Chichen Itza is in fact the first Heritage Site that Nicole and I visited together thanks to her parents, who organized a family trip down to Mexico for Christmas a few years back.
Perhaps one of the greatest Mayan sacred sites on the Yucatan peninsula, the fusion of Mayan and Toltec civilizations from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries certainly makes it the most important example of this union, found upon almost every inch of the monuments and artistry that comprise the grounds of Chichen Itza.
And even though climbing the Castillo …

When we heard about easyJet’s Inspiration Initiative, and found that it coincidentally fell around our blog’s one year anniversary, we almost felt obliged to write our own Inspiration Initiative post! We hope that our stories of travel and the reasons why we do it help inspire others to head out there and see the world.
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Nicole

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Every March Break, my parents drove us down to Florida for a week to …

During our visit to Chichen Itza, our guide Ivan – described to us by his employer as the Russian with the heart of a Mexican – shared with us his trick for getting the tour without having to pay for the tour.

Places like this Mexican ruin are extremely popular, and thus extremely busy.
This however can be turned to your advantage. Instead of arriving first thing in the morning to jump the crowds, try and get there when the first morning’s tours are beginning. Then you can move around the site …

Now that the blog is back up and running – who would have thought an upgrade could be so buggy ;) – I thought I’d drop a quick post, though we do promise to have some cruise posts for the upcoming week.
While reading through a backlog of blogs, Nic and I have been flipping around TV watching whatever catches our interest. CBC was airing a documentary on the 2012 Apocalypse, a subject I’ve been considering using for a LARP, and so clearly something I have …

One of our early trips together was a Christmas trip to Cancun we took in 2004 with my parents, my brother, and Kate, who would eventually be my sister-in-law.  As Gary and I are both usually all about ruins, I lobbied hard for a trip to Chichen Itza – and everyone actually agreed.  We had an excellent Russian-turned-Mexican driver who took us out there, to a nearby cenote and to Valladolid, which is a long day, and not nearly enough time in the town… but you do what you can.
Gary …