Category: north america
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Calakmul: Ruins, jungles, and bats
It was time to escape. In January I was in the shadow of the second biggest rainforest in the world. Inside of it held ancient ruins from the Mayan people. I spent the week texting with the guide my friends took but he had a private tour and couldn’t include me. He sent me the…
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Tulum: Cenotes and Ceviche
This city is now THE place for Americans. Cancun is a tourists trap from the airport to the beach. Can’t blame them though for building what everyone wants, all you can eat and drink with no sense of a true Mexico. Just 2 hours south you can find ruins, cenotes, and 20 somethings clubbing. My…
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Christmas, COVID, & Cancun
Like most of the world in December 2021 I finally got COVID. After 2 years of dodging it in Australia, it only took me 3 months to contract it in America. Perfect timing as most of America was flying around the country to see their families. I had been taken a PCR or rapid test…
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Hawaii: Maui
So I am skipping Honolulu because honestly it is not worth really writing about. We ate, we drank, we explored. Waikiki feels like Times Square meets a shopping mall. There are beautiful beaches outside on the North Shore and other things to explore but you can google that. What was really incredible was Maui. We…
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Hawaii: Kauai
The Garden Island 100% decide what you are doing before you decide where you are staying. We stayed in Princeville which was convenient for the northern attractions. But after we decided what we wanted to spend our days doing we realized everything was in the south which meant 5am mornings with 2 hour drives. It…
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