Category: photography
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Off at 9 this morning. Cold and early-morning fog lingering; we all wrapped well but still a brisk chill in the air. First stop Zinacantán. Clothing and design so different here as compared to yesterday that it’s hard to imagine that the groups have ever met each other, and unlike yesterday’s market, which straggled along…
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Breakfasted and Chip Morris came by at 10 to start our day’s exploration of Mayan Indian villages. Had awakened early with a dreadful sore throat and all the signs of a wicked cold coming on so was hoping not to crash during the day while we were miles from home. We took a taxi to…
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Really enjoying Casa Felipe Flores. Great breakfast at the B&B and then off to meet Chip Morris, the Mayan textile expert with whom we are going to spend tomorrow and Sunday in some outlying Mayan Indian villages. Wanted to get a chance to meet him before we set out tomorrow so that we can get…
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After fighting with phone systems to connect with various credit card companies to report my lost cards, we set out. San Cristobal is a charming, relatively small (pop. about 150,000), colonial city. As an outsider one of its virtues is that it is not the easiest place to access since it requires a flight from…
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An exciting day of adventure today. As usual, up early, packed, breakfasted and checked out by 8:30 as we were meeting our guide, Carol Karasik at the entrance gates to the Palenque ruins. Left our luggage at the hotel and walked to the roadside where we caught a combi, minivan buses that stop wherever flagged…
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Up early and out of the hotel by 8:00. We had pre-arranged a taxi the night before, expecting that the drive to the airport would be as time-consuming as our previous two night’s restaurant drives had been, but we flew to the airport and were there at 8:30 for an 11:30 flight. Not a problem…
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Lazy day today for the most part, and few pictures taken. V’s last conference day and tomorrow we fly to Palenque in Chiapas to begin our week on the road to ruins! Wasn’t keen to pay Four Seasons prices to have laundry done, cheaper to throw everything away and buy a new wardrobe so scrubbed…
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On Sundays until 14:00, one of Mexico City’s main streets, Paseo de La Reforma is closed for vehicular traffic and the roadway is taken over by bike riders, joggers and all forms of human-powered transport. It’s a very wide thoroughfare with a barrier down the middle and bikers and rollerbladers fill the lanes. Where the…
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I think this is our 4’th time in Mexico City over the last 8 or 9 years. I have always liked the city, hectic, scruffy and shining at the same time; 22+ million people spread out over a vast area, very few tall buildings, and for the most part, low to the ground. Traffic is…
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As usual, last day spent running around doing things that could and should have been done in a more relaxed fashion over the course of the last week. Flight left on time but the plane was, to put it mildly, old, tired and well past its prime. Apparently a backup that they throw into service…
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