Okay, so I’m back from Cancun and I had a great time. The all-inclusive vacations are the way to go. You sit back by the pool and short Mexicans keep bringing you island cocktails as you listen to the waves roll against the beach just a stone’s throw away.
The photo on the left was the view from our hotel room. Pretty rough, huh? It was just a little different from the view we had in our Siberian living quarters. We stayed at a beautiful place on the main hotel strip.
Now I must say that on the news I hear about calamities that come and go and they happen wherever and as long as they’re not happening to me then my mind does not commit them to memory (except maybe for the Indonesia tsunami or something like that). Well, Hurricane Wilma from October 2005 had long since left my memory… but upon landing in Cancun my memory had to be jogged. The place was really a mess. Not everything, but anything off the beaten trail had serious hurricane damage. Entire stretches of swamp forest were ripped apart and mangroves were strewn about. Several of the resorts along the main strip where we were staying were still shutdown from the storm. As we walked along the beach we could see large construction teams working on the vacant resorts.
I’ll save the topless beaches for the next post.
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Looks like a great time. We were there before the storm, so it’d be interesting to see the changes. Were you able to climb the temple at Chichen Itza? We were able to, but we had heard rumors they were going to stop letting people do that. It was a crazy climb with no rails (obviously) – not something you see in the US.
No, we weren’t allowed on the main structure at Chichen Itza. We heard that people used to be able to go inside but they stopped that for preservation purposes. They might start again at a later date.
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Wow! It looks like you all had a bit of fun! I haven’t made it to Cancun-only Baja. But the geographical scenery in Mexico is gorgeous! It is the other stuff that can get to you. It is trippy how the hurricane damage is still apparent. I know they got hit pretty hard. I see you are in front of Chichen Iza; that sounds so cooooool! Do they do tours and explain what the structures were used for? Did you see any Mayan heiroglyphics or anything? Well, I am sure you are tired. I am amazed that you will be playing a gig so quickly after your return! Do you have online recordings of your music? Okay I have asked enough questions. Your pictures stimulate the imagination. I wish you and Tami a good rest of week:)
Yeah, the tour guide took a group of us all around and covered the sructures purposes and meanigs of the carvings and whatnot. However, he was Mayan by ancestry and dismissed much of the human sacrifice as being “cultural”.
Hopefully after the coffee house I’ll have some video clips to link here. I have some clips from my other band, Hundred Monkey Theory, on my blog here.
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