Scott's Adventures in Mexico
Tulum Signs Health Zone
"Why is Yoga so popular, " I ask? " Tulum", Angelique smiles," is an old hippie colony - it grows out of that. People want to feel good. " There is plenty of feel good here with a huge European presence. In the morning a large group of Europeans sits at...
Fish Tacos Best on Earth
Tulum has two faces. There is the Hotel Zone which is a strip of bars, restaurants, hotels,and retail shops along the main road running along the beach all the way south to a biosphere nature preserve called Sian Kian. Then there is the Mexican town of...
End of the Road Heading back to the U.S.S.A.
Every journey has an end. The Mazatlan aeropuerto is small. U.S. Airways charges twice as much for a ticket as they should and the fact the airplane is only half full going down and three quarter full returning tells volumes about the state of tourism in...
Mexico Mural On the way to the beach
On the way to the beach at the Hotel Playa de Mazatlan, there is a mural painted on a hotel wall by some unknown Mazatlan artist. The characters are easy to recognize. There are homages to traditional lifestyles when women wore non-revealing clothes and...
Lost in Color Hotel Plaza de Mazatlan
In the hotel lobby, each day, this artist/craftsman unfolds two tables. He is dipping his brush into color and applying paint as I watch. When done with one color, he cleans his brush in a glass of water, wipes the residue off with a towel, then switches...
Footprints/Hotel Playa Beach Side by side/Hotel Playa
This is a conundrum. At first glance these are footprints on the beach. At a second glance you discover the footprints are not pointing the same direction. At first thought, I wonder how this happened? Maybe a man with a peg leg twists his right...
Sunrise/Sunset in Mazatlan Following the sun
Some of the grandest moments on a trip to the ocean are when you wake up and when you go to bed. First thing in the morning the sun pushes itself up onto its throne and has its cleaning staff sweep away darkness with stiff brushed brooms. Last thing...
I wuz Here On the beach at Stone Island
One of the first things I come across on this Stone Island beach is a handwritten message scratched in the sand, still hours away from being erased, by the incoming tides. It brings up an old question - "If no one hears a tree falling in the forest, does...
Coconuts and Beach/Stone Island Taking a tour break
Our tour boat docks, by a grouping of mangroves,and we disembark into a thatched eating area where a local family will serve us lunch in a few hours. While they prepare our tour's meal, we are taken for a look at this island's coconut farm, watch Polo...
Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
Jungle Tour Mazatlan Off on an expedition
Back in the day, after school, our tribe would gather around the new black and white television in the family room and watch TV serials. There was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Little Rascals, Gene Autry, the Three Stooges, and Tarzan. One of the...
Hotel Playa Stage Show/Mazatlan Dance revue
Every night, downstairs, the Hotel Playa offers entertainment. It is sometimes a DJ spinning tunes. Sometimes it is a duo of classical guitars. On certain nights you can hear song smiths warbling out popular melodies. This particular evening we get...
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