FROM PALANQUE WE STARTED NORTH. Up until now we’d been traveling south and west, away from our starting point in Cancun. Now that we’d made a U-turn it started to feel like our trip was winding down. I didn’t like that idea, and maybe that’s part of the reason I didn’t like Campeche. It was…
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La Ruta Maya – Palenque
IT WAS AN EIGHT-HOUR TRIP BY CHICKEN BUS across the rough roads of the Peten to get to our next destination: Palenque, Mexico. It made for a long day, but a relatively uneventful one save for two minor episodes: minor because neither of them realized their potential to become full-blown disasters. The first of these episodes occurred at…
James Perry 