Travels with Valerie

Well, we’re back in Paris! Here’s what I’ve chosen for my first offering. It’s Photographer Ron, back in action with the camera. I just showed this to him and he said It’s a good picture! I really can only conclude that the only obligation Ron feels as he’s taking a picture is to push his […]

I worry that if I tell you all we are leaving for France in the coming weeks, that things will disintegrate into further chaos and I will have misinformed you all. So I think we are leaving for France and I am preparing accordingly. We have a month-long trip sketched out, which Ron still maintains […]

Daniel says the Mayans bathed five times a day and that seems like about the right number. If I am not busy wiping sweat off my face here, I am focused on scratching a mosquito bite. I will not even try to discuss the joy of wearing a face mask when it is 95 and […]

There was no luxuriating in a cenote today and so Daniel made a point of stopping off at the Merida Costco, where there’s a cenote in the middle of the parking lot – almost exactly as scenic as the other cenotes. We went over to the Paseo de Montejo area today. This avenue is a […]