Oh, Mérida, what are you going to do as you grow? You are based on the ruins of a Mayan city, and you have a rich cultural heritage but you are growing and sprawling beyond your city limits without increasing density. The sprawl affects your quality of life and chokes local streets. Buses run through tight corridors with carcinogenic black smoke. Sidewalks are dangerously narrow offering no pedestrian refuge when scaffolding is up (and there is plenty of scaffolding)…
Read MoreAdded a map of places I've been
I've added a map of all of the places I've been in Mexico so far! I will continue to update this as I update my blog. Check it out here.
Letters To My Teachers - Mr. Sergeant
I tried calling my junior high school, I.S. 72, from Isla Holbox to see if they had a way for me to contact my past teachers who influenced me to write them thank you letters. Unsurprisingly, considering I did not really have a good experience in junior high school and the administration was really fucked up, they said "no". They do not have a way for former students to contact teachers. So, instead of making a project out of this and trying to find these people, I will write letters to them on my blog and send the good karma to the world. Here is the first one…
Read MoreIsla Holbox
A somewhat remote island exists north of Cancun. Isla Mujeres, the significantly developed and touristic utopia, this is not. Holbox, pronounced “hole-bosh”, has roads of sand only. It appears dirt-like but alas it is sand. There are no cars, as advertised, but the “golf carts” are damn powerful and many people ride large ATVs which might as well be pick up trucks. This ain’t no Fire Island Pines, kids…
Read MoreGetting Better on week 3
Sometimes I think I'm getting better, even though I'm only on my third week of travel. I've let go of a lot in the past month. I accept the loss of my job and the decision to let go of my apartment and put all of my belongs in a 100 sq ft storage unit. I've created a new reality for myself. At the same time, I think it is really premature to say that after only two weeks of traveling, that I've gotten significantly better. What I can say definitively is that I feel some layers of the onion sort of peeling away and I also am getting a much better sense at what elements of my personality are just really what they are: me…
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