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Saturday was a pretty eventful day which was mostly taken up by the Gran Museo del Mundo Maya, dedicated to the civilization that once controlled the Yucatán peninsula, followed by the reason why I was in Mérida when I was--the Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon.
Read more: Yucatán 2017 Part 2 - Mayan Museum and Half Marathon
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Ever since my first expedition into Mexico in 2015 I had wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, in that country for a few days unconnected to a cruise. Mexico City was at the top of my list, but I would've gladly gone to any big city outside of the cartel states. The international Rock 'n Roll Marathon series had a few events in Mexico, and their half-marathon in Mérida, Yucatán, scheduled for November 4, 2017 worked out great as it was at a time when I didn't have much else lined up.
Read more: Yucatán 2017 Part 1 - First Impressions of Mérida
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Perfect timing...not even a week after my post in praise of cruising went up, this informative article appeared. While it doesn't inspire me to completely boycott cruise lines, it definitely is food for thought. The stubborn optimist in me wants to think that they'll be forced to do something about their polluting engines in the near future. And I still stand by my advice to step off the ship and spend some money in the local economy.
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Looking at the calendar, I can see it's been about almost a month since the coronavirus pandemic started directly affecting Germany and I suddenly found myself having to stay home from work. This has of course given me a lot more time for reflecting on past journeys and blogging about them, as my recent flurry of posts about Canada may have indicated.
Now that I'm done reliving my Canadian experiences, I'm now turning to the other country that borders the US, Mexico, which I think is an overlooked and misunderstood travel destination. Too many people on my side of the border think the whole country is ruled by drug cartels. While that may be true of most of the border states, much of the rest of the country is a world away from that. I first visited there during the first week of October 2015 by way of an equally, I believe, misunderstood means.
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