Away We Winnebago

I took a great tour to the Uxmal ruins yesterday. Pronouced by gringos as UH-OX-MAL or OOSH-MAL. This is a truly incredible and beautiful place. I won’t try to describe the details but here’s a link to my photos on Flickr –

We visited Hacienda Sotuta De Peon today – a working henequen plantation. Merida’s success came from the henequen plantations used to make sisal rope and rugs. Henequen is related to the agave plant used to make Tequila. Many of the haciendas around Merida are now abandoned ruins as the market for henequen crashed in the mid […]

Jaime and I are enjoying our stay here in Merida. Merida is the capital of Yucatan and features a well preserved colonial core (called centro). Our Bed and breakfast Casa Santiago is only four blocks from the main plaza so it’s easy to walk and enjoy the sights. The downside is that it’s pretty hot […]

Jaime and I finally jumped ship. Left the boat and Isla Mujeres and are now in Merida at a great B&B. I will post more later but we really like Merida so far and are looking forward to exploring this historic colonial city. We really enjoyed our time on Isla. Hanging out at Playa Norte was great. […]

I’ve been doing some diving the past three days with Coral Scuba Dive Center here in Isla Mujeres. The first two days we did shallow dives on the reefs in front of the island. Easy diving and interesting fish and coral to look at. Nurse shark picture taken by Mark L. on our trip to Cozumel […]

  Manana in Spanish means tomorrow. In Mexico manana always means tomorrow or the next day or the next. Quien sabe? Well… that kind of sums up our plans at this point. We will not be crossing the Gulf with Cpt. Jim back to Texas. Jaime’s inner ear thing is finally calming down and Cpt. […]

Update.We made it to Isla off of Cancun yesterday afternoon around 4pm. We are currently tied up at a marina and have WIFI access and most importantly unlimited hot showers. For those of you that read my last post and were concerned about an outbreak of cannibalism on the boat, the good news is that […]

We’ve been getting hit by squalls lately generated by tropical waves (low pressure systems) with 35 knot winds and torrential rains. The good news is that we filled our water tank with fresh rainwater. The bad news is that we have some cabin fever setting in and I’m wondering when we will all go mad […]

Weather is still here so I ended up doing some diving with Frenchie’s in Caye Caulker. We did two dives on the South pass of the reef about 80 feet max. The dive master was entertaining and they seemed like a good operation so I signed on for a trip to the Blue Hole the […]

We left Caye Caulker on 6/18 and headed to Ambergris Caye. When we arrived at AC in the afternoon we found La Isla Bonita not so much Bonita as bonkers. The anchorage was bombarded by jet skis, dive boats, and water taxis coming and going at full throttle. When did they get jet skis??? Landing […]