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Acapulco--More Than Beaches and Banana Boats

Don Karp, February 24 2018

The comments on my last blog were contradictory. Do you think I need to offer more positive views? My friend Jake is posting this as a guest. As a part-time resident of Acapulco, Mexico, he has a more positive viewpoint than mine. See his bio at the end of this Letter. When Mexicans and international visitors think of Acapulco, beaches, water...

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Places

Beaches of Mexico

Don Karp, October 28 2017

Not long after I moved to Mexico (2003), I spent two weeks in Tulum. It’s the best for swimming I’ve visited. Hector and Alba, my hosts at El Capitan, Chacahua Beaches of Mexico

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Culture

Fiasco with Federales

Don Karp, September 30 2017

The red arrow points to Zipolite, the beach in Oaxaca where I go frequently (more about that in the next blog). Fiasco with the Federales At three AM the red-eye bus going home from the coast ends at a service control stop. The authorities decide my papers are not acceptable and I take my backpack and get into the

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