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I'm drifting away and feeling mighty fine about it, I don't mind saying. For the last hour or so my brain's been telling me to "Listen up. It's the air and the breeze, stupid. Relax! Enjoy!" And I'm so far out of it that I actually speak to my inner voice, "Okay, all right, already!"
The weight-lifting couple sipping diet Sprites in the over-sized chaise next to me has raised their eyebrows. If they were me and I was them I'd have done the same.
"Relax? Enjoy?"
How could I be any more so? I'm in paradise, totally removed from anything even pretending to be the world I just left. I'm orbiting the planet Ultimate Serenity.
Actually, I'm on Mexico's Riviera Maya at a snazzy upscale resort in day 2 of 4 of an all-inclusive get-away package. I'm on a terrace in a chaise shaded by a huge blue and yellow beach umbrella overlooking the turquoise waters of the Mexican Caribbean.
At the edge of the beach couples sun themselves. Some are hopping in and out of the water. A few are tossing Frisbees. Others are following their bliss, doing Tai-Chi. A tanned trio of tres chic femmes languidly lounge topless. I figure they must be from Cannes or Rio, and I tell myself that I should get off my chaise and maybe get a quote for this story. I skip the idea. I'm too enamored of the bliss surrounding me. Later I learned that going topless is a too-too thing on the Riviera Maya.
High above this panorama, the feet of a para sailor dangle below a red and yellow chute advertising a local drink. The contrast in colors is startling.
The only sounds are those of the sea rushing against the white sands of the beach, a breeze brushing its way through stands of palms and the hushed, romantically haunting strains of Speak Low echoing softly in the background.
At any of the Riviera Maya's upscale resorts, there's always more to do than most people can, or even really want to, do. Me? I just want to b-r-e-a-t-h-e in and b-r-e-a-t-h-e out.
But for those so inclined . . .
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