I’ve done a lot of paddling while I was sitting down, but my sweetheart (Carma) has loved doing it standing up. Who am I to argue with someone I love this much. So I was excited. Three hours of sunrise tour standing on a stylized plank, covering numerous kilometers of still morning waters watching the …

Who doesn’t want to sail on captivating crystal waters of every blue hue? So we did. On a catamaran with three others and a crew of two. We sailed in shallow waters azurely colored. We swam in the chest deep water’s of Pirate’s Canal. We ate a lunch of freshly cut mangoes and bananas and …

Five and a half hour drive, kitty-corner from Sisal on the Yucatan Peninsula. Recommended by people we had met. Off we went for eight days. We were not impressed when we drove in. We ate a decent lunch on the strip along the highway coming into town, looked around a little, and found our way …