Happy Birthday to Joe!
Happy Birthday Joe! If you are have a January birthday AND it happens to fall on Martin Luther King weekend AND it is a major milestone birthday AND it is right after the first snowstorm of the year AND it is going to be the first polar vortex of the year, what do you do? Why go to Mexico of course! That is exactly what Joe requested for his birthday, so on January 18 the family headed south of the border. There was concern about traveling as we wondered whether the unpaid TSA workers would show up. Fortunately most of them did (and we thanked them) and we were off. What we found when we landed in Mexico was not caravans of immigrants mobbing the roads trying to go North, but actually caravans of cold Americans and Canadians trying to get in. We joined huddled masses whose only desire was to get out of their socks and closed toed shoes and waited in the long customs line to get in. At last we made it to our place of refuge - a sunny resort with a lovely beach and fantastic f