… literally – when you sit up at 2:00 am, bleary-eyed with your wide-awake, jet-lagged 3 year old playing some stupid game or another and you wonder “why exactly am […]
Sabbatical Blog – The Traveling Tool Kid
Souvenirs
I had almost 4 weeks to buy myself and others some souvenirs. But alas, I didn’t. I didn’t feel like a souvenir buying tourist. We had 4 weeks here, our […]
Guest Blog: Sabbaticalhomes.com helping Scholars find a temporary home
Founded in 2000, SabbaticalHomes.com has been helping academic travelers find housing all around the world for nearly twenty years. When she decided to create this site, Nadege Conger was expecting […]
Montezuma’s revenge
This is going to be short! Montezuma’s revenge (Wiki: Montezuma’s Revenge is the colloquial term for any cases of traveler’s diarrhea or other sicknesses contracted by tourists visiting Mexico) has finally […]
Chitzen Itza, Detours and a Deluge
Yesterday morning we set out on our trip to Chitzen Itza, the world famous Mayan pyramids and temples and one of the 7 new Wonders of the World. The trip […]
Progreso
Max is finally getting the hang of what it means to behave like a proper tourist boy on the beach. We took the bus to Progreso today for our second […]
The North Pole is called Liverpool
Today we went to the North Pole. At least I think that’s what it was: it was cold, white and had ice but confusingly went by the name “Liverpool”. We […]
Rain in Merida
We had a good old-fashioned thunderstorm today: torrential rain, lightning flashes, thunder and more rain. It was actually quite cool – haven’t been in one in many years and as […]
Shopping Experience and More tidbits
This was another uneventful day, no new adventures to be had as Max was back to school today and we took it easy. As usual my good catholic upbringing got […]
Enough Peacock Feathers Already
This is going to be a tough one. We didn’t do a lot today so not much exciting to report and it is Super-Tuesday in the US and so I […]