THE NEWS FROM MEXICO was rife with stories of beheadings as the drug war produced narcotraffickers as merciless as Aztec priests. None of this escaped the notice of my friends, who made sure to log their disapproval of my trip in advance in order to tut-tut with impunity over my headless corpse later. My girlfriend…
Category: Mexico
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…
La Ruta Maya – Uxmal
THE CHICKEN BUS TO MERIDA must have stopped at every shack and henhouse in northern Yucatan. It was late afternoon by the time we arrived, and the weekend market was already underway in the main plaza where our hostel was located. There was music, street food, and numerous little stalls crowding the central part of the square…
James Perry 