Tourist FYI

New E-Gates at Cancun Airport

December 31, 2025 0

For years, the most dreaded part of a Cancún vacation wasn’t the flight or the sunburn—it was the immigration hall at Cancún International Airport (CUN). Stories of two-hour lines snaking back up the escalators were the norm. Enter the E-Gates.  These automated kiosks have quietly revolutionized the arrival experience, turning [……]

News

New Cell Phone Rules

December 31, 2025 0

Starting January 9, 2026, all Mexican mobile phone numbers, both prepaid and contract, must be linked to an individual or legal entity through official identification. While postpaid lines already require ID and some prepaid SIMs already ask for identification at the point of sale, the difference now is that registration [……]

Culture

Chichén Itzá ≠ Uxmal

December 31, 2025 0

Chichén Itzá is a Wonder of the Modern World, and for good reason. But for many travelers, the experience has become a test of endurance. Between the three-hour drive from Cancun, the oppressive heat, and the armies of vendors blowing jaguar whistles, the magic becomes a bit jaded. But what [……]

Nature and Critters

All Quiet in the Peninsula

December 31, 2025 0

The Quiet Season: Why Yucatán Was Spared in 2025’s Unpredictable Hurricane Year When the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended, we breathed a collective sigh of relief. For the first time in five years, the Peninsula had escaped relatively unscathed from the annual six-month gauntlet of tropical weather that typically [……]

Tourist FYI

Social Media Herd Mentality, Tulum Edition: A Perspective

December 31, 2025 0

In many ways, Tulum provides us insights into the perils and pitfalls of herd mentality and group thinking that is so prevalent on social media today. Allow me to explain. I have been going to Tulum every year now for 25 years. That much consistency, over that long of a [……]

Health

Hot Lemon Water: Any Health Benefits?

December 31, 2025 0

Q: I’ve heard that drinking hot lemon water first thing in the morning can have various health benefits. Is that true? In a video on TikTok, a woman has a lemon in one hand and a mug in the other as she espouses the benefits of her beverage: Within a week [……]

News

Renewing Your Driver’s License in Tulum – 2026

December 31, 2025 0

In 2024 the process for renewing a driver’s license changed.  States, rather than municipalities, are now running it, and the process is smooth and quick ‒ just follows the steps. Step 1:  Collect your documents.   CURP certificate – brand new printout Passport and residency card (+ 1 copy each) Current [……]

Tourist FYI

A Look at AA’s Integrated Operations

December 31, 2025 0

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers. AA Flight 27 was hundreds of miles out to sea on its way from Los Angeles to Tokyo this month when a passenger had a medical emergency. [……]

Health

Sunday Puzzle: P-A-R-T-Y Words and Names

December 31, 2025 0

The Weekly Quiz From NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz                                                   https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/g-s1-103243/sunday-puzzle Today I’ve brought a game of ‘Categories’ based on the word “party.” For each category I give, [……]