A Drive Along the World’s Most Trendy Jungle Road Only sometimes is picking up hitchhikers in Mexico a bad idea. That you are reading this dispatch is indication that this is not one of those times. My colleague, Ciaran, and I were returning to our rented condo in Tulum after grabbing a late-ish dinner along [Read More] …
Video: Ronan McMahon and I Discuss Opportunities, White Sand, and Perfect Weather
Over the past week, I’ve been visiting Mexico’s Riviera Maya in the company of Ronan McMahon, the international property expert behind Real Estate Trend Alert. Ronan’s been showing me around Playa del Carmen and Tulum, two of the fastest-growing beach cities…not just in Mexico, but pretty much anywhere. And let me tell you, I’ve not [Read More] …
Chasing Jaguars in Tulum, Mexico
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] …
