Adam Paxton

My guess is "It's been a while since posting" is a tough keyword search phrase to win on the search results page for many professional bloggers out there, as just about every blog goes through a dormant phase, and a 'hey, we are back!' post after x amount of time. So, it's time to restart the postings now that I've given nearly a year to let things settle down.  We've been busy since annou...

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It is somewhat official now: Gretchen and I are relocating to Cancún.  Gretchen will still be doing her same job there, just more focused on the Caribbean side of things.  I'll be doing my same stuff too, just on the beach.  I've already had a little practice, as the picture indicates.

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We took advantage of the long weekend, or puente, to take a trip to Acapulco.  It's about a 6 hour drive from Mexico City, unless there's traffic.  There is always traffic. This was our first trip by bus to a beach destination, and my first trip to Acapulco.  Gretchen had gone there for a night for work and stayed at the Las Brisas Hotel, and had really liked it, so we headed there...

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Mexico's most popular lucha libre wrestler of all time, El Santo, made dozens of films throughout his career, most of them having titles beginning "El Santo contra ... " and then insert the name of the villain of that particular film, such as Zombies, Female Vampires, Dr. Death, etc.  One of the better known titles is "El Santo contra Las Momias de Guanajuato", perhaps this is because there ...

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Mexico celebrated Independence day last week (what, they celebrate Cinco de Mayo in September?), so we took advantage of the extra vacation day to make a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico, about four and a half hours north of Mexico City by bus.

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