Tag: Quintana Roo
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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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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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