Getting everything finished up at work and the ranch (wildfires in the area are making me nervous.) and will head off tomorrow for a 4-day stay at the Gran Oasis Riviera Maya on the beach at Akumal south of Cancun. Haven’t been down there for years and am looking forward to revisiting Tulum, Coba and some of the great little restaurants in that area. Also plan on visiting Aktun Chen if I don’t freak out with my claustrophobia.

I originally planned to leave Cancun for these days because U.S. Pres. Obama was scheduled to meet with Mexican Pres. Calderon in Cancun on those dates. Traffic and security precautions are fierce when they have meetings like that so I decided to skip out. Then it was announced that the meetings would be in Mexico City but that is no reason to change plans, right?