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escape to the beach

We took a short break from the city and came over to the coast.
I can’t really say it is cooler here but there is a sea breeze and the bedrooms have AC.
It is cooler when you are on the beach or in the breeze but it is about the same when you are a short [...]

sultry beach

I finally drove off around 5pm on Friday, just in time to drive towards a wall of black with bolts slicing through it.  Somehow though, I missed the storm.  It drizzled most of the way across the peninsula and I could see where it had previously rained heavily in places, but not on me.  That’s [...]

Akumal’s 50th Anniversary

Fifty years ago, before there were roads along the Quintana Roo coast, a wealthy Mexican diver bought miles of coastline from a coconut plantation and founded a small dive resort on the pristine bay. He first found this string of bays lined with drooping coconut palms and sugar white sand because of the wreck [...]

Caribbean Moonbeams

We’re back at the beach for a few days. It was a nice drive over, it rained a little around Valladolid and then there was mist rising off the road in the moonlight.
The moon over the water is hypnotic. It was late when we got here as we brought a friend over and [...]