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It was a nice day for a White Wedding

Posted in Beach, Life in Mexico, friends, tagged , , on August 5, 2008 | 11 Comments »

One of the hallmarks of my job in the tourist industry is that I meet A LOT of people. Although generally I am a curmudgeonly misanthrope, over the last four years I’ve been lucky enough to have met some really cool people.
I met A’ndrea several years ago and found her to be a down-to-earth, gorgeous, [...]

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Wafer-Thin Tomatoes, Ladyparts, Good Friends, and Cats on High Fences

Posted in Beach, Life in Mexico, friends, tagged , , , , on March 7, 2008 | 24 Comments »

Last week our old friends, Dan and Susan, flew in at the last minute from Chicago. They stayed most of the week in Puerto Aventuras, but made it to Playa for 2 nights at the end of their stay (they did what a lot of desperate people who live in cold climates do, which [...]

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Life Doesn’t Suck

Posted in Beach, Life in Mexico, Things I love, tagged , , , , , , on January 29, 2008 | 29 Comments »

High Season in Playa del Carmen has proved to be pretty rough so far, and I’ve been going through some tough personal issues, so we took a few days to head down to Tulum for some rest.  Peace and quiet is exactly what I found.
Our friend, Irena, hooked us up with a guy named Yuri [...]

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Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone

Posted in Beach, Life in Mexico, Things I love, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on January 24, 2008 | 18 Comments »

Let me preface this by saying that I have only a few friends, and even fewer from my “old life” in Chicago. At this point, I’ve been here so long that, understandably, most of those with whom I was extremely close in the “old country” have moved on. It’s human nature and totally [...]

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New Year’s Day on Isla Mujeres

Posted in Beach, tagged , , , , on January 2, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Yesterday Michael and I mercifully had the day off, so we went to Isla Mujeres with a couple of our friends. Our friends, Beth and Leslie, are in town from Chicago (our hometown) and staying at JW Marriott in the Cancun Hotel Zone. Beth and Leslie took the ferry from the HZ (taxi [...]

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