well I'm glad you're okay me too we've been having lots of squalls come
in and Matt and I have retreated to inside the camper I'm just working on
some videos and see Matt is studying a little Spanish working on it so
experience another little flash storm I'm gonna been here for over a week I'm
running out of water now getting some water
the next day the weather cleared and some other campers showed up then some
more campers and before we knew it we were having an overlander party at one
point the fellows were all playing pit crew helping James rotate the tires on
his delica I shot a couple of fish and him you made everyone a great ceviche
Christa showed us how she makes bread and a camper without an oven and we all
sat around talking story and goofing off into the night
meeting other travelers is great we generally make quick friends over our
common interests but it is bittersweet as we are all on our own journey and it
was only a day or two before I tried disbanded and we each set out in our own
direction not knowing if we would cross paths again we just left
quiet powdery steel and we were there for nine days because
it definitely was paradise at least it was for us and we really wanted to relax
and enjoy Mexico just a few more days longer before we go to a more costly
police on today's agenda we have got to take
Jagger in for a vet visit and it's mellow we just got to get a health
certificate so we're going to head into the city of Chet small get of that visit
hopefully go to Walmart and stock up on all our dried goods since police is
known to be more expensive and we're hoping to end the evening back
at Lake Bach alarm and will stay there probably two nights resting and cleaning
and getting ready for the big order date all right bribed at a place called happy
doggy and this is gonna be our first attempt at trying to get Jagger and help
certificate well we got his health certificate it took a lot of explaining
cuz she it was just like a letter it wasn't like an official form and they
didn't say anything about his rabies vaccinations so we would have spent like
300 pesos for nothing and then they add all the stuff all the
vaccinations to the sheet and then she prints it off and the signature part is
on a second piece of paper you're like that's not gonna cut it either so she
then has to do it again we were total pains but for a piece of paper they got
a lot of money out of us all right we're back at Lake baccala for a second time
you know it's Friday it's still pretty tranquilo here I think tomorrow it
should be busier but they have some new improvements they have a swing set in
the water next to these like precious stone things they don't want anybody to
play on I don't know what they're trying to build oh they were there maybe it was
another swing set
we were going to head to beliefs tomorrow but we ended up just kind of
getting distracted working on another episode and then we hadn't actually
researched beliefs hardly at all so we kind of tried to put a hard day's work
really hard day of looking into the kind of things that we want to do and I think
we've got a pretty good game plan but yet we know that every day brings new
ideas and changed minds so with that idea we are setting off on Monday and we
really do need to leave on Monday I think like the last possible day that we
can leave is technically Tuesday so we want to have an extra day just in case
anything were to go wrong some of our new friends from Playa Paraiso happened
to show up at the same campsite as us and we all decided to walk into town for
some dinner and to check out the local craft shops we had heard about while
walking on the street window shopping we noticed a commotion in the tree above us
and realize it was full of bats enjoying the plentiful flowers
we got everything out of the back of the truck and we are getting ready to try to
smuggle some dog food a little bit of fear it's very classy boxes of wine
anything to save a few dollars and that's back there cleaning out the
details of the truck
exciting times this morning we are on day 179 meaning we have to leave Mexico
by tomorrow we are headed to the police border right now we've got two quick
stops we're going fill up our propane bottle
and get some gasoline and be in Belize in a few hours
feeling pretty good about this propane refill station it's been 13 days since
they've had an accident way to go guys
we currently just scrounged up our last bit of pesos and we are hoping to get it
all into the gas tank and if there is anything left over I'm gonna go buy our
favorite cookies Matt and I just went on a oXXO shopping spree we got some
electrolyte drinks some cookies and four things of ice cream and we spent all the
way down to three pesos left I don't think there's anything in that store we
could buy it for three pesos so now we're ready to go to the border next
time on the traveling together journal we cross the border into beliefs where
we are met with some heavy weather and a new mode of transportation as Matt lends
a hand on this human-powered ferry
Stephen howls thank you for joining the expedition support team on patreon this
bag of trash is for you
thank you so much for your contribution the speech is now a little bit cleaner
and your honor
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