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I miss many things about Mexico. The people, food, micheladas, the beach and the weather! Oh the weather… But one of the things that I miss the most is the sky! I have never seen a more beautiful sky than the sky in Playa del Carmen!
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It’s a crystal blue like I have never experienced before. And the clouds! Everywhere! Huge, puffy, nebulous! So close that sometimes I would try to reach out and touch them. But of course I never could…
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The tropical storm season in Playa lasts from May to December. But the rainy season lasts through January. It is this constant flux of rain that brings the clouds rolling in and then rolling out again toward Cozumel. You can get lost for long periods of time watching the clouds roll through. You can actually see them moving across the sky – the winds blow them that quickly.
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You can also stare at the clouds long enough that you see faces and animals and shapes of all kinds. I would spend extra time staring at the sky every day. On the drive to work and back home, I would sit in the car with my head half hanging out the window as I tried to visually breathe in the entire Caribbean sky to my memory! Luckily I wasn’t driving!! But my colleagues did think my profound silences while staring at the sky were slightly anti-social. Hahaha…
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The sky in Chicago is nice – it has crisp blues. But not blues that shimmer like jewels and are as rich. Chicago has clouds and sometimes you can see shapes in them. But they seem so far away. I would never think of trying to touch them. Nor are they as fluffy. I remind myself that I will return one day to Playa. And I will either lay myself on the beach or hang my head out a window and once again stare into paradise…
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