Our fancy hotel
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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the wors... [read more]
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the wors... [read more] Blog: Cancun - last day
Date: March 1st 2009
We hopped an early bus bound for Cancun, stopping in Playa del Carmen to stroll the busy and touristy 5th avenue for the last time. It doesn't seem so horrible now, as we are accustomed to the vendors and hawkers and just ignore them. My Spanish is better now too, so I feel comfortable looking in stores and telling them I don't want what they have without feeling afraid or intimidated. They rea ... read more
Date: March 1st 2009
We hopped an early bus bound for Cancun, stopping in Playa del Carmen to stroll the busy and touristy 5th avenue for the last time. It doesn't seem so horrible now, as we are accustomed to the vendors and hawkers and just ignore them. My Spanish is better now too, so I feel comfortable looking in stores and telling them I don't want what they have without feeling afraid or intimidated. They rea ... read more
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Dawn has a background in health and research, and works at the provincial government. Steve has a background in electronics engineering, and is retired (but busier than ever!). We were married in 2005. We share a love of early jazz and swing music from the 40's, nature, birds, good food, and each other. We discovered that we both wanted to see more of the world, so we are trying to do more of that (working around the boring real-life kind of stuff like limited vacation time and money!). Steve is a photographer, and Dawn does the writing, and this way we thought we could share our travel adv... full info
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