Paamul: Mexican trailer parks rock

First morning on vacation, woke up early and made a nice cooked breakfast with oats, mango, and milk. mmmm.... Once the rest of the Mayan Riviera was up and moving, we drove south 15 minutes to Paamul for some sun on an empty beach.

Paamul is pretty small. A cool looking trailer park, restaurant, and a beautiful beach. Not sure what else one would need..? Sitting on the beach near the restaurant I enjoyed a cerveza while Beth worked on a mondo strong margarita. The drinks and made it pretty easy to distract us while we were getting pretty good sun. Oh yeah, I'm from the pacific northwest. I seemed to forget that.

Drove back to "Playa" as it's called in the afternoon. Lunch at a taqueria; the restauranter said the dog tacos were pretty good so I couldn't pass him up on that. Somewhere along the way Beth missed her sunglasses, so after lunch we made our way to Walmart. Yes, Walmart. While I can't really compare to US Walmarts, the Mexican one seemed pretty well stocked. Actually, I think the Playa Walmart was even better equipped: a parking lot attendant was there to put cardboard on windshields of cars in the parking lot to protect from the sun. Ok, I'm not sure if he was a full time employee...but that's something you don't see to often.

Back home to crash for awhile. Then off to get some dinner; we decided to walk to town. First stop: Cafe Sasta for caffeine. And whatdya know, but they had blueberry muffins. Before the trip, when I didn't think we'd see blueberry anything in Mexico, I said I'd do a tequila shot if we found blueberries while on vacation. So after being hopped up on caffeine we went out for some tequila. Beth wasn't familiar with the various types of tequila so we had to get a blanco, reposado, and anejo. Fair enough. Now we were doing pretty good.

So yeah, about that dinner. Walked over to a grocery store to pickup some goods: tortillas, peppers, chicken, tomato, beans, avocado, salsa. Maybe it's my misplaced tex-mex taste buds, but the home cooked food was better than most of the restaurant food we had all vacation. Then again, it could be due to the taquerias serving dog.