Well, I got the local time thing wrong. Mexico City and Puerto Escondido are the same time zone. NO big problem, just got an early start on my day by getting up at 4 AM. I never sleep real well while traveling anyway.
I ate dinner in the hotel restaurant. Pretty good. Chicken leg quarter which they cut off the bone pound flat and grill. I went for a walk before eating, looking for a place to catch my eye. This hotel is in a pretty basic area. Big park across the street. Kids playing, but a fair sized number of street people. No stores of any kind with any image at all. Decided to stay inside my hotel's walls.
Flight went perfectly. Left on time landed 12 minutes early.
Suprise!! Suprise!! US customs is greatly improved. Step one they scan your passport and take your picture. Step 2 they look at your "arrival reciept" step three they ask if you have anything to declare and you're done.
No one rifled through my bags or looked at my dirty underwear. Nice. It took longer to get my bag.
My son in law, Randy, showed up right on schedule about 5 minutes after I reached the drive through. It was raining cats and dogs, but soon stopped.
On the way home, I stopped at Walmart and bought the cheapest phone available, a Trakphone, for $10. Also bought a 60 minute air time card, for $20. The sales girl activated it for me. somehow, I ended up with 130 minutes.
This bottom dollar pay as you go looks fine to me. it can access the web. Only down side is you can't load contact lists in via USB. Everyone I ever called in the last 5 years or so is in the Google list. I manually loaded the close family and friends. It'll do until I clear up the SNAFU at virgin mobile.
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