We had to leave the island today, but not before we took a wander out to Puenta Sur and stumbled across a dog rescue chock-full of island puppies that we had to stop and play with. I didn’t want to leave. Not the island or the puppies. It’s going to be hard to top Isla Mujeres, but fingers crossed that Cancun’s got something going for it.

Since we had all day to kill and the sun was finally out, we spent a couple hours after checkout lounging at the hostel beach before we hiked two miles with our packs to the Soggy Peso, a little dive bar that I’d heard about on YouTube. It was full of aging ex pats playing cornhole and swapping stories of the glory days, but it was quaint and the tostadas were fabulous. On the way to the SP, we stumbled across an animal rescue and an entire room full of mangy little mutt puppies, just yowling for attention. They were so sweet. I could have eaten them up. I wanted to bring every one of them home. Instead, I gave almost all of my pesos to the rescue and trudged onward.

We got to the ferry an hour ahead of schedule and managed to catch an earlier one over to Cancun. The ride took us through a couple of small rain storms which made it that much more of an adventure. The cab from the ferry to our hotel was 3x the cost of a taxi on Isla Mujeres for less than half the distance, but after packing more than two miles on the island, we were ready for a break. I’ve been trying hard to not be disappointed in leaving Isla Mujeres and the inundation of tourists and chintzy attractions since we got to the resort, but as I said before, it’s gonna be hard to top what was going on out there. In a way I wish I could get out of this all inclusive and the hefty bill, but barring some catastrophe in our room, I don’t think these people will let me out of it.