Mexican Road Trip: Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá

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...

Mexican Road Trip: Merida and the Meridanos

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...

Mexican Road Trip: Mayan Ruins and Waterfalls in the Lacandon Jungle

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...

Mexican Road Trip: Zapatista Road Blocks in Chiapas

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...

Mexican Road Trip: Heading South, from Laredo to Villahermosa

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...

Canyon de Chelly: The Oldest White House

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | 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 UPDATE: SEPTEMBER, 2024:  White House Overlook and Trail to reopen in...

Canyon de Chelly: Riding the Rainbow to the Universe: The Legend of Spider Woman

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

Canyon de Chelly: Riding the Rainbow to the Universe: The Legend of Spider Woman Spider Rock from below, with my black Jeep at lower left for scale.  This is the second page of a longer article about the Road to Spider Rock. If you’d like to begin at the...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 4: The Road to Spider Rock

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | 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...

Canyon de Chelly: Blue Bull and Mummy Cave

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | 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,...

Canyon de Chelly: Standing Cow: A Home Among the Ruins

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the fourth 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 Click Photos to expand images to full screen  After our long, leisurely break, parked by...