Peanut Pet Shelter Clean Up Day, Saturday, January 24
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Adventures, Daily Life | No Comments »The Clean Up, which Cathy Todhunter organized, had been scheduled a week earlier, but recent rain storms flooded the Shelter. This day was perfect, warm but not hot and low humidity. Jim went over about noon; my daughter, Dorsche, who ...
Valladolid, on the return to Playa del Carmen
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Adventures | No Comments »I spent time Monday morning meditating and doing yoga on our front deck in the sun and walked the neighborhood photographing more "doorways of Merida." We called the property management company about 10 am to say we were ready to ...
La Feria Yucatán in Xmatkuil
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Adventures | No Comments »Sunday, Nov. 30, was the last day of the month long State Fair a little south of Merida. A public bus on Calle 50 would get us there, but we decided to use Matt and Allan's car. We got lost ...
Craft Show Artists from the Yucatan
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures, Art | No Comments »About a year ago a group of friends, living in Merida and appreciating one of a kind craft work, began searching out native artists from their state of Yucatan. At least the partial result was a craft show Nov. 29 ...
On to the Ruins of Kabah
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures, Fiestas | No Comments »[gallery] Nineteen pot holed kilometers west and north of Labná are the ruins of Kabah with it's incredible Palace of Masks, an entire wall of nearly 300 Chuc-Mool masks that once each held a huge curled up stone nose protruding from ...
The Mayan Ruins of Labná
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures | No Comments »Fourteen kilometers southwest of Lol Tún through the rolling hills of the Puuc region lie the Labná Ruins, much less visited with vegetation growing atop the stuctures. It is believed that 3000 people lived here at one point during the ...
The Caves of Lol Tún
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures | No Comments »[gallery] We drove south of Ticul to Oxkutzcab, then turned southeast on a very narrow and often pot holed road toward Lol Tún and on to Mayan ruins. A guide is required to enter the caves which are over 2 km ...
Road trip to the Pottery town of Ticul
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures, Art | No Comments »Having been a potter for 35 years, clay is always an attraction, so when I heard of the town of Ticul in the state of Yucatan where there is a natural clay deposit I longed to visit. Their huge vessels, ...
Rented house in Merida
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures | No Comments »I have been reading YucatanLiving.com for some time. It is published by some ex-patriots living in Merida weekly with news of the area. It was there I heard of the upcoming craft show of native artists and also where I ...
Visit to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Adventures, Art | No Comments »Jim and I, and our Canadian friend James, decided to take a road trip to Merida during the week of American Thanksgiving. We boarded an ADO bus from Playa del Carmen which went south to Tulum and then northwest, through Valladolid ...