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About Me
- Barry
- A lil about me: I love to travel the tropics. Caribbean locales are my fav and Playa del Carmen, MX located appx. 1 hr south of Cancun is my literal "Home Away from Home." My wife Phyllis and I first visited Playa in 1987. A small unknown fishing village at the time- WOW how things change. We've been visiting ever since with some various other trips to the Caribbean thrown in for "spice." More about Playa later...... promise! For the first 42 yrs of my life I was a "self-will-run riot" kind of guy. I simply outgrew or grew tired of the "party-life" to the point of asking for help. Help arrived,I answered the door with open arms and have found a much more gratifying life-style. I became scuba certified in Belize about 11 yrs ago, began painting for the first time ever and landed on what I like to call "My Souls Chosen Path." I've been able to purchase a 2nd home in Playa and have been to some of the most exotic ports in the Caribbean both teaching and selling my "tropical-theme landscape paintings.
Packin it in. You know I've been doing this same drill several times each year for several years now and I still can't get it right. You would think it would be relative easy to pack for a warm sunny beach vacation,leaving the cool crisp nights of the 30's F behind but it's NOT! Just throw in 3 or 4 pair of shorts, flip-flops and some Tees and shove off - wrong!
ReplyDeleteI try to pack enough aspirin, neosporin, diaper rash, books and handi-wipes to keep any nursing home in stock for a long long time all for the less fortunate, struggeling people of my part of Mexico. Quintana Roo is the state just east - southeast of the Yucatan and most notable for it's high-rise hotels, fine restaurants and resorts of Cancun. I'm here to tell you there's a much much larger part of Quintana Roo that only the blessed get to know and it takes years to really see the beauty in a culture that is struggeling to survive so close to the Cancun of spring-breakers and lavish resorts. The area around Playa del Carmen and to the south with it's exquisite Caribbean turquoise blue waters is also home to thousands of people who are barely surviving while living in jungle palapas and in dire need of medicines and more. I try to make a tiny dent in the ongoing effort of so many to make their lives a little easier each time I visit. Maybe that's why I keep coming back.
I also like to bring dear friends a lil something too and O-yeah, I can't forget the paintings. I've come up with some pretty ingenius ways to bring these doodles of my pastime with me but that's another story.