vacation – Whisky in my Pocket

Mexico Day 9: New Year’s Eve in Playa del Carmen

by KirkJanuary 2, 2019June 2, 2026

I was up earlier than Caitlin and Marie again and headed to my new favourite spot (Pez Vela) to have a cup of coffee and …

Mexico Day 8: Playa del Carmen and Tulum

by KirkJanuary 1, 2019June 2, 2026

I woke up even earlier than usual (for this trip at least) and headed down to the beach while it was still dark… There were …

Mexico Day 7: Valladolid to Playa del Carmen

by KirkDecember 31, 2018June 2, 2026

I woke up before Marie and Caitlin (as I normally do) and tried to slip out as quietly as I could (I mostly succeeded this …

Mexico Day 5: Valladolid

by KirkDecember 29, 2018June 2, 2026

I rolled out of bed earlier than Caitlin and Marie and tried to slip out as quietly as I could (not easy on tiled floors …

Mexico Day 2: Chilling in Puerto Morelos

by KirkDecember 25, 2018June 2, 2026

I woke up this morning before Caitlin and Marie (although I did sleep in later than I ever do at home – 8AM!!) and headed …

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”
Edward Abbey