Dan and Berni have a dog named Ray who loves to fetch. In the evening, we went to a birthday party of a friend of Dan’s. He built this incredible house on a hill with beautiful views. Here are some pictures from the party. The next day, Berni and I took a nice walk along… Read More más de Mazatlán

On Friday, Berni and I said goodbye to the Yucatán Peninsula and flew to Mazatlan. Berni and Dan come down here for about six months of the year. They have a nice two bedroom apartment in the historic part of town. Their apartment is on the second floor. Berni took me up onto the roof.… Read More Mazatlan

Our main activity for the day was to take a three hour cruise around the lagoon which included two stops for swimming. The tour group offered both sail boats or pontoon boats. We chose the latter because of comfort. Our guide was a delightful 22 year old who left home at the age of 15… Read More Last day on the Yucatan Peninsula

Our Airbnb in Bacalar has a porch and then a beautiful deck upstairs. We have been eating breakfast and lunch on the deck. Our morning adventure was to go to Los Rapidos which is located on a stream that feeds the Bacalar lagoon. The current is moving but not very swiftly so you can jump… Read More First Full Day in Bacalar

We got up early to pack up and leave Huay-Pix because we had an appointment to go snorkeling in Mahahual. A few kilometers from the beach on Mahahual there were some major cruise ships. One of them was supposed to be the largest cruise ship in the world. Fortunately, the cruise lines took the passengers… Read More Our day at Mahahual

We spent our whole day at our little casita. We had two paddle boards for our use. Berni spent quite a bit of time on hers having never really done it before. She did great. I actually stood up on the paddleboard and stayed standing for quite some time for me. I felt this was… Read More Our Day in Paradise

Looks like the Internet is working better. We think there might’ve been too many users on it last night that slowed it down. So I’m going to attempt to post Before leaving Akumal, I took some pictures of the flowers in our driveway. We drove from Akumal to Huay-Pix. It took us about four hours,… Read More Traveling to Huay-Pix

The place I am staying at has very slow Internet. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get any posts done in the next few days. But here’s a picture I took right from my bed.

We are actually staying in a condominium unit about 3 km from Akumal. The complex has free access to the Yal-Ku cenote and lagoon. That is where we’ve been snorkeling the last few days and you’ve seen all the fish pictures I’ve taken. Before I discuss the activities of the day, I took a picture… Read More Second day in Akumal