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07-25-2024, 12:55 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

My neighbors recently passed around a petition to have two of them installed on the street where I live. There's no escape...

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07-25-2024, 07:34 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

INTERMISSION My last post completes Part 2 of this report, making way for the third and final segment: our drive back north to the border, with...

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07-25-2024, 07:26 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

A FAST RUN BACK TO PALENQUE! Ruta Maya Road Sign, complete with its own Tope We knew what to expect on the drive back. Our old friend MX 307,...

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07-24-2024, 07:39 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

The caretakers eventually called time on my photo session, so Mike and I explored the rest of the site, very little of which has been cleared and...

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07-23-2024, 06:37 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

ROOM 1 Reproduction of Room One by Latin American Studies.org Composite photo of the lower wall

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07-22-2024, 06:32 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

BONAMPAK The van dropped us off where the road ended and the footpath began, but we still had to walk at least half a mile to the site. The day...

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07-21-2024, 06:39 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

DAY 19: A Stone’s Throw from Guatemala By the morning of Day 19, I’d recovered to the point that I was willing to take a chance on Bonampak, and...

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07-20-2024, 06:36 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

Palenque, Reprised We found our hotel easily enough (thanks to the wonders of GPS), and had a couple of beers in the room to unwind from the...

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07-19-2024, 06:32 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

DAY 17: FROM CAMPECHE BACK TO PALENQUE The 17th day of our road trip started out exactly the same as our 16th day: we had breakfast at our hotel,...

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07-18-2024, 06:33 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

A FAST RUN BACK TO CAMPECHE Driving back, we were in a race against time and a setting sun, but this was not a road that could be driven fast, so...

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07-17-2024, 06:16 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

XLAPAK By then it was 4:10, and according to the man in the ticket shack, Xlapak closes at 4:30, rather than the usual 5:00 PM. Since we only had...

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07-16-2024, 07:05 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

LABNA Apparently, we’d driven right past Xlapak, but I figured we could look for it again on our drive back out. We bought our tickets for Labna,...

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07-15-2024, 06:41 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

SAYIL Leafcutter Ants In the Yucatec Maya language, Sayil means “Place of the Leafcutter Ants,” and it’s easy to see why. For such tiny...

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07-14-2024, 09:31 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

Thanks! I love this set of images, especially that top one. The expressions on their faces, and the colors! That dance festival was a spectacular...

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07-14-2024, 09:23 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

Pepe was a cool guy. Mike kept his GoPro camera running through most of his impassioned lecture, and that's probably the most interesting segment of...

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07-14-2024, 06:00 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

TOHCOK The first thing we saw was a road sign identifying the site as “Tacob.” I used my phone to do a search on that name, and Google hacked up a...

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07-13-2024, 07:52 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

DAY 16: Here a Puuc, there a Puuc, everywhere a Puuc Puuc On the 16th day of our road trip, we had breakfast at our hotel, the Hotel del Paseo...

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07-12-2024, 02:50 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Return to Banff/Jasper in Planning Summer RoadTrips

Buck: You're most welcome! I missed touring the Burgess Shale for the same reason. There's an exhibit at the little museum in Field (Yoho), and...

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07-12-2024, 08:41 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

In Campeche, they Dance La Guaranducha! This was a truly unexpected pleasure: a serendipitous coincidence of good luck and good timing. Campeche,...

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07-11-2024, 09:03 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Return to Banff/Jasper in Planning Summer RoadTrips

Howdy, Buck: It's been awhile since I was there, but the Canadian Rockies rank high on my list for scenic splendor. Most of the recommendations I...

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07-11-2024, 08:10 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

Onward, to CAMPECHE! We left the Archaeological Park at about 2:30, pretty well beat after four hours spent walking around the ruins. Campeche was...

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07-10-2024, 04:57 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

EDZNÁ There were four or five other cars in the small parking lot when we got there. They were apparently the first shift, the folks who came...

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07-10-2024, 04:52 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

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07-10-2024, 11:24 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

DAY 15: Escárcega to Edzná, First House of the Itzás Escárcega is a small city of about 30,000, located at the junction of two Federal highways...

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07-09-2024, 08:07 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

I think, in the case of Becán, that the guest book is an old tradition that they've never given up. The site doesn't get many visitors--it's too far...

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07-08-2024, 08:47 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

CHICANNÁ We left Becán, and we were barely underway when we spotted the sign with the pyramid, pointing to the left: Do I even need to...

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07-07-2024, 09:33 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back in RoadTrip Field Reports

BECÁN Aside from the brief rain storm that soaked us at Muyil, this had been a perfect day, weather-wise, with temps in the high 70’s, and...

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