My favorite destinations of 2007.
The Yucatán Peninsula. Tacos, Mayan ruins, Topes, Mennonite colonies, pristine beaches.

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten, outside of Berlin.

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 […]

The best thing about travel, besides enjoying the unique cultural and mulleted wonders offered by the location in question, would have to be discovering a new form of music or art. Or snack food. Holland didn’t disappoint, and on Saturday at Waterpop, a large free festival adorned gratuitously with sunflowers and traditional windmill in […]

So, to backtrack, other than the abandoned hospital complex, Berlin was pretty typical travel. I walked many miles, saw the sites to see, took the photos. I did stumble upon a crazy beer festival on Karl Marx Allee, complete with uniformed nuses serving beer to completely *wasted* dudes dancing in silly mock-country mode to “Ring […]

Dude, why didn’t anyone tell me about currywurst? Its like the best hotdog meal ever.
Only have a minute here…in Hamburg now. In Berlin highlight would have been the trip out to Beelitz Heilstätten, the partially abandoned former miltary hospital some 60km outside the city. I had the good fortune to meet some very hospitable Berliners […]