Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

After a fitful new night at the Abrazarse Retreat Healing Center and B&B (during which I only managed 2.5 hrs sleep after moving the too soft mattress to the floor) and discovering the hard way in the middle of the night that though the toilet had a lid, it had no seat, I checked out at 7 a.m. and headed back to Merida. (It being Carnaval there no rooms in any of the other hotels)
Upon hearing my plight my hosts there invited me to join them on what I assumed was an already planned excursion to their beach house in Chicxulub.
It became clear however that this was all strictly for my benefit and when we ascertained that the lab was closed on Mon.& Tues. they invited me to spend the next 3 days here alone.
I’m in a sleepy little beach town made famous around the world for lending its name to the crater made by the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs. (not counting those that survived as birds, of course)

The owner of this home that was numbers built I’m the 1600s invited me in to look around at the renovation.
As the blocks on the corner and the door jamb and lintel show, it was not only the Church that disassembled the Mayan cities.
A guide told me that oftentimes these renovations find stones with Mayan glyphs on the hidden side.
Using classical buildings as quarries has happened throughout the world. The Great Wall, the Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, and the Coliseum, and countless others have been used by successors to build newer cities.

My first couple of hours at the coastal town of Progreso were spent randomly walking the 12 blocks from the bus stop to the beautiful (though as I would discover later-unsleepable) Abrazarse Life Retreat Center and B&B.

I bought something for my daughter there.

Near where I am living is a wonderful and much used neighborhood park. It has a skate park, a toddler-size amusement park, a large assembly area, and paths where a very much traditional-style ‘promenade’ is carried out every Friday evening. (though without the watchful eyes of las abuelas chaperones) .
It has a large central plaza made of reused bricks. Many of which were made by Metropolitan Block of Canton, Ohio. I was left wondering about the course those bricks made to end up here.

“Onix” is a wonderful store full of carved stone, (jasper, onyx, quartz, etc.) that I pass by on the bus every day on my way to work and on my way home today o decided to drop in. The large white sphere is a lamp. It’s skin is about 1 cm thick.

Maybe all three. Who knows?

Who knew Joss Whedon was so big south of the Rio Grande,?

I very much like that things aren’t just used once and discarded.
They reuse things within an inch of their lives. They clean the duck tape with acetone and patch the bags until they’re threadbare. Not just a good budgetary move but a good environmental one as well.

The woman in the middle of the last pic is the grad student in charge.