Reach #5. May 2023, it had been a long 5 months’ before we would return. We booked a Deluxe room at White Sands for 8 nights and we were surprised to find out we scored a 2nd floor room closest to the beach. How great this! Well not so great after all, the toilet wouldn’t flush very well, no problem, I’ll just borrowed the plunger from the restaurant bathroom for the stay. It had a large patio with zero shade and in the afternoon and the sun would heat up the room. We asked to have the A/C checked out and it was doing all that it could do but it couldn’t beat the heat. They really need some type of shade on the patio to keep the sun from heating up the room. After spending 2 nights in this room, they were able to move us to the room on the back side of the room we moved from. First thing we checked was the A/C, it was working great, next we checked to see if the toilet flushed, yep, it flushed, it flushed so well that it flushed twice, every time.
We decided to do the One Love bar crawl this trip. First stop was Connie’s and it started off with Lenbert trying to retrieve a mango while standing on a white plastic chair and whacking at it with a stick. This did not go well for him as he fell off the chair. From where I was sitting all I could see was the stick trying free the mango from the tree and then I heard a clatter and Lenbert cry out, “Ahh I broke my arm”. His arm did not look good, and he was in a lot of pain, he was unable to continue the tour, so we had to wait for a replacement driver. I don’t remember the name of the roadside bar we stopped at but there was a local lady with a young child and twenty something gentleman hassling everyone for money or trying to sell whatever they had to sell to the point where everyone on the tour was very annoyed. I didn’t even purchase anything to drink. Then there was a commotion going on out by the bus, I looked around for the wife and she wasn’t in sight so I when out to see what was going on, I found her braking up a fight between a couple for boys. The smaller and younger of the 2 was riding along with us on the bus and the bigger older boy was trying to steal the younger boy’s money off the bus. At that point it was time to move on to the next stop. The rest of the tour was great and by the end we were great friends with everyone on the bus.
Once again, another great trip but 8 days isn’t long enough.