We stayed in a Drury inn in Kansas City Sunday night. Got up at 5:15 organized, had breakfast and on the way by 6:15. Some good things about this particular chain of hotels:
- Dinner is included in the price
- 3 drinks are included (the beer was lite, so I had a generic gin and tonic)
- Breakfast was included and pretty good
First stop gas for the rental car, then a short drive to the airport to drop off the car.
Our luggage is a bunch of stuff for the boat. We had 3 checked bags, the heavy one was 60 lbs, and the checked bag fee was $100, and $100 for being overweight. While that seems expensive, it would have been much more to ship this stuff. Oh, and we used airline miles to fly, so our tickets were very low ($70.64 for the two of us). So, the price to get us and our stuff to Mexico was $270.64.
The only odd thing we encountered on our flight was a delay in boarding the flight from Dallas to Puerto Vallarta, there were several people needing assistance and at least one of the first class passengers at the head of the line, presented a boarding pass for a different flight. That took quite a bit of time to sort out. As a result we were about 20 minutes late pushing out.
When we arrived in Puerto Vallarta, we got right through customs and immigration with no problems. Caught a cab and we were back on our boat around 5:30 or so.
One question that we had was about Sirius XM, we use this virtually all the time. We have a radio in both trucks and the boat, but given a choice, we use the app and listen to a variety of Pandora stations through the stereo as there are no commercials and not even any announcers. This did not work when we were in Mexico last year, but it does this year!! So, as long as we have internet we use this!
Issues on the boat were:
- The new canvas covers sag in a few places exposing the varnish
- The dehumidifier did not do as well as we expected, so we have some mold to deal with
- All the stuff that has been off for 6 months has to get started back up. Somewhat different than a house or an RV, we have had high humidity and salt in the air.
- It appears that I may have left my coffee cup in the rental car. (UPDATE, I found my cup, it was in the computer bag!)
- There will probably be more things with issues
We got the A/C going, the boat was about 90 degrees, and humid. Then unpacked and headed out for dinner and the pool. We did not get to the pool before it closed. We headed back after dinner, had showers and slept in our own bed. (YEAH!)
This is the post I made on Facebook when we were at the airport in Kansas:
