Journal Comments - Grampies' Road to Ruins Winter 2018 - CycleBlaze

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From Grampies' Road to Ruins Winter 2018 by Steve Miller/Grampies

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Laurie Marczak commented on a photo in Day 14: Merida

Remember the bakery I took you to a few times in Houston? Seems like a similar kind of sweet/breadlike selection...

6 years ago
Laurie Marczak commented on a photo in Day 13: Izamal to Merida

Plausibly a pupusa or something analogous.

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Bill Shaneyfelt on a photo in Day 14: Merida

With those teeth, it looks like it bites!

6 years ago
Bill Shaneyfelt commented on a photo in Day 14: Merida

You got that right! Mammalian/reptilian/avian creature! Mostly avian. Defies any attempt to identify!

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Art Birkmeyer on a photo in Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Yes, there may be a few garbage free spots, but the general rule is otherwise. From our culture the garbage is despicable, but if you don't mind looking at it, maybe strewing it by the roadside is not worse than piling it in a landfill. Recycling probably is better, but of course the energy input to recycle is not zero.

Best would be to not use plastic bottles or bags. Not using bags is easy, because the people here have lots of handcrafted and durable bags. But I know on Joni's island when the U.N. put in "safe" piped water the people did not trust it and continued buying bottled water. You need not only the infrastructure but trustworthy people to operate it.

6 years ago
Art Birkmeyer commented on a photo in Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Nice to see sections of road garbage free.

6 years ago
Bruce Lellman commented on a photo in Day 13: Izamal to Merida

Is this where meconium ends up? Disguised as fruit?

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on Day 11: Chichen Itza and Piste

Yikes, such a different experience. As you can see from the photos, both visitors and vendors swarm all over the site, and the cenote is not accessible for jumping in to. If you return to Chichén Itzá it will have to be with all new objectives, unfortunately.

p.s. How did you get those accents so nicely into your message?

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

OK, we're on it!

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Eva Walters on Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Wow I really stepped into the middle of a big controversy. I'm with the Spanish. The stuff we got really was insipid, except that any cheese seems great to us here.

For other readers the crux of the matter:

There is Spanish and Mexican manchego cheese. "One is a revered sheep’s milk cheese, as Spanish as acorn-fed pigs, a famously insane knight errant or the napkin-strewn floor of a tapas bar.
The other is a mild cow’s milk cheese, sometimes bulked out with vegetable oil, that is sold cheaply in Mexican supermarkets and stuffed into quesadillas."

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

No but it should help with learning the month names and days of the week. We like Miercoles, when the stamps come to the post office!

6 years ago
Art Birkmeyer commented on a photo in Day 13: Izamal to Merida

WOW! Was it really that cold out?
No gloves?

6 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Sorry guys-not sure what part of the day you found so great. Although it was interesting and fun, it was also waaay too long for us.

6 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Looks like a great day, Grampies! This is the first one that looked like a place that could really work for us. Keep it up -you might push it onto our list yet.

6 years ago
Eva Walters commented on Day 12: Chichen Itza to Izamal

Regarding Manchego cheese, you might find this article from today's Guardian interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/spain-mexico-trade-deal-manchego-cheese-dispute

6 years ago