by Richard Quinn | Jan 17, 2016 | Travel
The Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a national holiday in Mexico, a tradition that’s so deeply ingrained in the collective psyche of the country that it’s almost a cultural imperative. The actual holiday–the day the banks and government...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 15, 2016 | Mexico, Travel
An expatriate, or “expat”, is someone who has deliberately moved away from their native country for the specific purpose of establishing a new life in a foreign land. I’m not talking about a temporary relocation for work, or a semester abroad for...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 15, 2016 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
Visiting the Spanish Colonial cities of Mexico is almost like traveling back in time. Narrow cobblestone streets wind between buildings, facades, and stately old mansions that date back three hundred years or more. There are beautiful plazas, parks, and soaring...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 6, 2016 | Travel
Note: there is an updated, expanded version of this post available on this site at the following link: The Amazing Mayan Murals of Bonampak Down by the Guatemalan border, in a remote corner of the Mexican state of Chiapas, there’s a small Mayan ruin known as...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 4, 2016 | Archaeology, Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
Most of the Yucatan Peninsula is relentlessly flat, devoid of any geological feature much taller than a tree, but there is an area just inland from Campeche and Merida where the karstic limestone bedrock folds on itself, creating a jumbled range of low mountains known...
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