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 […]
The shopping never ends
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 […]
Cenote defector threatens a purchase
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 […]
Two cenotes, one ancient city, and 5 million mosquitos
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 […]
