Travels with Valerie

We’ll get to Chichen Itza in a second. While we drove around today, Daniel and I had a chance to cover a lot of topics and I learned a lot but the key thing Daniel helped me understand is that, in a country where I cannot drink the water and cannot use the ice, when […]

The world is made up of two types of people: people who will help me get into cenotes and people who try to limit my time in cenotes. Ron, who has shown a pattern of blasphemous and nearly unforgivable behavior over the years, is starting to wear my patience thin. Today, for example, when Daniel […]

I have so much to tell you but I want to start with the cenotes. A cenote is a pit that results from the collapse of the limestone bedrock that covers the Yucatan peninsula. There are more than 20,000 cenotes in the Yucatan state and now that I’ve been to one, I aim to see […]

We have arrived in Valladolid! This is the view from our hotel room at El Meson del Marques, where we booked their Grand Suite for $150 a night. The room is a large, tiled-floor affair with about 500 square feet of balcony, overlooking the main square and the church. I was pretty awestruck until I […]