Dallas News Warns Against Mexico Travel

With Spring Break in the offing, the Dallas News issued a warning to students asking them to stay away from tourist hotspots in Mexico, including Cancun and Cozumel in Yucatan, especially at the U.S./Mexico border because of drug cartel wars.

Criminals are known to target foreign visitors in vacation towns, especially in neighborhoods around nightclubs. Authorities urge Americans to travel in groups, be aware of their surroundings, avoid obvious displays of intoxication and, in general, use common sense.

Best to Visit Tulum by Watching a Video

After disembarking from a cruise ship docked at Isla Cozumel, a passenger describes seasickness on the ferry to the mainland, interminable lines of hordes of people waiting for transportation to the ruin at Tulum, then waiting in an endless to get into the ruin, followed by a visit to the ruin in 90 degree heat with little shade. Her conclusion?

I can come to only one conclusion: Despite my love of travel and exploration-based education, I feel that what would really bring Tulum alive is a well-made HD documentary with engaging narration…and a front row seat on your own couch.

— Doin’ Time at the Ruins in Tulum

Reading about “TravelWitihTwo.com’s” adventure in Tulum, I feel happy and grateful that I am making the Yucatan Travel Movie to help people like her out. I am also very grateful that we traveled in a rental car and arrived before the hordes of tourists dependent upon tour buses.

Coba, a Great Place to Climb a Pyramid

The Yucatan Travel Movie includes a visit to Coba, including a climb up Nohoch Mull, a very steep, 12-story tall pyramid. Coba is described in the following blog:

Another famous Mayan city is Cobá, located 40km west of Tulum. Cobá is especially fun because it has one of the few pyramids that can still be climbed. In total, the grand pyramid has over 120 steep steps that require careful footing and lots of sunscreen. The view, however, is breathtaking, as you see the surrounding jungle and peaks of smaller temples sitting between tree tops. The remainder of this ancient Mayan city is great for walking as all the temples are connected via well-maintained walking and biking paths under shady trees.

– My Trip Guru

Chile Earthquake – Not a Harbinger of 2012?

On the other hand, the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile are likely simply Planet Earth as usual rather than the earth gearing up for major cataclysms in 2012. After all, this is a geologically active planet.

Is Chile Earthquake Forewarning of 2012?

First Haiti, then Japan, now Chile. Are these earthquakes working up to the massive changes coming around December 21, 2012?

2012 Pole Shift Caused by Ice Melt?

I recently saw the Public Broadcasting Station‘s shocking but beautiful documentary, Extreme Ice. Dazzling photographs of illustrate the possibly irreversible melting of crucial glaciers at the earth’s poles. Could this meltdown of the ice lead to a pole shift as predicted by Edgar Cayce? I vaguely remember reading in the foreword of one of Immanuel Velikovsky‘s books something about a shift in the ice at the poles possibly causing the earth’s crust to shift over our planet’s core like the rind over the inside of an orange. Could this be the 2012 cataclysm?

2012 Warning Doesn’t Make Sense

Here’s a quote that doesn’t make sense. It says that our solar system will be below the Milky Way Galaxy. That’s impossible since the Solar System – our sun, earth, moon, and the planets – are part of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are IN the Milky Way Galaxy. We cannot be below it. We are tiny. All the stars you see at night surrounding us are also in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is huge. For us to be below the Milky Way, we would have to be out in space without stars surrounding us.

The Milky Way Galaxy is our home galaxy. To say that the Solar System would be below and out of the Milky Way Galaxy is as absurd as saying that a waterlily would not be in a pond.

Here’s the quote from 2012 Warning:

The sun, earth, and milky way will align at the galactic equator, on December 21, 2012, the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and the end of the Mayan calendar. This only happens every 25,800 years! For the first time in recorded history, our entire solar system will move BELOW the milky way galaxy. These combined cosmic events, will be the end of the world as we know it.

Divers Study Bimini Road

Here’s a blog report of a snorkelling trip to the “road” from the Lost City of Atlantis off the coast of Bimini Island.

With a nod to the affirmative, snorkellers zipped tight into wetsuits are ready to slip into the sea in search of the Lost City of Atlantis.

Since the 1970s when a prediction made by American psychic Edgar Cayce in the 1930s appeared to be realized, the site has been explored by thousands of divers, scientists and TV crews.

– IFPress

Fantastic Temple Grandin Movie

I just saw the move, Temple Grandin, about the amazing autistic woman who wrote, Thinking in Pictures. I had already read the book and found it fantastic. The movie added information about her childhood and brought alive her many challenges. I especially resonated with the movie because all of us are challenged in one way or another. Her story gives so much hope.

An American Bimbo in Yucatan

This is a great book, An American Bimbo in Yucatan, which my publishing company, SunTopaz LLC, will be publishing soon. However, I wonder about the title. It is a fantastic true story of a woman from Oregon who moves to Yucatan, meets and marries a Mayan man, and has lived in a Mayan village for the last 19 years.

I fear the “American Bimbo” in the title sounds too much like a clueless, ignorant, unkind blonde disrepecting the Mayan people. In reality, she is very grateful for all she has learned from the Mayan villagers.

But, she is blonde and she did start out pretty clueless. Maybe a better title would be “An Oregon Bimbo in Yucatan.” What do you think?