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March 24 Updates: Here are the latest current needs at Estancia Nueva Vida   Girl’s Program for 18 poor girls in south Merida.   The girls range in age from ages 6 – 12. Estancia Nueva Vida  An Erie, PA – Yucatan … Continue reading →

March 21 Updates: Here are the latest current Tren Maya Stations & Stops into and out-of Merida including all the new stops opened since March 1, 2024… plus the current prices for Merida-Teya voyages: Jan. 20 News: Mexico unveiled special … Continue reading →

March 21 Updates: Current Prices into & out-of Merida-Teya: Jan 29 Updates: Current The Tren Maya track sections between Cancun airport and Playa del Carmen are scheduled to open on Feb. 29. Also: The new official ON-LINE site to check … Continue reading →

Jan. 2, 2024   INM has published it’s 2024 Fee Schedule: *           *           *           * Feel free to copy while giving proper attribution: YucaLandia/Surviving Yucatan.© … Continue reading →

Dec. 18, 2023 Mazatlan … Sinaloa … April 8, 2024. NASA says this will be the best viewing spot in North America – to experience the ‘totality’ of this years Full Eclipse. Why report this NOW? … Hotel-accomodation booking are … Continue reading →

Dec. 17, 2023Welxome to an introductory presentation about the Estancia Nueva Vida Girls program in south Merida, Yucatan.  Please note that this presentation was created over a year ago, and some of the information is not current:   *   … Continue reading →

Dec. 15 News: Public Service Announcement: The  first Tren Maya trains started running on schedule this monring on some special INAUGURAL ROUTES between Cancun – Merida- Campeche one just subpart … of just one level …  of Tren Maya’s 5 … Continue reading →

Nov. 27, 2023 Early Germans were making & throwing sharpened boomerangs … 300,000 yrs ago – outside of Schöningen, Germany. The blood stains on the … carefully seasoned, carefully shaped… sharpened ends of several early German-boomerangs confirm their use & … Continue reading →

Nov. 27, 2023AGUINALDOs … and Vacation Days-Pay … UPDATED for 2023’s Change of a 25% Vacation Pay Premium** As Christmas holiday chatzkies are appearing on store shelves …. as we make our holiday plans … It’s time to remember our … Continue reading →

Nov. 19, 2023 Will Yucatan’s coastal towns & resorts be underwater by 2035 … or 2050 … unless we change?** Here’s a fun graph from 4 yrs ago … 2019 … that ironically does not include the last 4 years … Continue reading →

Nov. 13, 2023 The No Fun Group is roaming our snacking landscapes again, pointing out that almost all chocolate contains some Cadmium & Lead, yet many of our beloved DARK chocolate brands (like HERSHEY’s) are contaminated with unhealthy levels of … Continue reading →

Nov. 13, 2023 Just like all the fun emerging news on our Government’s 5 new Tren Maya systems, there’s also emerging news on on our Government’s Maya community development, Ecotourism development and cenote development programs. This COMING FRIDAY & weekend … Continue reading →

Dec. 4 UPDATES: The Tren Maya Program’s 5 levels of service … on 7 sections of tracks … will be starting on different dates, starting on Dec. 15 for the Campeche to Cancun round trip TOURIST service. Tickets for the … Continue reading →

Sept. 16, 2023Saturday morning musings … as I enjoy my spoonfull of sugar in my coffee … = = = = Humans … Where genes go to die … Seriously, over 50% of your DNA’s genetic coding genes … are … Continue reading →

Jan. 14, 2016 Because we know more than 12 people with Dengue, along with way too many people in the hospitals with Dengue … along with the nasty DEN-3 Variant of Dengue being the most common variant circulating in Yucatan … Continue reading →

Sept 12, 2023 COVID Booster News: Pfizer & Moderna are still chasing the all the rapidly mutating SARS-Co-V-2 virus subvariants … as they release a “new” set of boosters this Friday – by offering us vaccine-boosters that were designed for … Continue reading →

Oct 14, 2023 Update:akj Eclipse fun with good friends, Mark & Marcelo:I just got home from a lovely little eclipse-viewing party, where we shared welding helmets to watch this quite*special annular eclipse from Mark’s patio in Merida, Yucatan. Besides using … Continue reading →

Sept. 3, 2023Do you enjoy shifting your perspectives? Consider how the stories reported by modern “news” outlets, miss so many key facts & key details, that they often don’t even come close to reality. = = = = As we … Continue reading →

Do you enjoy shifting your perspectives? Consider how the maps of Merida have changed over time. How many readers have believed the many past supposed “old” maps of Merida that show Merida’s Plaza Grande (aka “Plaza Principal” or “Zocalo”) as … Continue reading →

Do you enjoy shifting your perspectives? I LOVE how this overhead image of El Observatorio – “El Caracol” at Chichen Itza … shows how crazy-inconsistent the Maya mis-aligned the building’s stairs … ~ Shows how crazy-inconsistent the Maya mis-aligned the … Continue reading →