Like always, I have to end my travel blog in Abbotsford just so that I can close off the loop. I've had the time to spend four hours on the ADO bus traveling to Cancun. Then another five (5) hours on a WestJet flight into Vancouver - I guess I've had a little time for reflection on the past 30+ days in Mexico. When I sit down and really think about what we've done, it kind of amazes me. I think some people would return home and say "What did we do"?, but I don't ...

It's been a couple of hectic days in Merida for us. We've been having to deal with the Mexican Real Estate Commission so to speak, it's a little frustrating and certainly not like buying property in Canada. As I said earlier, I went to my new dentist and unbeknownst to me Deborah got a little crazy with the camera (with the dentist's help), so I've added a shot of me in the chair. On Friday night it was the Festival of Lights in town, so I've also added a few sho...

Today was dentist day in Merida. I thought I'd check out the local dental scene so I booked an appointment for just a cleaning at Dental of Merida with Dr. Eduardo J. Rodriguez Castellanos (wow) located at Calle 5-B x 20-B y 20-C Xcumpich, Merida Yucatan. Thankfully Bob drove us to get there or we'd likely never have found it. We arrived at 3:00 pm for our 4:00 pm appointment and the front door was locked. It was a very modern, contemporary building, but concerne...

Today was a day off sort of, so we decided that we'd head to the Gran Museo del Mundo Maya that's in the northern part of Merida proper. But before we went to the museum we made our way to Wayan'es, a local taco bar where you get these excellent little tacos made of pork belly, fajitas w/cheese served on little taco shells, all for the amazing price of $0.55US. We had a pretty cheap but nice lunch at this place. We then grabbed a UBER ($75.00P or $3.75US) up to t...

Yesterday was a nice day. We had arranged with Bob, Denice and Amy to go to some of the local antique shops in Merida. But first they had arranged for us to visit the casa of one of our new neighbors - Roger and Phyliss from Cape Cod. They've been 6/6 residents here for about four years and they live virtually across the street from where are new home will be. This was another WOW home. It's really so unsuspecting, there's this faded blue facade with an old doo...