WEB CAM IN PARADISE

In June of 1999 DH went with a group of university professors 

on a trip to learn about ancient cultures of Mexico and Guatemala.  

Spouses were invited along.  I didn’t have to be asked twice.

 We spent two weeks visiting some amazing places and toured the ruins 

of Teotihuacán, Tikal and Chichen Itzà.  

Before we returned we spent two days and a night 

in a little village on the Caribbean.

DH and I brought along our snorkel gear and were enchanted 

by the beauty of the life in the coral reefs 

just yards from our bungalow on the beach.

 We vowed some day to return.

For a long time we could only watch that turquoise sea 

on the Akumal beach webcam. 

http://www.locogringo.com/Upload/akumal-beach-cam.html  

Finally, after twelve years, the pieces of our plans came together.

The morning after we arrived we found the web cam 

on a restaurant by the sea.  We texted our daughters in 

Utah and Idaho and told them to check us out on their computers.

 I wrote, “HI ANN” in the sand 

and we received excited text back that they could see us. 

A friendly couple came by with the same kind of idea.  

She was from the United States and he was originally from Germany.

While we visited with the wife he grabbed a piece of coral from the sand 

and proceeded to write, “BERLIN” for his friends to see back in Germany. 

 As a result the screen shots our daughter saved on her computer 

have the rear end of this geezer wearing a  floppy hat 

and long black socks—one up to the knee and one down.

 We didn’t care.  We were in paradise.