Heads Up! More Pics

Hey all....just giving you a heads up that we have posted 2 new sets of photos: A Wild Day at the Beach and The Flavor of Tulum. you can access them via the "more photos" link. i also posted "an ode to tulum" ......enjoy. mary

An Ode to Tulum

days and night doing both nothing and something. sunning. swimming. eating fruit. people watching and romantic swims. so many shapes and sizes. long shorts. short shorts. NO SHORTS! brown bare breasts floating with the sea breeze. neon children with buckets of sand. leather skin. pear skin. strawberry shoulders under braided hair. hairy beer bellies and playful skipping in the surf. thin shoulders. healthy hips.

white suits. orange suits. brown suits. stripes. dots. flowers. tye dye. sunglasses and grey curls. cigarettes, palm trees and thatched shade. sea fever. warm cool water wrapping around your flesh like silky air. enveloped by it soothingly--even lovingly. an aqua dream. fish. peaceful humming.

surf singing, children shouting, dogs barking, venders selling, cars honking, garbage piling, roosters cockadoodledoing, palms whispering, cats moaning, lovers cooing

sand resting, sun relentless, families laughing, flesh reciting poetry, mysterious sea, birds clickclacketing Yucatan operas

hammocks swaying, ranchero music, dust flying, clothes drying, food cooking, thatched roofs and cinderblock houses

fearless children, sad children, free children, curtain doors, fruit trees, aqua walls, melon walls, violet walls and creamy sunsets. pink paradise blooms and lazy-eyed drunks

Aussies, Israelis, Italians, Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, American Expatriots, and one Japanese guy!

wealthy people, poor people, tourists and story-tellers, gypsies, hippies, and lo mexicano, butterflies, pelicans, internet cafes, lizards, coral, conch shells, hurricane debris and martini bars

leaving my paradise womb i realize the whole thing feels like one very long and extraordinary day. magik mexico. colorful. carribean. coquettish. absorbing you into itself and rendering you free of sins and virtues, ideas and preoccupations.

Rancho Tranquilo/ Tulum, Mexico

hey all........
we have included a link to the hotel/hostel we are staying at here in paradise(El Rancho Tranquilo)--Tulum, Mexico. you can access it via our "links". we highly recommend it to any and all who might wish to travel/vacation in a dream. it offers various levels of accomodation, is centrally located, affordable, and has some great extras like......communal kitchen, free transport to beach, peaceful but lively ambiance, families, backpackers, lovely gardens, free make it yourself breakfast, and friendly staff who give great advice on local treasures.....all the bennies of a hostel and hotel wrapped in one tranquil gift.

50 Bucks and a Free Brunch......

This is something that occured over a week ago but is well worth sharing.....
hahahahaha ha ha hehe……laughing all the way to the bank.
How on earth did we manage to score a five***** brunch and 50 bucks in cash from the grand Royal Palms Private Beach Club on our first day in Mexico???
bent and beat after Russian cocktails and no sleep……the flight was grueling. A very friendly guy. Very good English. Next thing you know we meet him outside our hostel the next day for a private tour……all for spending a mere hour and a half trippin’ on the decadent benefits of plastic paradiso. Yes……that’s right…..for just $35,000 dollars you too can own a beach front condo (in the path a many hurricanes) for one whole week every year. Yes…you too….can bask in chlorinated bliss while dining on shrimp cocktail and sipping your dry martini next to a leather skinned beauty bound for chemotherapy. How many couples arriving in Cancun laden with well-worn backpacks, sporting thrift store duds, typically invest in exclusive condos for the richy rich—hola , and welcome to Mexico!!

Flavor from la Playa Maya

hola! yes we are sitting at el Bar Cubano with mojitos and cervesas in hand. why are we in Cuba while in Mexico?? because very cool french guy with Cuban lady here has wireless internet!!!! yeah........life is too good. today...swiming in the cenote(natural well). yesterday..... a carribean beach for us alone. tomorrow......whatever gift is delivered to us.

the Yucatan is a magik place. where essenses of Mexico colide with the island tropics. colorful. carribean. coquettish.
for my eyes, my ears, my nose--everything is new. i want to post, to say hi, but i don't want to write, to think-- only to live--in this moment.

we were at El Centote Escondito. swimming. relaxing. and enjoying the chatter of the beautiful Mexican familia next to us. warm and comical they were. water so bloody fresh and clear you can see through it like a glass door. in the state of Quintana Roo, couple hours south of the terribly outrageous Cancun. La Maya Riviera. paradiso. dream. alive. where swimming is not so much a pastime as a necesity. lovely wet life! El Mar Caribe(the carribean). where the aqua sea tangos with el sol bleached sand. and brown bodies splash the landscape. as my own skin grows darker my heart lighter. the heat and sun saturate my brain-- removinmg all thoughts, hopes, expectations, desires--except to breath in this moment. life is good.....so very damn good. we are in paradiso. alive. can't imagine life other than we are living it. warm hugs from Mexico. --Mary
ps. we have posted more pics to flicker....you can access them via the "more photos" link.