A Tale of Yucatan
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Comment from Pearl Edwards
I t is certainly a different world that you describe Tony, and with your descriptions we can almost feel like we are there with you, especially with all the aromas mingling together, some good some not so good.
Interesting travels,
cheers,
valda
reply by the author on 12-Jan-2017
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I t is certainly a different world that you describe Tony, and with your descriptions we can almost feel like we are there with you, especially with all the aromas mingling together, some good some not so good.
Interesting travels,
cheers,
valda
Comment Written 12-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 12-Jan-2017
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Places like this can certainky assail the nostrils at times!
Comment from IndianaIrish
Wow, stellar descriptions, Tony, and the imagery was easy to envision with your outstanding words. You include all the senses in this chapter, so everything you describe comes to life.
Smiles,
Karyn :-)
reply by the author on 11-Jan-2017
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Wow, stellar descriptions, Tony, and the imagery was easy to envision with your outstanding words. You include all the senses in this chapter, so everything you describe comes to life.
Smiles,
Karyn :-)
Comment Written 11-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 11-Jan-2017
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Again, many thanks for your comments about the sensory aspects of this part.
Comment from w.j.debi
An interesting travel log full of facts about country, wildlife and people. It sounds like travel in that part of the world is an adventure in just getting from one place to another. Enjoying the journey and not just the destination seems to be important when traveling. You certainly created some great memories.
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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An interesting travel log full of facts about country, wildlife and people. It sounds like travel in that part of the world is an adventure in just getting from one place to another. Enjoying the journey and not just the destination seems to be important when traveling. You certainly created some great memories.
Comment Written 07-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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Thanks, WJ. I appreciate your dropping by to read this. Glad that you enjoyed it and many thanks for your kind comments. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I am loving this trip. It's just like a travelogue and I mean that in a good way.
We returned to Belize City late next morning in much the same way that we had come, speeding across the Caribbean in an open boat. (I had an editor change all of my next morning to the following morning. He said it had to do with definition.)
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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I am loving this trip. It's just like a travelogue and I mean that in a good way.
We returned to Belize City late next morning in much the same way that we had come, speeding across the Caribbean in an open boat. (I had an editor change all of my next morning to the following morning. He said it had to do with definition.)
Comment Written 07-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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Thanks, Barbara. I appreciate your dropping by to read this lengthy saga. Glad that you are enjoying it. Many thanks for your kind comments. I have always used 'next' and 'following' interchangeably and so was interested by the editorial opinion. I'll change it, but might also do some further research to see if I can understand the reasoning. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from krys123
Home again, home again, Tony;
-I'm at home again referring to your back now at Belize and reconfiguring your travel plans to meet what you would like to do in your final two or two days that you will be being here on your vacation. One of these days are paid by the airlines in the other day is paid by you.
-I really like how you definitively describe the social network of the area that you are and by using words such as tucked and "machine-guns loosely tucked underneath her shoulders". All his village life was clearly and plainly describe in your lines like: " they cut a swathe through assorted cyclists and pedestrians swaying and swerving in all directions as they go about their daily business. Dusty and hot assail the nose, but really the spice of the place is in the air; a delicious mixture of food odours from roadside stalls mingles with the stench of burning rubber and diesel fumes; a suggestion of over-ripe banana and mango hangs in the background and somewhere just over the wall a sweet scent wafts, fleetingly redolent of frangipani."
- The next day the extensive ruins of Tikal were next on your excursions and that would be a full day of excursion for you all for the ruins are, as I wrote, very extensive.
-It was also amazing how you brought in Mayan mythology by writing about how the crocodile and turtle are a bridge between this world and the next four to cross one world to the next that neatly structured divide. Also, this was the river that you traveled by and where these creatures existed.
-You also mentioned that is closer you get to the ruins on your adventurous journey is the vegetation becomes thickened. You also amazed that your guide was more familiar with or just as familiar with the vegetation and plan since he was about the Mayan ruins.
-I was very much amazed that this one is I learn much about the culture of the area and the history both botanically and behaviorally mixed and assorted part of the region. Huh?
-Thanks for sharing this Tony I did enjoy this one and when you going to be taking me on my trip? Chuckle!
Alex
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reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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Home again, home again, Tony;
-I'm at home again referring to your back now at Belize and reconfiguring your travel plans to meet what you would like to do in your final two or two days that you will be being here on your vacation. One of these days are paid by the airlines in the other day is paid by you.
-I really like how you definitively describe the social network of the area that you are and by using words such as tucked and "machine-guns loosely tucked underneath her shoulders". All his village life was clearly and plainly describe in your lines like: " they cut a swathe through assorted cyclists and pedestrians swaying and swerving in all directions as they go about their daily business. Dusty and hot assail the nose, but really the spice of the place is in the air; a delicious mixture of food odours from roadside stalls mingles with the stench of burning rubber and diesel fumes; a suggestion of over-ripe banana and mango hangs in the background and somewhere just over the wall a sweet scent wafts, fleetingly redolent of frangipani."
- The next day the extensive ruins of Tikal were next on your excursions and that would be a full day of excursion for you all for the ruins are, as I wrote, very extensive.
-It was also amazing how you brought in Mayan mythology by writing about how the crocodile and turtle are a bridge between this world and the next four to cross one world to the next that neatly structured divide. Also, this was the river that you traveled by and where these creatures existed.
