Endless Odyssey
This is how people die.
During our Christmas visit to the Mayan Riviera, in addition to seeing Tulum, experiencing local restaurants, and having beach time, we also planned to see the natural beauty of the cenotes, which are clear-water sinkholes, as well as to snorkel the Great Mesoamerican Reef. Some of the cenotes are very popular and crowded, but we…
During our Christmas visit to the Mayan Riviera, in addition to seeing Tulum, experiencing local restaurants, and having beach time, we also planned to see the natural beauty of the cenotes, which are clear-water sinkholes, as well as to snorkel the Great Mesoamerican Reef. Some of the cenotes are very popular and crowded, but we…
On December 27th, our second full day at Puerto Morelos, a group of 13 of us planned to go to the Mayan ruins at Tulum, and then the whole family, all 28 of us, was going on a four hour Catamaran cruise. Tulum is notoriously crowded after 10am, but in order to get there before…
On Christmas day, we headed to Puerto Morelos. Anne and Carl were celebrating of their 80th birthdays and 35th wedding anniversary by generously flying everyone on that side of the family to the Cancun area in Mexico to stay at a resort in Puerto Morelos. Laura, McKenna and I had arrived in Mexico a few…
Over winter break, our Christmas season trip to Isla Mujeres continued, as Laura, McKenna, and I headed north from Punta Sur to the opposite end of the island at Playa Norte. Playa Norte Playa Norte and the area around it is the most popular part of the island, by far the most touristy. There are…
Over winter break, we were traveling south for a celebration in Mexico with Laura’s Mom’s side of the family. In celebration of their 80th birthdays, Laura’s aunt and uncle, Anne and Carl, were generously flying everyone on that side of the family to the Cancun area in Mexico, and they were paying for us to…
On October 3rd, we returned to our Smokies house from our Gatlinburg excursion and Charlies Bunion hike early enough to spend some time in our rental home. As I noted on our first day there, the house had plenty of space but an odd spacing of restrooms that we had not noticed when going through…
On October 1st, I joined Jerry, Jim and Dave for a trip south to the area near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a long weekend. Although this national park is the most popular in the country and relatively close to Virginia, somehow I had never visited it. We were meeting the other part…
After our Caseville beach days during the early part of the vacation, on July 29th it was Tournament Tuesday. This year, we had some holdover games and some new games, and, in a break with convention, we did not put the rules in sheet protectors. Fortunately, though, for the lovers of well-protected rules, the Crews…
On July 26th, our Caseville vacation began. Unlike at our earlier vacation near Harbor Springs, where there had been some confusion about check in times, the proprietor of the Caseville cottages we were staying at, Mrs. Crews, left nothing to chance about the check-in time at her place. There was also no ambiguity about any…
