Belize, Mexico & Cuba Photos

Don't mess with our crew!

grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Roadside snack during cane season; a preview of things to come in Cuba?

Bienvenidos en Mexico (aka the entrance to Mayaland)

Feeding the agouti, Fred sacrifices his treasured road snacks to local fauna and opens himself up to endless rodent-related ridicule

Andy and Fred enjoying a last Belizian Breaky in the jungle

Roving South Asian money changer finds a customer

Mexico - where transportation trouble can mean a napping opportunity. Carneys taking a break from their hectic road schedule

Not as expansive as the ruins in Gautamaula's Tikal, but unbelievably ornate

Fred bravely (huh!) descends staircase at Uxmal -- "Look! No hands"

Wow, how many acres can you slash and burn with that?

Take thee to a nunnery, Fred looks down from the temple of the Magician in Uxmal

Cha'ac before and after a nose job

View from the balcony of our yoga room

The (not) crowded autopista; rules do not abound.

Priniciples of the California Clean Air Act do not apply in Cuba; note the horsecart and bicycle lost in the plume behind this multi-purpose vehicle.

At least there are wheels on this vehicle; later we encounter the "Ox-Sled" a popular form of rural transportation.

Cubans should be admired for their creativity. Coping is a skill they seem to learn early and sharpen on a daily basis. Here one fifties relic towing another as the towee waves for the camera.

"Only those who fight will conquer" declares this sign. The revolution lives.

What kind of car is this? Part Chevy, hood ornament from something else, tail lights from a Ford; every vehicle is a collage.

Su - gar. Still not sure of the point? "Communists and cane make a sweet combo?"

Yanqui Imperialists - yes! The Almighty Dollar seems to rule everywhere.

Generosity pervades - rum toting friend

Transportation in Cuba

A representative sampling of what is to be found on the shelves at the local department store. Goods from outside of Cuba can only be found in the dollar stores.

Tobacco remains a staple of the local economy

Our riding partner, Enrique, joins us for a cerveza at a paladar (private restaurant).

Our maid and laundress brandishing the reward of a hard day's labor.

A huge painting of prehistoric life created by an understudy of Diego Rivera serves as a tourist attraction

The camelbus, another in a series of unusual cuban transportation modes

Andrew, always over-anxious when it comes to coffee, pictured here at a coffee plantation near las Terrazas.

Relaxing at the water hole

Havana: a cross between Lebanon and Bucharest?

These giant cartoons decrying the inequity of the Helms-Burton Act grace the side of a building directly accross from Havana's premier tourist hotel: "Heil Helms" -- my sentiments exactly

Havana's old world elegance tarnished by decay and smog still shines

"Operator, I'd like to place a person-to-person call to Mr. Helms"

Self-cleaning -not-, notice that those are coals in the pizza oven

"Frankenbox" saves the day, Bikes safely packed for export to Mexico

This is not an aqueduct, but the Pope thought it was

Mexicans trying to explain Mayan culture dubbed this observatory the "Snail"; go figure.

ahhhhhh! The view from the Rocamor.