PattybytheSea

 Hi Mom. Got a chance to get away and really just enjoy myself and have some quiet times to reflect. Thought a lot about our other trip to Mexico. Our trips to the shore and the trailer. The fact I forgot to reconnect my wife and the girls going bananas thinking I was lost at sea or kidnapped, but all was good. I got a chance to swim in beautiful turquoise waters and slowly wade alone with my thoughts. Scrape the bottom of my feet in joy against the rocky bottom of the ocean. Meet some great people from all over the world and just get back to being myself. Being a person I remembered. Being an explorer and turning my face toward adventure and the joy of getting to know perfect strangers in a new place. I was thankful and grateful to all the service and law enforcement in Cancun who were all friendly to me and let me laugh and enjoy life. I will never forget it. I had to say goodbye to a friend from the village on my second day and instead of being overly sad, I just said, “we had some