Esmeralda K

As I was leaving Cocos last night, I had to stop and turn back around a couple of times. I must have tried to leave twice but couldn't pull myself away from the beauty of the beach behind me. I finally decided I needed to just sit on a beach chair and stay until it was too dark to see. There was only one clean chair, and it was right next to a quite hunky guy. I sat down and said, "I can't leave. How do you leave this place? I tried to leave 3 times." He was nice enough, and we started chatting it up. He said well at least stay until sunset. I said yeah, that was a good idea. We talked about business and travel. He is from Australia and has the sexiest accent. We never ran out of things to chat about. He said he was also traveling alone for about 6 months now and had an online fitness coaching business that charges $1200 for 3 months membership. Incredible. So he invited me to go for a walk down the beach, which felt ridiculously cheesy, but I said yeah, sure. We just kept talking and vibing. It was awesome. His name is Jake, and he asked me what I had planned to do with the rest of my night. I told him I planned to grab a shower and then head up to Playa to try and find the thieves who stole my favorite clothes out of my rental car trunk and get them back. He was surprised, understandably, but invited me for a drink after our showers, and I was honestly kind of excited to ditch my recon mission to talk with him some more. It took what felt like forever to get back to my room. When I arrived, I had a text from him saying he was going to dinner with his friend from Peru at 930, but we could get a drink beforehand. Unfortunately, I wouldn't make it back down there in time, so we rescheduled for today. I was a little tired anyway, so I took my shower and headed to Walmart in Playa, where my car was broken into. I searched the trash bins and asked security where I should look. They didn't know where but told me that the problem is that the thieves work with the car rental agencies and have keys that will open the doors, and it's a big problem there. I eventually felt discouraged and gave up, let it go. I booked it back to tulum to try and get some dominos before bed. They were not making anything more for the night but offered me a pepperoni that just came out of the oven. I took it back to my room and ate what I could. I was wide awake from all the cocoffees that I drank at the beach club and started a Netflix show about crazy cat people hunting down a cat killer on the internet. It had me glued to the screen. I was so mad at this suspect. I smoked a ridiculous amount of weed outside and fell asleep eating Kinder Bueno chocolate and gummy skittles.
Today, I went to 5 different beach clubs to check them out to see if I could find something comparable to Cocos but different... they were all subpar. I stopped at Papaya Playa, Taboo, Tantra, Selina, and Azulik, and none of them came close to having the excellent vibe that I found yesterday. Jake was there hanging out, so I said hello to him but wanted to keep my pillow paradise, so I went back to my spot to wait for my guacamole that I had ordered to arrive. It was delicious and served with these thin and crispy banana chips that I fell in love with! I never saw Jake again, even though he said he would come say bye before he headed back up to his apartment in Playa. Whatever. I ate more mushrooms earlier and have just been having the most splendid time with myself, going over all the photos on both phones all day. It's going to take a long time to make them all fancy in light room, but I'm here for it and can do it on the travel day tomorrow as well.
Tonight, I'm going to go to see Virginia at her restaurant one last time before my super sad departure. I could spend another week here and probably another one after that and so on. I'm just waiting for the sunset to cast its gorgeous colors on the beach clouds one more time. It's 5:55 so should happen in about 30 minutes.Read more