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No Name Cafe - Marketing Strategy
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After hurricane Wilma when the Barracuda Hotel that I have been staying at for 25 years was recently rebuilt, they added a pool and bar called the No Name Cafe. I at first scorned this place due to the noise and all the people who took over the hotel bea
Date: 07/22/2011
Size: 25 items
Views: 959
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Return to Celestun
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Making good on my 5 year long promise to attend friend Juan Guzman's daughter, Alejandria's, Quienceanara this weekend, I hop aboard a cheap flight to Cancun where I grab the day long string of buses to reach the remote fishing village of Celestun. I nee
Date: 07/19/2011
Size: 151 items
Views: 1155
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Return to Cozumel
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The short jaunt around the Yucatan from Holbox to Cozumel requires a bus milk run to Cancun, lunch, a bus to Playa Del Carmen, 2 hour wait for the ferry and arrival in Cozumel. If you are familiar with the latter, see in amazement how the two former smal
Date: 03/07/2011
Size: 32 items
Views: 1454
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Holbox island, Quintanna Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
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Isla Holbox is a little known island off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Reminding me a bit of Utila, Honduras, golf carts are the main transportation but the beautiful beach is the main attraction. The city is smaller than Celest
Date: 03/04/2010
Size: 94 items
Views: 1077
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Bus ride - Cancun to Holbox
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Another in my "Google-cam" series, primarily for those who look out the bus window instead of reading, watching TV or sleeping. An excellent insight to the sparse habitation and architecture seen along this hot, dry and tope-laden 90 kilometer
Date: 03/03/2010
Size: 62 items
Views: 935
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Celestun - Small Fishing Village - Western Yucatan
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One of the last of the get away from it all small fishing villages on the Gulf coast is Celestun. About 6,000 people live in this authentic little town, a 3 hour drive west of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and light years back in time from Cancun.
Date: 02/28/2010
Size: 69 items
Views: 1201
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Campeche - Gulf Coastal City on Yucatan Peninsula
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As Mexico's largest northern port city on the Yucatan Peninsula, Campeche tries hard to stick to its Colonial roots. Though it seems more modern and slightly less authentic than the central mountainous silver mine cities, it still has its charm.
Date: 02/26/2010
Size: 56 items
Views: 896
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Goodbye to San Cristobal de las Casas
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I reluctantly say goodbye to host Cisco Dietz as he heads for a much deserved beach vacation. I become B&B manager for a week, finishing out both mine and guests Snooky and Bettina for the week while the owner is on vacation. It is both a happy day
Date: 02/26/2010
Size: 42 items
Views: 922
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Villahermosa
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Villahermosa makes an excellent overnight stop on the way to Campeche. This city is in many ways as cosmopolitan as Puebla, not particularly catering to tourists but with scores of uptown shops including out of the ordinary salsa dress shops and more sho
Date: 02/25/2010
Size: 69 items
Views: 1035
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Road to Palanque
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Photos out a bus window, for those interested in the topographical changes as one travels the 6 hour journey from San Cristobal de las Casas to Palenque and on to Villahermosa.
Date: 02/24/2010
Size: 49 items
Views: 886
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Chamula Carnival, Chiapas, Mexico
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All photos in this album courtesy of friend Snooky Robins & Bettina. With penalties for taking photos here quoted as possible $100 fine, jail time and loss of camera a threat, I put my camera away; however my new friend and ex-industrial espionage ph
Date: 02/18/2010
Size: 106 items
Views: 2749
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Road Trip to Teopisca, Chiapas
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Just 20KM SE of San Cristobal lies a very small community of Teopisca. Here we would gather wild orchids off fallen timber in the forests lining the mountains nearby this city. On the route we would encounter Zapatistas and a car stuck on the edge of a
Date: 02/02/2010
Size: 50 items
Views: 1016
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