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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Tumaco: From Out of the Flood
Canyon de Chelly: Where Canyons Collide
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