Tag: playa del carmen
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Return To Valladolid
Six of us were piled in a cab, drinking beers, the hot breeze blowing in our face and Mexican music blaring on the radio. We were driving through the endless jungle as the air freshener swung wildly from the rear view mirror. I was dirty. I was sweaty. I was in heaven. We were lost in…
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Mega’s Going-Away-Coming-Back-10-Days-Later Party
We fumed and screamed in our Mexico nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the road of Mexico and all we could do was yell, I guess–across the night.
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Andale’s 10th Anniversary in Playa del Carmen
The music from the Andale 10year anniversary bazaar echoed from my balcony. We walked toward a barricaded street stuffed with people. Andale is a publication in Playa del Carmen. Crowded groups push their way along piles of used and new items. Books, pallet furniture, clothes and godly amounts of shoes. Snack vendors hog the street…
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Hayes Art: A Toddler Gallery
Born 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona, Hayes Rhinehart is a leading self-taught artist creating works both locally and abroad. Rhinehart’s works can be found hung on the refrigerator at his parents’ house, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Slangshot.org and now Beach House Montessori in Tampa. He currently resides in the buzzing Channelside District of downtown…
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Hecho En Mexico: Playa del Carmen’s Thriftiest Bikini
I had been eyeing a $250 dollar bathing suit in a storefront window for a month when it happened. Lying on the beach, a woman walked right in line of my ocean view with the bathing suit. It looked horrible. Ok maybe horrible is a bit extreme, but it did not look $250 dollars worthy.…
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Thrifting at Segunda Vida
Downtown Playa del Carmen is not absent of boutique shops, but it is missing an abundance of thrift stores. In America, consignment shops seem to be on nearly every corner but here in Playa I was only able to find one: Segunda Vida (Second Life). The tiny, eclectic shop displays racks of specialty items from…
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A Birthday in Mexico
Why not start out your birthday with cupcakes right? Every three-year-old deserves to eat cupcakes for breakfast on their birthday while ripping wrapping paper from his stash of gifts. Pasteleria La Migaja (Crumble Cakes) fashioned the most marvelous swashbuckler cupcakes a little boy could ask for. The pirate creations were devoured by the birthday boy,…
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The Exploration of Foods in Playa Del Carmen
I won’t say that moving to Playa Del Carmen was much of a culture shock but I will say that everyday things I am accustomed to in the United States definitely seem different. Most people do not embrace change easily or they have a hard time adjusting in an environment unlike what they are used…
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Let’s See If We Can Get the Gringos to Eat the Worm
It turns out the liquor-logged worm lying at the bottom of the tequila bottle is not an ancient Mexican tradition after all.Not only is the “worm in the bottle” myth old and exhausted, there is never supposed to be a worm in Mexican bottled tequila. The worm belongs only in bottles of Mezcal. However, various American…
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Maya, which in Sanskrit, means, dreamlike, the earth, all living things in the Universe must be regarded as Maya, the reflection of the moon on the lake – Jack Kerouac
There has been much buildup of the Mayan calendar ending this year and what (if anything) will happen. I guess you can say curiosity led me, my husband and son to Playa del Carmen. I imagined I’d be much older visiting the Mayan ruins. We arrived in Playa a couple of days before visiting the Tulum ruins…
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