Montezuma's Revenge

Yes, even seasoned travelers like us wasted two sunny days in Mexico lying around in our hotel room blowing splatter patties (my brother Kurt’s descriptive of diarrhea). Hit by the bug, but blessedly not too hard, I succumbed to drugs today, while Bill, in his wisdom, took his Imodium yesterday.

Otherwise all is well. We keep pinching ourselves that we are actually (and finally) going to Sri Lanka in the New Year. However, with this good news we are realizing that we might again be adjusting to a new country with drinking water crawling with amoeba and bacteria. Oh, the joy of looking forward to that.

We shall say goodbye to you all, yet again. However, George Elliot in her outstanding book, Middlemarch, hits a little too close to home when she wrote the following:

“ It is certainly trying to a man’s dignity to reappear when he is not expected to do so: a first farewell has pathos in it, but to come back for a second (how about a fifth?), lends an opening to comedy, and it was possible that there might be bitter sneers afloat about (Wendy and Bill’s) lingering.”

Oh, laugh at the comedy and sneer if you will (I know you won’t) for our dignity is intact. Our only sin is that we love our family and friends and therefore hope to see you all again, at least one more time, before we leave.

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