Postcards from Mexico

Initially, I told myself that I'd just take a break. A true vacation.

I may still do that, this week.

Bright and early, last Wednesday morning, DW and I boarded a plane, recently boosted with the latest bivalent COVID-19 vaccine and masked (I will always wear a KN-95 mask on a flight—pandemic or no pandemic), and made our way back to sunny Mexico. We've returned to our favourite spot, in Akumal Bay, to once again swim with the sea turtles.

From our 2022 visit. I'll never tire of this photo.

At least, we hope the turtles are around (I wrote this post before we left, so with any luck, we've already seen a few). There's never a guarantee that they'll swim outside of the zone that has been restricted to the common vacationing snorkeler.

Unlike our last time here, less than a year ago, I've left my laptop at home. I've brought minimal camera gear: my Insta360 One X and my One R, with only the 4K module (it won't be capturing 360-degree video on this trip); DW's mirrorless camera, for capturing stills and video; and, of course, my smartphone. With the exception of Cuba, in 2016, I always travel with my smartphone.

Unlike some vacations that I've taken in the past, I've written no blog posts, ahead of time, to make up for this week (apart from this one and last week's posts). I left Canada with the idea that if I'm on vacation, The Brown Knowser can take a bit of a break, too.

But then I thought that I shouldn't limit myself. If I want to post something, I can. Maybe.

Without a computer, it's hard to compose a blog post. I'll only have my smartphone, and the small screen makes it so awkward to write that I've always abandoned the idea.

I'll likely be sharing photographs of my trip on my Instagram account, which hasn't received much attention in the past month or so. But I might also share photos right here.

No promises. (Okay, I have a post for Wednesday, which I wrote a couple of weeks ago.)

If I publish something on The Brown Knowser, it might just be a single photo to encapsulate the day. I may or may not write something about the photo. It might simply be a postcard, from me to you, implying that I wish you were here.

Will there be a blog post tomorrow? Come back and see.

Regular blog posts will resume on Monday, February 6.