by Moody Blues What mattered to me Was the right to be free Like I’ll be someday I’m waiting for my heart to lead the way The places I’ve seen And the road in between Make me wonder why I’m searching for my dreams up in the sky I heard the call And in the [...]
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Swingset Chain
Gotta love those lyrics… Swingset Chain by Loquat There’s a playground that we used to run on The penny-drop that broke her arm The monkey bars that you fell from The swingset chain that stuck with my tongue It’s thirty below and we’re far gone If you plant yourself here I wouldn’t miss you for [...]
Swimming Holes at Cuzamá
Sun comes out and so do we. Joy and I ventured out to visit ‘cenotes’. Off, by bus, to Cuzamá. Much of the road is one lane, a little tense when trucks or other buses come our way. Once in town and puttering along in a motor powered bike built for three, we are told [...]
Uxmal Revisited
We had a good day back out at Uxmal, a ruin full of stone carvings. Many things I had missed before made it well worth the trouble plus Joy had not been there. Many structures there, seemed to be living spaces. Some rooms I would stick my camera in (dark) and shoot. I could hear [...]
Mayan 2012
Text by: Anabell Castañeda Article found at Yucatan Today Magazine, ‘Editorial’ Dec. 15/Jan 14 2010 – www.yucatantoday.com – a wonderful resource for information on Merida and the Yucatan of Mexico. Today’s Mayas look ahead to December 2012 as a critical point in the history of humanity; and they see time as a variable which has [...]
Mayapan
Joy and I ventured off to Mayapan, a Mayan ruins site southeast of Merida, hoping to find artwork. We had been told this place was full of it. Thirty minute hike across town, through markets and many people, toward a bus that we read would take us there, we realized our adventure was in the [...]