SFO to CUN
6:00 am – Depart SFO for DFW
12:35 pm – Depart DFW to CUN
3:20 pm – Arrive in CUN
3:27 pm – Start immigration line. Usually, if you’re in the front of the plane, the line is minimal. Not the case today.
All four lines are open, each are 10 rows deep, and each row containing approximately 25 people. Yes, 1000 people all trying to get into Cancun. To service these 1000 tourist, there are 5 immigration officers.
4:25 pm – Get through immigration, and passport is stamped. Almost a full hour in line. Next time, carry-on will have wheels. No heavy shoulder bag filled with regulators and lights.
4:34 pm – Retrieve bags and pass customs. The back-up in immigration leaves bags sitting idle without owners on the conveyor belt. After a couple of minutes, the 50# bag appears. The bag is ominously tagged “suspect” by the automatic scan machine. Shortly after, the 49.5# sibling appears.
5:10 pm – Leave Hertz after another confidence crumbling experience. Wait over 15 minutes for the shuttle (not rare) and then have to check the pricing 3 times (first couple were actually the wrong reservation).
6:19 pm – In grinding traffic in front of PA. Construction of a new raised highway has reduced traffic to one lane – causing a stranglehold on rush hour traffic. Between 4pm and 7:30pm, driving northbound past Puerto Aventuras is slow goings. It’ll add at least 15 minutes to the commute.
6:34 pm – Check into the condo. Almost 12 hours of traveling, door-to-door, adjusted for timezone.
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