Postmarked from the sun-drenched island of Cozumel on a Saturday in early March 1979, this chrome-era card shows horse-drawn calandrias parked along the palm-fringed malecón, their passengers shaded by wide hat brims as sailboats bob at the landing dock behind pink hibiscus hedges — a scene of languid Caribbean perfection. The writers, Bob and Char, were clearly seasoned travelers: they'd bicycled and swum their way across the island, slept in a cheap hotel, and were heading back to the mainland that very afternoon. "This is a neat place," Char writes to a recipient in Fairport, New York, "but Cancun was better. Water & beaches here are OK. Lots of tourists here hence it's very Americanized. Sure great to get on a bicycle & get out & do something." A delightful time-capsule message from an era when Cozumel was still newly discovered by mass tourism, written with candid traveler's wit. Printed by Litográfica Turmex, S.A., Mexico City; photo by J. Kipi Turok.