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Back from a wonderful trip
My parents treated us to a really nice (almost 2 week) vacation in Mexico. We spent 11 days traveling around large portions of the Yucatan Peninsula looking at Mayan ruins and sampling the local cuisine from as many restaurants as possible. My mom knows the best spots to check out the ruins and taught us a lot about Mayan culture. All I can say is WOW!
We learned a lot about our own life in the process of discovering what we could learn about life in the Yucatan... We feel somewhat lost in the U.S. - Becky and I are definitely not your typical couple and we don't really understand the whole big car, big house, multiple TV, football, throw everything in the trash lifestyle. We tried the American dream for 15 years and it really didn't add up to anything that resembled happiness.
Down in Mexico, we see that we're right on track - living simply and as independently as possible. They recycle - we only scratch the surface of recycling... I love the obviously recycled bottles (they sanitize and refill vs. crushing, melting, casting and reprinting each time they are returned). The fact that our morning eggs didn't come in a carton made me smile... No individual plastic vegetable bags - and everything didn't come pre-wrapped in plastic and Styrofoam. Simple inexpensive and smart!I have over 500 photos and lots of great memories - when I have a bit more time I'll post some of them here.
posted by VirP at
4:42 PM
2 Comments:
Do you think you will travel down there with the wife and kids for a while?
Some day in the future I could see us spending 3 months to a year in Mexico. I don't see making the move permanent at this point though. The main problem is that of income... We need the internet and postal services to keep our home business going. Mexico does not have the most reliable postal system from what I understand, and internet access seemed hit and miss (even phone was unreliable in some places we stayed). There's the possibility of satellite internet access (as well as cell phone), but until we can cheaply ship our goods to anywhere in the world reliably or move away from a product based business, we're kind of limited to the U.S. We have plans for a few income sources that do not involve the postal service, but until they mature, we're going to have to continue exploring here in the U.S. and only making short trips to other countries.
I'd like to check out Canada, the Australia/New Zealand area, Argentina and parts of Europe some time in the future too. That requires a bit more planning if we want to stay mobile abroad though...
The more I visit other places, the more I learn about myself and my place in the world. The U.S. is actually very ridiculous if you look at it from a world point of view. Seeing other countries and their way of life underscores the division of wealth and how truly greedy and wasteful we are as Americans in general. Given my below the poverty level income I am still richer than most - and happy despite the view from most that I am very poor...
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