Nice week

Last week Trish & I went to Cancun
We’d planned this sometime ago and we had a really nice week

Visited Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itzá, and went snorkelling a couple times

On the ride over to Isla Mujeres we sat near this gent from Goa India who was on board without his girlfriend (she was sick that day)
We struck up a conversation and it turns out he’s in the same line of work I am
And we had a great visit for about 2 hours
I’m sure Trish was bored as heck as we talked nothing but tech & geek topics the entire time

And when we finally departed the boat we both made a deliberate & concerted effort to find the other & thanked each other for what turned out to be a great conversation which made the trip even nicer

It made nice day even nicer to meet someone as passionate about the things we talked about

And then the last evening we were there we sat with another resident of the condominium and her daughter.

At first the daughter wasnt very engaged in any of the conversations. Then her mom asked about what the heck was going on in Tennessee and the Tennessee three & I explained what that was and what had occurred.

Her daughter then joined in and became quite animated and engaged and we sat & talked politics for a couple hours. She was extremely well spoken and knowledgeable.

And her mom just sat and you could see her smiling as we talked.

And we covered a lot of topics from politics to health care to Canada’s governmental systems and a lot in between.

Eventually it grew late and the young lady departed

At that point her mom leaned over to me and said “Thank you VERY much for finding my daughter in there”

She said that her daughter had, through covid, become quite withdrawn and disengaged and that this was perhaps the most conversation she had engaged in in the last 3 years. Mom was almost in tears as she said her daughter had come out of the shell she built up through covid & all the lockdowns and isolation.

I have to admit that I felt really glad to have “helped” but it was so easy. I just talked to her daughter and we had a great chat. It was thoroughly enjoyable especially to see an under 20 person so knowledgeable and engaged in politics and so much else going on in the USA.

Oh yeah. Cancun was fun too !