-You also mentioned that is closer you get to the ruins on your adventurous journey is the vegetation becomes thickened. You also amazed that your guide was more familiar with or just as familiar with the vegetation and plan since he was about the Mayan ruins.
-I was very much amazed that this one is I learn much about the culture of the area and the history both botanically and behaviorally mixed and assorted part of the region. Huh?
-Thanks for sharing this Tony I did enjoy this one and when you going to be taking me on my trip? Chuckle!
Alex
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Comment Written 07-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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I'm delighted that you think it worth following this story and that you are enjoying it. If you travel to Australia, I imagine the trip will be interesting but less full of incident!
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Probably so, five travel to Australia. Thank you for sharing though and take care.
Alex
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
~Another excellent part of your trip, Tony, I feel as if I'd know the places if we did manage to go there. This is a superb guide to the different areas you've been to. I have always admired those woman who can walk with the water containers on their heads, amazing. The fresh water crocodiles and turtles, was a good lesson too. I learn a lot reading these tales. well done, my friend. :) Sandra
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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~Another excellent part of your trip, Tony, I feel as if I'd know the places if we did manage to go there. This is a superb guide to the different areas you've been to. I have always admired those woman who can walk with the water containers on their heads, amazing. The fresh water crocodiles and turtles, was a good lesson too. I learn a lot reading these tales. well done, my friend. :) Sandra
Comment Written 07-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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Thanks, Sandra, for travelling along with me. I'm enjoying recalling this trip and fortunately have a fairly detailed journal to help me with incidentals that would otherwise have faded from my memory by this time.
Comment from June Sargent
What a ride you took us on! My husband and I have visited the Yucatan peninsula several times. We went to Chichenitza and Tulum. But not Tikal. Needless to say, our trips did not compare to the one you painted a picture of! Great read - would make an exciting movie actually. Well done.
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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What a ride you took us on! My husband and I have visited the Yucatan peninsula several times. We went to Chichenitza and Tulum. But not Tikal. Needless to say, our trips did not compare to the one you painted a picture of! Great read - would make an exciting movie actually. Well done.
Comment Written 07-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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Delighted that this has brought back a few memories for you, June. Almost the last place we visited before returning to Australia was Chichenitza - but more of that later!
Comment from Heidi M
Great descriptions throughout this section.
I laughed at 'putting us up at the local flea-pit overnight'. You made a smart move to fly to Flores that day and avoid the flea-pit.
One spag:
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reply by the author on 07-Jan-2017
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Great descriptions throughout this section.
I laughed at 'putting us up at the local flea-pit overnight'. You made a smart move to fly to Flores that day and avoid the flea-pit.
One spag:
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Comment Written 06-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2017
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Very many thanks both for your review and your sharp eyes, Heidi. I should have known that one - the same root as hilarious.
Comment from lyenochka
Truly, an adventure. You're amazing travelers to be so flexible to change itinerary. I appreciate your description of the mimosa and gardener ants and the chicle tree. I would expect no less from such an avid gardener as yourself. Your last word is missing an 'i' as in "arrived."
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2017
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Truly, an adventure. You're amazing travelers to be so flexible to change itinerary. I appreciate your description of the mimosa and gardener ants and the chicle tree. I would expect no less from such an avid gardener as yourself. Your last word is missing an 'i' as in "arrived."
Comment Written 06-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2017
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Many thanks for picking up the typo in my last sentence. No matter how many times one reads through, there always seems to be one hidden away somewhere, and so glaringly obvious to a second pair of eyes! Much appreciated.
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Those typos and grammar issues always happen to me even with re-reading!
Comment from Pantygynt
My father told me not to go into the Royal Marnes as promotion was slow. Go nto the Ordnance Corps and you'll be a colonel in no time running a mobile bath unit. the same logic you have applied here and become the numero uno novelist in under a week. Poetry is far to crowded with worker ants.
Was this "At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
'Spanish ships of war at sea! We have sighted fifty-three!'" or another one of which Tennyson had never heard? My money's on the latter because I have a feeling the Azores are Mid-Atlantic.
I am enjoying this travelogue of yours greatly it seems that if you have time to spare you could end up anywhere.
Congratulations Number One.
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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My father told me not to go into the Royal Marnes as promotion was slow. Go nto the Ordnance Corps and you'll be a colonel in no time running a mobile bath unit. the same logic you have applied here and become the numero uno novelist in under a week. Poetry is far to crowded with worker ants.
Was this "At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
'Spanish ships of war at sea! We have sighted fifty-three!'" or another one of which Tennyson had never heard? My money's on the latter because I have a feeling the Azores are Mid-Atlantic.
I am enjoying this travelogue of yours greatly it seems that if you have time to spare you could end up anywhere.
Congratulations Number One.
Comment Written 06-Jan-2017
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2017
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I think that our parents usually try to talk us into more sensible decisions, and without much success! Flores was probably named by the Spanish in much the same way as the suburbs of Adelaide were named by the British. One of the local beach suburbs here is called Brighton. You are absolutely right - I decided to swim in a smaller pond but I see today that a bigger fish has sidelined me at the last minute!
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It is the silly season. Last year I was in the spotlight for a day or so. It's a good thing these rankings have little to do with quality and more about quantity and popularity.
