A Tequila Sunrise at the Hotel California!

Baha California is hot, and where we are, in Los Cabos it is HOT! Stepping off the plane from balmy San Francisco I was blasted by the humid heat of this peninsula in Mexico. It is supposedly the low season because of the intense heat, and the start of the hurricane season. This area was …

NOT SO SOFT…LAX and Homeward Bound.

My time in Cuba has really made me appreciate my life in Australia. That old cliche..’Australia is a lucky country, ’ and I live in a beautiful part of this country. Another interesting facet of Cuban life, was the way co- workers related to each other..kissing at work! While they deliver the worst, surliest customer …

NOT SO SOFT..Crumbling Haciendas and Mayan Cenotes.

Merida in the Yucatan is full of romantically decayed haciendas. My favourite was Hacienda Yaxcapoil- once a thriving and wealthy henequen( sisal) the green gold, farm. It is partially maintained, and it is possible to stay there, but a bit impossible without a car. The local Mayans live in poverty, with high rates of illiteracy. …

NOT SO SOFT….Muy Cosmopolitan in the Yucatan

I am doing this blog in stages, because Tumblr is freezing on me, then the blog gets deleted..any ideas on how to stop this 4 th time it has frozen This is the alcohol free zone in the tourist section,of CAMPECHE! no alcohol before 6.00 pm, and you can not buy booze anywhere in the …