Mexican Road Trip: Cruising the Sierra Madre, from San Cristobal to Oaxaca

by Richard Quinn | Oct 29, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 21:  From: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS To: OAXACA Day 21!   We’d been on the road in Mexico for three very full weeks, and for most of that time, we had no fixed itinerary, and no set schedule. We never planned more than a day or two ahead, so the route that...

Mexican Road Trip: Crossing the Chiapas Highlands, to San Cristobal de las Casas

by Richard Quinn | Aug 30, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 20: A World Class Drive! From: PALENQUE To: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS I’m probably dating myself when I say this, but when I think of the Sierra Madre, the mountain range in Mexico, the image that pops into my mind is all black and white and shades of gray,...

Mexican Road Trip: The Road to Bonampak

by Richard Quinn | Jul 4, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 17: FROM CAMPECHE BACK TO PALENQUE The 17th day of our road trip started out exactly the same as our 16th day: we had breakfast at our hotel, the Hotel del Paseo (near the historic center of old Campeche); then we hit the road. Over the course of the previous...

Mexican Road Trip: Adventures along the Puuc Route

by Richard Quinn | May 31, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 16: Here a Puuc, there a Puuc, everywhere you look, a Puuc! On the 16th day of our road trip, we had breakfast at our hotel, the Hotel del Paseo near the historic center of old Campeche; then we gassed up the Jeep and hit the road. We had a lot of miles to cover,...

Mexican Road Trip: Edzná, and Campeche, Where They Dance La Guaranducha!

by Richard Quinn | May 12, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 15: Escárcega to Edzná, First House of the Itzás Escárcega is a small city of about 30,000, located at the junction of two Federal highways and a railroad. Very few tourists pass through the place, and those that do are mostly in a hurry, on their way to somewhere...

Mexican Road Trip: Circling the Yucatan, from Quintana Roo to Campeche

by Richard Quinn | Apr 16, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 13: All Roads Lead to COBÁ! On the 13th day of our road trip, we spent the morning making a follow-up visit to the Mayan ruins at Tulum. (See my previous post: Mexican Road Trip: Cancun, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya). As for the afternoon, our plan called for a...

Mexican Road Trip: Cancun, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya

by Richard Quinn | Feb 27, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 11: Back on the Road, from Chichén Itzá to Cancun Mexico has always been well known to international travelers for the popular tourist destinations on its Pacific coast, places like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas, but prior to the early...

Mexican Road Trip: Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá

by Richard Quinn | Jan 27, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 9: Uxmal: A Tough Act to Follow Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá? There wasn’t really a competition between these two Mayan cities, it was more of a question that I’d been asking myself. I’d seen plenty of photographs of both, so I knew more or less what to...

Mexican Road Trip: Merida and the Meridanos

by Richard Quinn | Jan 3, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

When our attempt at driving west to San Cristobal de las Casas was thwarted by yet another Zapatista roadblock, our only option was to return to Palenque, where we spent another night with the toucans at the Comfort Inn. It was beginning to feel like we were spinning...

Mexican Road Trip: Mayan Ruins and Waterfalls in the Lacandon Jungle

by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 4: AFTER THE ROADBLOCKS: THE ANCIENT MAYAN CITY OF PALENQUE As a photographer, my favorite subject has always been beautiful landscapes, of the sort that you find in our National Parks, but ruined buildings, especially those that are ancient and iconic, run a very...