Redding California

Wait a minute! I think I have found the perfect place.

http://www.ranchosakol.com/

I mean, let's face it... where in the states can you get a thatched roof for under a hundred bucks a night. It's perfect! I love it!

Last edited by Frank (Saturday June 09th 2007 7:08:21 pm)

Sneaking gringos into Margaritaville?

palapa
SYLLABICATION: pa·la·pa
PRONUNCIATION:   p-läp
NOUN: 1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves. 2. A structure, such as a bar or restaurant in a tropical resort, that is open-sided and thatched with palm leaves. 


The Sak-Ol Bed & Breakfast palapa

OK!  You're both on the list.

Let's see now... I should probably reserve two rooms instead of one... and maybe three Volkswagons instead of two.

Anyone else?

For more photos, click below:
http://www.ranchosakol.com/slideshow/slideshow.html

OK. Terri is on the list.

Hmmm?  I'd better make that six cases rum and four tequila.

Anyone else?

Gin or Vodka?

The map:
http://www.locogringo.com/maps/riviera-maya-coast.html

Puerto Morelos is about twenty minutes south of Cancun. You can click the "purple dot" for more about this community, and the "yellow arrow" for an aerial view.

Gin it is!

Last edited by Frank (Saturday June 09th 2007 7:04:02 pm)

Ok! Let me pencil Scarlets name in here.
I am happy to have you join up.
And by the way... here is a Pina Colada just for you.



Anyone else?

Last edited by Frank (Saturday June 09th 2007 6:47:33 pm)

My, My :oops:  wherevar are my ladylike manners    (where do you think, you witchie woman),   ahemm, nevar mind all that.   This is a more appropriate reply.

Why,  I am evar so grateful for your personal invite, and I am sure that I won't be a bothar to ya'all.   Here's to a blissful, relaxin time to be had by everyone.   I am just sure that we will all get along just fine.  I am so sure that if I buy three cases of Tequilla, we will all be best friends.    ( who cares, just give me the darn drinks,along with some peace and some quiet to nurse my ladylike hangovers)----ooops, I mean what a pure pleasure to be able to enjoy the moon and the stars in peace with good people.  I'm lookin forward to the pure pleasure of everyone's acquaintance.   See ya there!!




(yes, indeed, I am blonde----this week)

hey,  :cry: , what the....... did you forget about me  :? ,
i want to go, tequila, warm sand, tequila, cool breezes, tequila, hot women,did i mention tequila?

:shock: whooooohoooooo :oops: , i hope i can behave myself
yea, right,  :twisted:
thanks man,  LETS PARRRRTYYY!!!!!!!!!! 8)

Anybody getting hungry?
http://www.edwardsly.com/cultures/mexifood.jpg

Looks like susanville terri got lost somewheres in Walmart

Well if she is, Toad... I hope it's not in Cancun.  Looks to me like the area is in for a few very rough days.

HURRICANE WILMA UPDATES:
http://www.cancun.bz/cancun_news.htm

LOCOGRINGO FORUMS:
(In case anyone is interested in learning a little more about Quintana Roo)
http://www.locogringo.com/forums/tt.asp … mp;smode=1

Frank,

I was starting to wonder if  Wilma was affecting the area you will be staying at.  I didn't go to the forums yet. I looked up Puerto Morelos and saw that is about 20 minutes south of Cancun.  That is pretty close.  Here  is part of an article I read:


>>>>About 100 foreign tourists stood talking in groups under chandeliers in the cavernous marble lobby of the Hotel Royal Porto Real, near the sea front in Playa del Carmen, another resort just south of Cancun.

"It was meant to be the fortnight holiday of a lifetime," said 28-year-old Simon Hayes, one of four friends on holiday from Britain.
"This is not how I envisaged it working out."<<<

Sounds like that is right where Puerto Morelos is located.  Between Cancun and Playa del Carmen.    Is that correct?

Hope the "palapa roofs" can weather the storm .....

I will go and read the forum you posted now

Dang Frank, I found a bag in a dresser I got at a garage sell full of Mexican money. One 10,000.00 and a 5,000.00 Peso bill (along with coinage), thought I was rich! Went onto yahoo money converter and it was like over 950.00 American dollars! Then I found out that Mexico calls it old money (before 1994) and it is worth 1,000.00 to 1 peso now, drats! And of course I realized it cost about 950.00 in gas to drive down there!  :cry:

For those of you who may be interested, I have posted reports below regarding the effects of Hurricane Wilma on the community of Puerto Morelos (NOTE: We have no news yet about the villa, Casa Sol y Luna, shown above):

What Puerto Morelos looked like before the storm:
http://www.locogringo.com/maps/tour/171a-t.html


Sunday, 8 PM Report from Yayo and not a good one. Disaster in Puerto Morelos, he was very shaken up,emotional, Pelicanos gone, dock gone,---the beach extends now for 100 yards--erroded into the land---everything on the beach looks like it is on a cliff and leaning or gone in to the ocean."The whole town is destroyed". Cece's+Margarites house/shop in town is leaning towards the ocean. The grocery store is ok. Had to litteraly swim to Playa Sol. Villa 6 gone, and the other in front of Politas I think is gone, Toms villa is now where the beach starts with a 6+ foot drop, his house is on a slab leaning into the ocean. Numerious windows blown out, ground floor units seemed ok,??? Uppers have broken windows. He went into ours(3rdfloor)--three windows broken some but not much water in unit. Very quick call as he was on someones else's phone. It seems the other bldgs, #8 (our building) and back--from his point of view--are ok but the grounds, lamps, palapas ruined. Politas damaged, windows out--I think from there back was ok. His fathers house, next to Casita del Mar, house is split in half, the front is gone, the pool and yard is now in the ocean. Ojo is destroyed. Looters/looting already started. The milatary I beleive was going to stay, I hope. So sorry to be the bearer of this news. They are going to try to call tomorrow. — John

Tuesday 9:35 am I spoke for quite a while with Martha Uscanga last night late. They had walked from their place down to Costa Blanca [new white condos between Ceiba & UNAM] to check on it. The building is OK, the shutters are still on all the windows and the a/c units are still in place on the roof. They looked out over a very devastated area from our 3rd floor roof..."Nothing in Puerto Morelos has escaped damage, but there have been no injuries or deaths reported". Andres is on the Civil disaster committee for PM and should know that status. The road to the 307 is still flooded waist deep and it also rained yesterday. There are police stationed on the 307 to make sure that anyone trying to get to PM is a resident or owner. People are wading through the water to get back and forth, in spite of the alligators. There is no food or water being brought in as of yesterday and supplies are running out. She says the people are out and walking everywhere...kind of in shock, just looking at the devastation. Houses back from the beach had damage from the swamp water, mainly perimeter walls washed out. BTW, Ojo is not destroyed...the restaurant, pool, etc. are gone but the building (she thinks) can be repaired. She will call me back tonight with an update and I'll read her the list of people that you all are asking about. — Lucy

I do have to admit, however, that I was looking forward to writing my name on the wall of Bruno's Bar (for those who know what I mean). 

ok,

back from wal mart.  (jeez toad,,,as someone once said "i resemble that remark"...)

wow, what a mess!  so are you there, or still going there, or did i miss something in the translation (wal mart can do that to you)

hope your vacation is still on and good and i'll be slicing the limes.... 8)

How about this place?
http://www.locogringo.com/akumal/azulri … %20Riviera
Be sure to let all the pictures load.

It is closer to the Tulum ruins.

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