Greenbacks: Don't leave home without them
As I walked through the hotel lobby, the weight of the three hundred $100 bills sewn to the waist band of my Jockey shorts pulled my underpants down over my small rear. The money was hanging at my knee...
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Rolfe Schell at the gates of Tulum
"The great landscapes all belong to a tomorrow we have already lived."
Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego
I collect old books. There's no more fun for me than to forage through secondh...
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Cenote daydreams, Yucatan, Mexico
Recollections of stunning ruins, fantastic snorkelling,
exquisite food and friendly people.
The Yucatan is unlike any other region of Mexico. It has unique terrain, climate, cuisine and peop...
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Henequen and its role in the Yucatan's shifting fortunes
The Maya produced fibre from the henequen plant since the time of Christ.
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Merida: fiery mistress, seductive city
Merida is a most un-Mexican city. It feels more European; more reserved in a middle class sort of way.
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The Books Of Chilam Balam and the Trojan War Of Yucatan
In writing of the Persian Wars, Herodotus, our earliest Greek historian of note, declared that his purpose in writing of the attempts by the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes to invade Greece was to ensu...
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Diving in Cancun
Unlike Cozumel with its abundance of dive shops, Cancun is home to only ten. But, as I discovered, this city has much to offer a diver looking for a unique diving experience.
Located twelve miles from...
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The Yucatan peninsula links
All regions in Mexico differ from each other, but some are profoundly different. The Yucatan Peninsula is one of the continent's newest territories, emerging from the sea roughly 60 million years ago a...
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Living in Timucuy, Yucatan: birth, death and some in-between
The Setting
Curanderismo
The Inhabitants
The Physical and Psychological
Compadrazco
The Beginning
Love Is In the Air
"I Do"
The End of the Game
Works Cited
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Exploring the Yucatan, A Traveler's Anthology
Exploring the Yucatan - A Traveler's Anthology
By Richard D. Perry.
A Review
Indispensable for anyone heading for the Mayan world of the Yucatan and equally interesting for those w...
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Merida - the white city of the Yucatan
MERIDA'S HISTORY
SIGHTS TO SEE
SHOPPING
DINING
The early inhabitants of Merida "discovered" a plant that had ...
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The Yucatan Express, a cruise ferry service
Ed. This article applies to the Spring 2003 schedule.
The Yucatan Express, a cruise ferry service, has begun twice weekly service between Tampa, Florida, and the Yucatan ports of Progresso and Puerto ...
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Where the Sky is Born: Living in the Land of the Maya by Jeanine Lee Kitchel
This is the story about Jeanine Lee Kitchel and her husband, Paul, who made their first trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in 1985 and fell in love instantly with the place. They had visited various parts of Mexico before that and were quite taken with the country. But the Yucatan beaches were of a different order. It seems that almost from the very start they determined that they would like to build a house and live there.
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Six books by Karen Witynski and Joe Carr
These six wonderful books hit a real soft spot because I'm an ardent admirer of Mexican creativity as it exhibits itself so lavishly in art, architecture, the design of everyday objects and the bold approach to color. And I particularly enjoy good photographic books, which these essentially are.
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Atticus: A Novel by Ron Hansen
Atticus Cody is a 67 year old Colorado rancher. He’s a very successful straight-shooting kind of guy. He has a son, Scott, who is a painter, evidently talented. He has gone to Mexico and is out of touch with his father. Atticus cares: Scott doesn’t seem to be concerned. When the story opens, Atticus has learned about Scott’s death, by suicide, in a place called Resurrección, near Cancun. Atticus goes to Resurrección to pick up his son’s body and return it to Colorado. There he meets up with the cast of characters who knew Scott, most of whom are, at best, hippies and bohemians, at worst, drifters and fugitives.
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Mexicasa : The Enchanting Inns and Haciendas of Mexico by Gina Hyams and Melba Levick (coffee table book)
Gina Hyams and Melba Levick have created a wonderful compilation of photographs of twenty-one of Mexico's most spectacular and beautiful inns and bed and breakfast establishments. This one is a real winner.
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The Maya civilization, cities of the Maya
The material splendor of the Maya culture is appreciated, more than in any other field, in the architecture and ornamentation of their cities. These city-states were the center of power for the king-pr...
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Puerto Morelos, A Yucatan Paradise
Located just 20 minutes south of Cancun on the Riviera Maya, Puerto Morelos is a haven of peace and solitude. It is possibly the last vestige of an authentic, small fishing village on the entire Caribb...
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Did you know? A plastic island is constructed in Mexico
An entire island has been constructed, not by Bob the Builder, but by Richie the Recycler!
Amazing but true: off the coast of Quintana Roo, Richie Sowa has painstakingly constructed an entire island,...
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Did you know? Mayan architects built world's oldest sound recordings
The Pyramid of Kukulkan, Chichen Itza
Photo by Tony Burton
Modern sound recordings usually involve tiny disks which can hold dozens of tracks, specially designed to be easily portable an...
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Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort
Mexican kapok trees once helped the U.S. war effort.
During the Mexican dry season, a peculiar and very distinctive leafless tree often attracts attention because it appears to have large balls of flu...
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Nature's Artist: Alan Vazquez
"The topics that I address in my artwork are an SOS to protect our scarce natural resources of today."
"Nature is art," says 30-year-old artist Alan Vázquez. "You can find colors in the flowers and t...
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The Art Of Peace
Peace manifests itself through artistic expression in Cancun's "Day Out of Time" celebration.
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"Contact with nature has always been my primary inspiration. The energy that you receive is powerful, and at the same time, peaceful."
When Miguel Angel Martínez attended a photogr...
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Cancun's Cultural Oasis: La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano
Depicting death in situations of the living is an artistic tradition for which Mexico is renowned.
Tucked away between the towering hotels of Cancun's sparkling shores is a cultural treasu...
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