Sunday, 26 September 2004 | Simultaneous

[Cozumel, Mexico]

I bought an iPod before leaving for Mexico, primarily so that I could store my digital photos on its hard drive. The other reason, of course, was for music, but it was the former that determined the timing of the purchase. For the week that I've had it, I've appreciated having hundreds of songs I like in my pocket, but it wasn't until today that I fell in love, incidentally around the same time that I fell in love with mopeds and the deserted side of Carribean islands. I wish I could give you at least a few seconds of my trip around the island, so you could know what it was like first-hand. It was dumbly satisfying in the way that ice cream tastes good and I have no idea how to describe it.