Cancun is a radical change for my travel. First of
all I will have a hotel room for me alone. Here I don
t really feel in Mexico because there are more tourists
than inhabitants. Some of the things I try to avoid
normally. Second thing I will meet people I allready
know. That kind of thing didn t happend during 3 months.
I m realy happy to see them again.
 Trujillo
- Lima - Miami - Cancun flight. I arrived by
plane going from Trujillo to Lima to Miami to Cancun.
If they could be more undirect plane maybe I will had
it. After a long time travelling by bus going back to
the international plane procedure seems going back to
modern civilisation. And thats mean, complicated for
nothing. I get confronted to the slow burocratie rules
of the "Airport Control System". Lines of
stressed tourists, lines of luggages waiting to be examinated.
I first had to answer some questions: Why do I want
to get to Miami ? Well I don t want, it s just
that there is no direct fly to Cancun. Okay how
long will I stay there? One hour or two, the time
it takes to change from one plane to the other. And
the serie of questions about drugs, illegal merchandise
continue. I finish to answered the stupid questions,
of course I m not a terrorist...blablabla and walk to
the next line. Then one guy is coming and scream my
name. I go out of the line and follow him to my backpack
that I gave before. Now I had to open it. Not just a
pocket but all the pockets. And a backpack has a lot
everywhere. When I think that I took 20 minutes to put
all my stuff properly. Naturally they find nothing.
The 3 coca leaves I had were in my little bag and they
didn t look at it. This security system is just preventive
"Bullshit". Sorry for that ! Thats our time.
The more modern we are the more stupid the rules we
invent. We invent rules again rules we already invented.
We work again the consequences to our modernism. But
in fact when I get out of all this system I could feel
how bound we are to our community. Something that doesn
t exist in undevelopped area. What is better ?
Well I get back in the line, at my place and finally
arrived to the check-in-office. Here I get informed
that the plane will be two hours late. That s mean I
will not have my flight from Miami to Cancun in time...They
checked everything and book my new plane from Miami
to Cancun.
Okay...I m inside the airport, waiting for my flight
and going again in a security system. The one scanner
with the magic power to look into your bag without open
it. And they found out that I had a mini cutter. So
mini that if I wanted to kill a mosquito I couldn t
manage that. I gave it and told them that their systems
have a big failure. I mean when I will get into the
plane we will have plastic knife but metal fourch which
could easely transpers the neck of a pilot. They look
at me terrified. If I would have say that in Miami I
will now write from the jail. Hehehehe. But in fact
in the plane I had the metal fourch.
Welcome in Cancun. I arrived there with thousand
of United States Of America Inhabitants. The difference
with Miami was unexistent if you look at the people
because Cancun is a kind of USA colonie. Now I will
consacre time for my family. The next days they arrived
one after the other. First Patrick my big brother with
his future wife Daniela coming from LA. Then my Mom
and my sister Karina coming from France. And finally
my Alys, my ex-girlfriend and my new girlfriend (Beatles:
LOVE LOVE LOVE...) I like her so much ! (Freds get red).
The next days my lifestyle changed totaly. Patrick and
Daniela had everything organized. They already knew
what we can do and planed the next days for his mariage
a la perfection. If I had to get married I
will be the opposite. Just chaotic for that kind of
stuff.
They managed to bring 40 people here and organized everything
to satisfied all the people. And believe me it is stress
to do. But they did it. Perfect food, perfect restaurants,
perfect hotels, perfect bars, perfect people, perfect
transportation. Well my big brother ;-)
We went out a lot of time to restaurants, meet the friends
and family of Daniela coming from Germany to USA and
Venezuela. I really like this kind of meeting where
everybody switch from one language to the other. I meet
people who will became part of my new family. Very happy
to see also my sister and my brother in the same time.
That s not happened so often. But this time we were
all in the same country, unbelieveble.  The
place where we went, were all approved by Patrick and
Dani. One night we went in this restaurant a la James
Bond. Beautifull decoration, open terasse to the Lagoon.
Kermit Jr. realy liked it. The food was as exellent.
I eat gambas (big shrimps) in a secret ensorceling sauce.
The drinks are in big generous glasses. I met Nathalie
the wife of Dany s brother. She is great ! A Colombian
girl full of energie and allways a smile left. The time
came and I went to catch my Alys in the airport. Kermit
Jr. was exited. Alys will join me for the wedding and
then will travel few weeks with me arround Mexico. This
girl has two face, the shy and the funny one. Shy with
the people she don t know and when she get the feeling
of the people she change and is a very happy girl, enjoying
all the little things that people will never catch.
