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Our flight back to Cancun arrived late in the afternoon and it took a little longer than anticipated to get through immigration, customs and pick up our rental car. Welcome back, we might as well get used to it as crossing land borders with the truck will probably take longer, much longer.

Back in Mexico

Dbg
2005-11-04 19:32:09

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Monday Feb 21, 2005

Our flight back to Cancun arrived late in the afternoon and it took a little longer than anticipated to get through immigration, customs and pick up our rental car. Welcome back, we might as well get used to it as crossing land borders with the truck will probably take longer, much longer.

We decided to use a rental car for our first few days back so that we could run errands, and more importantly, so that we had something to transport our bags and boxes of supplies for the Fuso.

We arrived back at Mecoloco, the trailer park where we had stored the Fuso to find the vehicle in perfect condition. It was already getting dark so Don climbed up on the roof to pull up the cover, while Kim made sure that it wasn't catching on any corners. After temporarily storing the cover on the rack above the cab, we checked the battery voltage - 12.7 volts, excellent! We then reattached all the battery cables and reset the fuse box and turned on the lights. Yeah, everything worked! Then, as we didn't have any food in the fridge, we went to a restaurant for a great dinner.

Feb 22

Today we went to town and ran errands. We bought groceries, went to Home Depot for a few things for the Fuso and got some money at the bank. By the end of the day we were exhausted and went to bed early. The next couple of days were spent fixing or futzing about on various things for the truck. We knew we'd need a week to get things up to speed and to drive the distance to the Belize border at Chetumal, Mx. By the end of Thursday we were ready to go!

Feb 25

Getting an early start, we hit the road by 8:30 am - rush hour. We managed to get across town fairly easily and headed down to Tulum. We stopped for lunch, bought a few more things at the grocery store and hit another internet cafe to make sure all was OK with ...