Who picked Cancun as a Spring Break destination.....in the 1980s?? Right here.?

I did in 1985, and have the pics to prove it. Really.

We didn't want the "South Padre Island" drive. Or Florida "cold water" sensation. So I picked Cancun Mexico. Why? Ronald Reagan just got back from a trip there in the mid 1980's, and the media talked it up as a "resort complex".

So we drove from Wichita to Dallas (only way to get an affordable connection then), and jumped on an Aero-Mexico flight to Cancun. Not only did they not care about if you had the right driver's license back then (or smoked), but the bathrooms at the airport were stone and half open-air, so anyone could see you if they wanted to. Yikes!

We had no idea where we'd stay, so we took the cab driver's advice and stayed at a hovel near downtown. It was only a few bucks to take the taxi for the four of us to get to the beach (we picked the Beach Palace).

Nothing but Germans there. A few Mexican men (in an off-shoot room) that were dead silent, until their soccer team scored, and few hookers. The hookers were so good that I felt slighted that I wasn't approached at first. When my old roommate tried to burst in (through the chain lock), because he was being chased by them, I felt relieved.

When we were on the beach, at the Beach Palace, everything was as new to us as it was to them.

There's more, and it will probably bore most, but it's all very true. I need to get those 1980s pics online, if the wife will do it, and anyone cares.