Back home now. Didn’t do much the last day but find a less “bodied” section of the Playa del Carmen beach and lay there for a while. I caught about 10 minutes of beach sleep, which was good enough. Beach sleep is the most replenishing sleep of all. 1 hour of beach sleep could equal […]

I arrived the morning of my full day Palenque visit surprised to see so many tourists already there. Palenque is just as well traveled as Chichen or Uxmal, no doubt about it. But that doesn’t take away from it. The thatch roof that covers the tomb next to the Temple of Inscriptions…that does take away […]

Made it to Palenque with no trouble at all, after getting directions out of Campeche at the Fuerte de San Miguel, a big fort up on a hill overlooking the Gulf. The one thing about driving here without good spanish, is that it sucks when you ask directions and then can´t understand what they are […]

I have a theory that perhaps the mysterious decline of the Mayan civilization was brought on by an unlikely contender, some sort of early prototype version of Mennonite warriors. I know it sounds crazy, but I keep spotting Amish people here. Correction: Mennonites, because they are driving cars and getting medicine from pharmacies, I assume […]

Up at 6:30am I am, which is a first in I don’t know how long, but no matter how much of a late nighter I may happen to be, I’ve got to get there before the thousands of tour groups I imagine will be arriving mid-morning. My hotel didn’t serve breakfast until 7:30 which was […]

So I escaped to Mexico on a last minute need to use vacation days and soon. The idea is to circle the Yucatan, hitting all the good ruins and taking lots of pictures along the way.
Flew in to Cancun, got in a little rental job, and took off to Chichen Itza (”chichizza”) to see […]