Here’s my most recent publication, featuring stories that were first posted on this blog. As my friend used to say, “Lots of twists and turns in life and still no end in sight…”
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NEW BOOK: The Visible Sun: Exploring the Ruta Maya
I took a hiatus from writing this blog in order to finish my third book, which is now complete. The title of the new book is The Visible Sun: Exploring the Ruta Maya and it expands on the adventures I relate in this blog concerning the ancient Maya. It’s both a history and a travelogue, with myself and…
La Ruta Maya – Tulum
WHEN WE ARRIVED IN TULUM later that day, we just wanted to find a hostel and a hammock. We found both a short walk from the bus station. Our room was a private thatch-roofed hut on the second floor next to a large balcony that was strung with hammocks from one end to the other. There…
La Ruta Maya – Chichen Itza
WE WERE CLOSING THE CIRCLE NOW. From Merida we would be traveling east in the direction of Cancun, our starting point. We weren’t ready to tie things up just yet though, so we purchased bus tickets to Tulum, eighty miles south of Cancun. We planned on getting off the bus at the halfway point for…
La Ruta Maya – Dzibilchaltun
UP TO THIS POINT in our trip my girlfriend and I had been applying for jobs online. It was an odious chore because it reminded us, in the middle of our vacation, that we had to get back to the mundane task of earning a living. But one morning in Merida the both of us received job…