by Gary | Oct 22, 2017 | adventures, Food, Mexico
This weekend we went to the Cirque du Soleil JOYÁ show for the first time – it was simply fantastic! The theater is at the Vidanta resort, which is only about 15 minutes from our house. We chose the Dinner, Show, and Champagne tickets. We arrived a bit early to...
by Gary | Oct 13, 2017 | adventures, caribbean, Mexico
I was recently invited by some friends to be part of the crew sailing their catamaran from Mexico to Key West. They’re normally based out of Key West, where they do sailing charters. Before Hurricane Irma hit Florida, they escaped Key West, and set sail for Isla...
by Gary | Oct 2, 2017 | adventures, Food, Mexico
We recently went to Xoximilco with a group of friends – it was a blast! Xoximilco is a “floating Mexican fiesta”. You spend the evening on these boats that are poled through a series of canals. There’s dinner, and open bar. It’s basically...
by Gary | Oct 1, 2017 | Technology
Our little blog was recently listed in the Top 100 Expat Blogs and Websites for Expatriates! We’re #62 on the list. Not too shabby considering that we just started this a few months ago. We don’t blog for awards, but it’s still kinda cool to be...
by Gary | Sep 11, 2017 | Food, Mexico
Over the weekend we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary by splurging on a nice dinner at Alux Restaurante in Playa del Carmen. Alux is definitely a “special occasion” type of place. It’s actually an underground cave / dry cenote – very...
by Gary | Aug 18, 2017 | Mexico
On Saturday we drove up to Punta Sam in Cancun to go out on a whale shark tour boat. That area has a bunch of boat operators, and there’s a lot of tourists that are there to also start their tours. We had a great day on the water, the boat dropped us off back...
by Gary | Aug 13, 2017 | adventures, caribbean, Mexico, Puerto Morelos
This weekend we went out swimming with the whale sharks. These things are ah-mazing! They’re huge! The ones we saw were anywhere from 10 to 30 feet. Pics Here’s a few pics from our tour. Click on any of the pics to view full size. Video One of the...
by Elizabeth | Aug 11, 2017 | Mexico, Road Trip, Uncategorized
Yeah – So, remember when Gary wrote that great post about us getting our Mexican driver’s licenses? Yep. That was awesome. I had mine for about a week! And then it was snatched away from me one Saturday morning as I was driving to Cancun (at the end of the...
by Gary | Jul 26, 2017 | Mexico, Puerto Morelos
This week we got our Mexican Driver’s Licenses. Here’s an overview of how it all went down for us. Keep in mind that your experience may be different. Depending on where you go, when you go, what people you deal with, what their mood is, what your mood is,...
by Gary | Jul 20, 2017 | Mexico, Puerto Morelos
We had a fantastic time on Sunday hanging out with a great group of friends. It was an absolutely beautiful day. We started off in Cancun, stopped to do a bit of snorkeling, then headed out to Isla Mujeres, where we anchored at Playa Norte, and floated around for a...
