December 2020 Swimming with and amongst pelicans is one of the highlights of our stay here, in Akumal. We encounter turtles and stingray in the ocean too but it is the pelicans that steal the show! Akumal is a very…
Entering Quintana Roo…
(December 2020) We are heading to our pre booked home exchange which awaits us in the Yucatan state of Quintana Roo. As we look at the map we see that the infamous Tulum is en route. Ben is inclined to…
Mayan Basketball origins. Who knew?
December 2020 If you are a basketball fan, avert your eyes. You may not be able to handle the truth. An American ethno-centric view of history would claim basketball as a quintessential U.S. invention and research on the history of…
Mellow in Yellow ~ Izamal, Yucatan.
December 2020 While in Merida, we read about a nearby city, that is allegedly ALL yellow. Every building! We gotta see that! About an hour’s drive from Merida, in the Yucatan peninsula, Izamal is one of the oldest Mayan towns…
Meanderings in Merida, Mexico
December 2020 We leave small and charming Campeche for the third leg of our ten week road trip, to the capital and largest city in the Yucatan State, Merida. Late in the 19th Century, the area surrounding Merida prospered from…
The Colors of Campeche
Swashbuckling buccaneers. From about 1540, when the expanding Spanish empire reached the shores of Mexico, Campeche became a trading port. Built at the site of an important Mayan town, Campeche soon became as vibrant a port along the Spanish colonial…
5 Surprises as we kick off our road trip in Southern Mexico
We ponder the options that lure us onward. After 3 weeks in Oaxaca City, we are very ready to do some adventuring. Time to kick off our road trip. We are still neophytes in Mexico, having spent all of our…
Into the Oaxacan Landscape
We are determined to see what lies yonder, to explore the Oaxacan countryside, beyond the busy streets of the Oaxaca City neighborhood of Jalatlaco, where we have spent the past 3 weeks. When we travel on our own, we mostly…