She get the sensibility of a cat and the distance that
this animals can have with people they don t trust.
 1,
april 2004 LA PINATA ! The fiesta begun on
the first of April, when we get in this nice restaurant
"Hacienda El Martero" a replica of one Hacienda
that exists somewhere in Mexico. Here Patrick and Dany
order a big table for 40 peoples. But first the traditionnal
Pinata. A star with a lot of colors suspended and moved
in front of the future married. This two one bounded
their eyes and have to hit the pinata until it breaks.Good
ambiance, very funny...Then the 3 mariachis played music
until we have few drinks. Marguaritas of all kind of
taste with some nachos and spicy sauces. We get to the
tables and had a very good dinner. I set close to King
Patrick and Queen Dany. We had good time. The night
ended and each one get back to his hotel. Most of the
people were in one of the big resort in the hostel part
of Cancun. My mother rented a studio with Karina close
to the Lagoon and I go back to my hotel with Alys in
the Cancun Center, a little cute typical mexican hotel
(hamac, palms and quite).
Outside in the nightlife of Cancun the young american
girls and boys where going out in one of the disco or
bar. I went in one of them one night. And here you find
a bunge of drunked young people. The guys (70% of the
people) are drinking one glass after the other. They
dance close to the girls, very close. I feel in the
MTV video clips here. The girls are as drunk as the
boys and get in a big delirium. One in front of me just
took her tshirt to exhibite her tits (if you want the
link of the pic/movie - send me a mail - U see U believe
me). I became involved in this "Spring break"
ambiance for an hour. This is the other side of America.
It s a kind of funny the picture of this country USA.
On the one side they want to show that they are the
best country in the world, acting always for the good
and against the evil. On the other side this pseudo
puritan image is filled with contradiction. Okay here
in Cancun is the drink and be drunked parties of this
18 years old americans. In USA its say don t drink until
21. I don t know so much from USA but what I know seams
contradictory. Have to visit it to understand better
this politic and mentality . Maybie this young people
just didn t want to think about what there where doing,
just get a party, making crazy things and escape in
this nightlife...
 Well
but Cancun is at first a Hollidays city. From the US
its just a step to the beautifull beach with the white
sand and the deep blue water. Its the most incredible
sea color I ever seen. I was in the big hotel of my
brother as I saw it for the first time. And I was realy
fascinated by the color. The swimming-pool seems to
be grey in comparison to the water. The hotels are one
biger than the other, and propose everything from food
to massage. The one of my brother was building with
his own jungle. Everywhere plants go down from the different
floors. I will not speak about the breakfast buffet
who was a tentation. Eggs prepared in front of you how
you want, all kind of fruits, pancakes with chocolate
or white to brown honey, croissant....and and and....I
couldn t resist this tentation. So good.
What I could feel during all the Cancun time was the
difference between me and the other. People are stressed
with some little problem that really means nothing.
Some other are bound with things that are not so important.
Living with my backpack this last month bring me out
of the system. Seeing and living the present are my
first rules. All the future is uncertain and all the
past is an experience for the present not a heavy ball
attached to the foot. The watch is not controling me,
the only moment I need it is when I want to take a bus.
In the daylie life at home we all are controled by this
little thing, the watch, 2 or 3 sticks that move in
a circle, pointing of some numbers. This numbers decide
when we have to do something, when we are late, when
we are early. In my new life, that means nothing if
its too late for doing something, I do it never or I
do it tomorow. Just try to live 1 month with no planing,
no real goal, no radio, no tv, no newspaper.
----------------------- Imagine now that you are in
an environment you don t know. All what you know is
not important. Important is how you react in front of
an unknow situation, unknow people...and also unknow
food (But thats an other story "Lorenzus bacterius"....).
Well I should stop to think and go back to Cancun...So
what I want to say is that I already changed. Can t
explained really how, why and if its good or not. Deep
in me something happend and now I get back in the modern
civilisation where confort is more important than life,
real real life. I wish my trip will never finish. I
wish all of you could live what I m living. I wish you
will know all my friends. I wish that you find out for
you what is really important in your life. Before you
die. Before you regret. Before you miss something.
I m still the same but when I see the people I know
I feel that they did not change as I did in just 3 month
of travelling.
A lake without fishes look the same as a lake with fishes,
but if you look deep in the water you will see the difference.
They are just few people who do that. They are just
few people who see the fishes. :-)
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