Yay! We have the van! Only a week later than we anticipated….We’re off!
Oh wait – we have to get insurance. Henry’s doing that now. All we need is a scan of the registration. And our drivers licenses. Which means we need a scanner…or a very steady hand with the camera on the phone. And we have to pack up all our stuff and fit it in the van. It’s astounding how much your stuff expands when you live in a hotel room for a week. And then we have to stop at Costco again, because we left all the vitamins and things we bought there the other day in the trunk of the rental car when we returned it. And I need to unpack the coffee-making kit, because this will require more caffeine.
I can’t say that things didn’t go smoothly this week, or that anything went wrong per se. The van is terrific, the money transfer came through just fine, there was plenty to do here in this nice place. But we did fail to adjust our expectations to tropical time. We were vaguely expecting that everything would happen in a day or two and we would be on the road. Lesson duly noted.
I’ve packed all the stuff, Henry’s on his laptop and phone with the insurance company, and I’m about to go check the room to make sure we didn’t leave anything there.
In the meantime, Joe has made himself a nest of pillows in the van and is sitting there, in the sun, waiting to go to Campeche.
Elizabeth
Henry
On to more adventures! Maybe adjusting to tropical time and the particular cultural/governmental challenges is an important part of the adventure?
Woo hoo! Glad you’re hitting the road instead of lounging around wasting time in Merida. I, too, would love to know what the Merida Costco is like. Do they sell the same gallon jars of tsatsiki and olives? We are sitting here at home watching the election returns. The polls closed about an hour ago and I spent most of today helping with the school bake sale (the schools here are polling places). All that must seem very far away to you guys.
Hopefully whoever gets that spiffy Fiat next will benefit from all the vitamins that come with it. What is the Merida Costco like? Mom
No way all that stuff (including a tool kit and many juice bags) would make it to the next renter. Somebody at Hertz hit the jackpot. And all inquiries, including stopping at the airport Hertz office on our way out of town and looking over the car myself, produced any evidence of our belongings.
But we have the Costco receipt, and Hertz is a big company with a reputation to protect. They’ll hear about this soon.
Yay!!!! You’re off!