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by Jonathan Look | Jul 21, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel
I try to keep safety in mind everywhere I go. I lock doors, I use hotel safes wherever possible and try not to carry too much that anyone would want that could make me a target. I am not paranoid, and I go almost everywhere, but I use common street sense. One area...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 17, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel
It is only a short distance from San Cristobal de las Casas to Puerto Arista on the Pacific coast of Chiapas but these are definitely two different worlds. When my somewhat insane friend Wes Nations and I left San Cristobal it was in the mid-50s with a little bit of...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 11, 2012 | Adventure, Food, Mexico, Street Food, Travel
Snacking in the walking areas of San Cristobal de las Casas is simple. Street vendors carry baskets, set up carts and open their storefronts offering a variety of foods just waiting to be discovered. From weird to comfortable to distressingly familiar there is...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 6, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel, Video
Whale Shark Boat from Isla Holbox in Mexico I was out to snorkel with Whale Sharks in Mexico, not take a cruise and after an hour and a half of riding on the waters off Isla Holbox in a 12 person boat riding on choppy seas, I was ready to be on site. My companions, a...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 5, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel
Isla Holbox (pronounced: whole bosh) is one of the few remaining unspoiled islands along Mexico’s Yucatan coast. Three hours west but a world away from Cancun, Isla Holbox is a gem known primarily as a place to see Whale Sharks, but it is more than that. Development...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 4, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel
When my friend Jon Nieporte of Foundation Escalera and I decided that we wanted to go see the Whale Sharks migrating off the coast from Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula I was excited. But, Jon was already in Tulum and I had to figure out a way to get from San Cristobal de...
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by Jonathan Look | Jun 25, 2012 | Adventure, Food, Mexico, Street Food, Travel
All over the central area of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico are these little carts selling Cervecita Dulce or sweet beer. It is one of the things that you see every day but never think to try. I asked a few friends what it was and they had never...
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by Jonathan Look | Jun 18, 2012 | Adventure, Mexico, Travel
It was just a simple conversation. My friend Richard and I were having a beer on the Guadalupe Andador in San Cristobal de las Casas when he casually mentioned that a few weeks before he had rented a bicycle and rode from San Cristobal through the mountains to Chiapa...
