Hell’s Half Acre

If you’re going to Mexico and you’re FARsighted, take my advice and bring about 3000 lenses with you.  Hell, if you’re traveling in the US and you’re FARsighted, take about 2000 lenses with you.  In Guadalajara, our first Mexican Costco experience, I was told it would take 8 days for the lenses to arrive.  We [...]

When we were in Baja, living on the beach, we really thought we’d invented hedonistic living.  Here in Paa Mul, we realize we didn’t know squat about hedonism.  I spent about 15-20 minutes trying to talk the day manager down from 25USD/night to 200 pesos a night and then 250 pesos/night but he would not [...]

Today was a day of murdering butterflies, oppressive heat, our first peek at the Caribbean, once again stealing Internet bandwidth, and hordes of tourists.
Jamie was almost unable to function this morning, after a long night of no breeze and MUCH heat, so while the sweat trickled and ran into rivers, I hooked up the trailer [...]

We were up and out of the Four Hundred Peso Restaurant by 10am and kept the A/C during the entire drive.  Our backpacker/hitchiker friends, Anabel and Marcos (Anabel is from Panama and Marcos is Austrian) kept the kids amazingly entertained and engaged during the drive.  It was a rather short day; only 3 hours of [...]

lYesterday we got the very sad news that Papa and Tata were going to head back to the states and leave us bored and lonely in Palenque.  It was a bit of a shock; we knew that eventually we would split but we just weren’t ready.  We all had gotten very accostomed to being able [...]

While Palenque and the surrounding area is most definately a magical place, it also seems to be a place of parenting challenges for the extrangeros.  I just watched a mother physically, and with much force, remove her son from the pool  She had been ranting at him a few times and finally re-appeared at the [...]

When I think of pyramids, I envision the Egyptian (though I’ve never been there) variety with emmense kilometers of flat desert interspersed with magnificient pyramids.  For some reason, even though we’re in the midst of tropical highlands and lowlands, I was expecting something of the same here in Mexico.  What was hard for me to [...]

sure there is a REASON this place is named "Sweet Water" but it sure ain’t cause it is sweet weather.  Ugh it is hot.  Ugh it is humid.  Ugh we are DYING of the heat.  Ugh Ugh UGH!  On the way out of the Pemex, we saw field after field of sugar cane.  Under [...]

We’re sleeping at a Pemex.  We did that station guys nor the Federale parked next door to the Pemex thought we were in our right minds to want to SLEEP at a PEMEX, they happily gave us space and rest.  It was the best night sleep I’d had in a LONG time.  The difference [...]

I’ve noticed that Racheal and Dan (The Underaged RV’ers – see link to the right) have actually made money with Google ads.  I actually had to look carefully to find the ads.  If I placed ads on the blog, would you click?  Would the ads destroy the site?