Blogs from North America - page 8118

Playa Del Carmen & Cozumel, Mexico. Another day long journey on Monday, we left Caye Caulker (queue weeping incoherently) on the 8:30am speed boat to to Belize City on the coastline, caught a nice aircon bus from there to the Mexican-Belize border town called Chetumal (4hrs), crossed the border to Playa Del Carmen on the Mexican coast (4 hrs), then a taxi to the hotel which made it around 8pm. The hotel was kinda funky, the entrance was built into a tree, the whole place was quite jungle-esque. Playa Del Carmen is....well....America really! It is a Mexican town on steroids due to the American cruise ships docking here, dumping off waddling, fat Americans weighed down with all their dollars. All the shops are super swanky: diamonds, designer and the lazy Americans just pay USD wherever ... read more

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I must say the Yucatan region has more ancient ruins than the UK has branches of Tescos. It’s been parched during the last 83 days that we have been in Mexico, suddenly it rained hard. When the rain cleared and the sun scorched its way through the clouds like a tongue through candy floss all the pesky microscopic bugs came out and smothered my sodden skin, causing inescapable irritable itchy, scratchy. I visited a real Mayan Shaman. He did not live within a hidden mountain/jungle retreat, but conveniently his healing office was right next door to our hotel called Copal Mayan spa, this man was the only currency worth every damn penny of his $90usd bill. Daniel Poole Peach looked very much like a solid, kind, Mayan Burt Reynolds. He asked me how I was. I ... read more

So I just re-activated this account from last summer. I'm leaving on the 13th of June for Limpopo, South Africa...be back August 5th. If you'd like to hear about any adventures I may have stay subscribed...if you want nothing to do with this little trip...shoot me an email/message and I'll take your name off the subscriber list....thanks.... read more

Today's trip was after 5 hours of hard work this morning, in which I made pretty good progress on the presentation with the Powerpoint chart you saw in the last installment. So, walked out into the looooong corridor outside my room, got into the car, and started driving.... One of the things definitely to remember about the drive from SLC to Park City is the really big outlet center on the way. Then drove some more, got to Park City, and sat on a wonder ful deck at the base of the ski area to have lunch. Got ice cream, and then walked up and down Main Street, which is pretty much nothing more than a bunch of trendy restaurants and art galleries. Food for the physical and spiritual, I suppose. Lots of motorcycles parked ... read more