Blogs from Yucatán, Mexico, North America - page 7

You might think that a 15 passenger van would have plenty of space for us and the dogs, but once we loaded everything in the world that we decided to keep...quarters got pretty cramped. Most of what we are bringing back was loaded into the back of the van behind piece of plywood to keep the dogs from getting into it. The rest is under seats and bunjee'd into corners. When we packed, I put all the big things in place while Jill came back through and pushed the small stuff into all the open spaces. God help us if The Federales or US Border Patrol deside to search the van. They wouldn't find anything but tools, underwear and dogs toys...but it would take an hour or more to put it all back in place.... read more

Living in their mad homicidal world beneath the soil munching devouring consuming, antennae probing and strobing the multi-legged strangers weed and seed and feed beyond our sight. They are fellow travelers with you and I, these aliens. (Contemplating Insects, Author Unknown) ...or, it's just a dozen bugs having a meeting.... read more

I've driven back into town to run some last errands before we leave next week. It was a long trip. I left at 8:30am and arrived at the shop at 9:45am. The first two miles after leaving the hacienda took 15 minutes because of the road. We're having heavy duty E class tires put on the van, the others were looking pretty pinched after we loaded it. Yesterday we brought the dogs back to the secured field at the hacienda and this time they managed to avoid falling head first into the frog pond...I'm attaching a few photos of them. As you can see, the hacienda has it's own little train track. Back in the day (when Masul was a working hacienda) a horse would pull carts in and out and around. Our dogs seem to ... read more

Headed south on Mex 261 to Merida. Came across Yaxcopoil Parador Hacienda . This is dated back to the 17th century signifying in Mayan language "the place of the green Almo trees" With 22,000 acres of land in the time of its greatest splender Yaxcopoil was considered was considered one of the most important estates in the Yucatan due to its cattle ranch and plantation. After an hour tour we set off changing to Mex 180 . But again 40 kms to Merida another Military check. Took for ever but got off free. Tonight in a rather rough RV Park Rainbow. Today we did a tour of the historic downtown. There were three Spanish conquisadors named Franciscio de Montejo el Adelantado ( The lieutenant) Fransccio de Montejo y Leon el Mozo (His son) and Francisco de ... read more

Third day on the boat and second sea day on our way to Roatan, Honduras. I slept in today and skipped breakfast. I got ready and then walked around the ship a little exploring. The ship is so big and I really have not seen all of it yet. I tried to get some reading done on the pool deck but it was SO LOUD with all of the music. I wound up going down to the promenade deck and read for while. I started getting hungry so I went back to my room and ordered some room service. I ordered a philly cheese steak sandwich and it was awful. I definitely do not recommend room service on a cruise ship. I started watching a movie and then fell asleep for a couple of hours. For ... read more