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Entries from March 2007

Maya Riviera, Quintana Roo

March 27th, 2007 · 7 Comments

We have a love hate relationship with the Maya Riviera. When we arrived this year we were aghast at the multitudes of RV’s here at PaaMul and were SO GLAD that we hadn’t purchased a lot here. In 2005 we had very seriously considered 3 specific lots but at the very end [...]

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Tags: Family · Mexico

time…tick tock….

March 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments

(whispering to Ellen at 6:45am; some 3 hours earlier than she normally awakes) “no I don’t know when Tata and Papa will be here. Go back to sleep!”
(at 7:30am) “No, Papa and Tata aren’t here. I don’t know when they’ll get here. Go back to sleep.”
(I hear Jamie from the other room [...]

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Tags: Family

Papa and Tata

March 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The kids are saying that today is just like Christmas.  They’ve been on tenderhooks all day long and when the sun finally set they all rejoiced as all the days of waiting are now over and they’ll be seeing their beloved Papa and Tata tomorrow. The hotel here at PaaMul is certainly beautiful on a [...]

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Tags: Family · Mexico

If we’re in PaaMul, this must be typhoid

March 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Well, it can’t be as we have both suffered through it already, but Jamie is sick again and has yet to sample the brilliantly white beaches and turquoise seas that beckon weary travellers to PaaMul. It has changed SO MUCH. We’re also here at the end of high season so there are [...]

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Tags: Mexico

Bakalar, Quintana Roo

March 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Doesn’t that sound like a nice spot for Winnie ther Poo? Back in Laguna Bakalar but this time Jamie is enjoying it without typhoid. Last time we were here he was suffering from yet undiagnosed typhoid and it was, well, very different. Oh and it was SO hot. I remember [...]

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Tags: Mexico

Villahermosa, Tabasco

March 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments

We’re back at one of our favorite balnearios. I’ll update this later; it is the one with the huge bowl. We’re now discussing going to Calakmul en route to Chetumal. I think we have the “ok” from the kids. I’ve been wanting to go here since 2005 and I so hope [...]

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Tags: Mexico

Catemaco, Veracruz

March 1st, 2007 · 6 Comments

Brushes with fame here in Veracruz. Right now we’re camped next to Eric, Sarah and Bruce of Van on the Run fame and a couple days ago, met up with John and Anita of Viva Veracruz. The campground here in Catemaco is, if possible, almost as tranquil as the one at El Carrizal. [...]

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Tags: Kids · Mexico