#24 Good Friday at Brisa with Jack

Jack, like a few friends of mine have access to Condos on the beaches of Cancun in the Hotel Zone. He doesn't get paid, just pays all the bills for Bob the owner and makes sure the place is in good running order. Bob comes into Cancun maybe four times a year at the most. My friend Luis on the other hand gets paid to watch over three apts in Yama-Kan for Joe, who lives on Long Island , N.Y. Two of them are in a rental pool and the other is used by Joe the owner twice a year. Luis of course has access to this apt when he wants. I've been their twice with him. The view is fantastic, picture that your on the 6th floor of the Condo, your looking out through a glass wall, the ocean and beach are directly below and tourist look so amall walking he beach and swimming in the ocean. Cool.

I would have preferred going over to the Island with Alton but being Easter Week I really didn't want to fight the crowds. I picked Jack up and we drove to Brisa. The Condo is at the furthest point of the Hotel Zone, a short walk for Club Med. Bob.s apt was nice, small, but with a knock out ocean view. The Condo has 200 units of which 12 are condos built on the beach. The Condos on the Ocean now go for $800,000 to $900,000 dollars. Of course 20 years ago they sold for $150,000. Jack place now goes for $70,000, he paid $7,000 for it some 20 years ago. Same old story, " IF WE ONLY KNEW"

The weather was great. Enjoyed walking on the beach, swimming in the ocean and getting my body browner. Later, some of Jack's friends came down to the pool and we sat around in the shade talking. Two of them were from Italy so it was cool using my brain searching for words to have a conversation. Around 2PM I had enough, Jack wanted to stay and spend time with his friends so I drove home. That night, Jack, Alton and I, all planed to get together at the " Italian Joint"