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Sometimes, Just Sometimes you go against your instincts and…..
We had a very easy flight to Mexico and immigration and boarder control in the tourist region of the Yucatan and the ease of which it operates is academic. Our return home however, would be much different. We flew to Mexico on Jet blue and it was comfortable and prompt and it lulled me into a sense of comfort that I should have known my old nemesis Spirit Airlines would destroy.… continue reading Read More
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Playa Centro and Taqueria Erika
After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away. We slowly got ourselves up, in no hurry to do anything, as all of our scheduled events had been fulfilled.… continue reading Read More
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Oh, how I go back to the place I was first lost.
Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely foreign from my own, the first time I walked the streets of a city with 32 million inhabitants where the majority were impoverished.… continue reading Read More
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The day she’s been waiting for.
I awoke on this our second morning and I knew this was the day. Our entire trip began with one simple request many months ago. I asked Maggie sometime last year what she wanted her big trip to be for the summer.… continue reading Read More
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I awoke just before dawn and stepped outside to see our small Colonia street begin to wake up. Off the terrace, I could see a woman sweeping the sidewalk in front of her doorway. Another headed off to work. Further up, headlights lit up as a motorbike purred to life and rolled down the otherwise quiet street.… continue reading
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Sharks, Turtles and Iguanas oh my!
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Isla Mujeres – Woman Island
Many years ago, when I was the Chef at Sala in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. I had a bartender who worked for me named Rafael Barragán. We called him Sapo (frog). Because his weathered face and mushy features in his 60’s, gave him this undeniable resemblance to said creature.… continue reading Read More
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