An Oceanfront Refuge Hidden Amid the Jungle I was really hoping for a jaguar… Closest I came was a black house cat lounging in the sand under the shade of a low-rise jungle canopy. My expectations for a jaguar weren’t unwarranted. Roadside signs do note jaguars live in the vicinity. I don’t know—maybe they’re nocturnal. [Read More] …
A Lesson From The Pirate of the Riviera Maya
Add This Tip to Your Travel Rulebook I would now like to amend the official travel rulebook: When, in the course of seeking lunch, one comes upon an alfresco eatery in which two men are casually playing backgammon and the waiters aren’t batting an eye, stop and sit. You have found a local diner. Life [Read More] …
Ronan McMahon Just Changed My Life
An Eye-Opening Experience Along Mexico’s Caribbean Coast About 30 seconds in, a realization hit me: I could actually afford to live in a place like this. “A place like this,” in this case, is a planned community called Corasol, sitting along a jungley stretch of the Caribbean just north of Playa del Carmen on Mexico’s [Read More] …
Paradise…With an Edge
A Joyous Return to Mexico The smell of barbecued meat lingers in the sultry night air. A young, dreadlocked woman strums a guitalele and dishes up a buttery, loungey version of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff. The small clot of diners isn’t really paying much attention, consumed in private conversations, but offer her a [Read More] …
Crazy NFT Gains While Sitting on a Flight to Cancún
I Turned $200 Into $12K Thanks to “Free” Crypto Assets. I knew exactly what I wanted to write as I situated myself into an Air Canada flight to Toronto, the layover destination for my onward journey to Cancún. What I wanted to write was: It doesn’t get any crazier than this! There were two reasons [Read More] …