Plane tickets to Mexico? Check.

Super boring? Remembering to call and cancel Netflix and Tivo. Super fun? Buying our plane tickets to Cancun. January 13th, with a layover in Dallas, window seats the whole way. Sweet!

I was surprised to find that most flights were either a red eye with layovers of 10+ hours (who wants to do that?), or else they landed in Cancun at like 9pm. I suppose most people who fly to Cancun have their resort pre-booked so just have to get there, but as a backpacker you want to arrive early in the day so you have time to look around and find a place. We haven't ruled out pre-booking a hotel that first night, although we don't really intend on staying in Cancun. Just a few hours south is Tulum, an old Mayan ruin right on the beach, which sounds far more interesting to us.

We arrive at 3:30 in the afternoon, so we'll have a little leeway to decide what to do.