by Richard Quinn | May 12, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
DAY 15: Escárcega to Edzná, First House of the Itzás Escárcega is a small city of about 30,000, located at the junction of two Federal highways and a railroad. Very few tourists pass through the place, and those that do are mostly in a hurry, on their way to somewhere...
by Richard Quinn | Apr 16, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
DAY 13: All Roads Lead to COBÁ! On the 13th day of our road trip, we spent the morning making a follow-up visit to the Mayan ruins at Tulum. (See my previous post: Mexican Road Trip: Cancun, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya). As for the afternoon, our plan called for a...
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...
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