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...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
DAY 4: FROM VILLAHERMOSA TO PALENQUE After three long days and more than 1,200 miles of driving, we’d made it from Laredo, on the border with Texas, all the way to Villahermosa, in the Mexican State of Tabasco. We stayed the night there, but we didn’t...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
In October of 2015, shortly after I returned from my Alaska RoadTrip, my old friend Michael and I packed up my Jeep and drove it to the Yucatan. I’d wanted to see the Mayan ruins for as long as I could remember, but considering all the negative reports I’d...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the third and final page of a longer article about the Road to Spider Rock. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 On our first day at Canyon de Chelly, we hiked the White House Trail from...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the second page of a longer article about the Road to Spider Rock. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 When you see Spider Rock from above, you’re looking down on the canyon, and...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
The twin pillars of Spider Rock were left behind, like a pair of stubborn hold-outs, when everything else around them slowly weathered away. Technically, they are the last remnant of the geological process that created this part of Canyon de Chelly, but that’s...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 A couple of miles further along, the floor of the canyon widened significantly,...
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