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Hurricane Dean Dampens Palenque
By Neil Ransom | August 21, 2007
The ruins looked just like this except not a blue in the sky and darker and with a lot of rain.
So here’s the scoop. The killer hurricane, Dean, forced us to cancel the Kelly family trip to Cancun. Kate and I were suposed to meet her family in Cancun tomorrow afternoon but Cancun officials have asked tourists not to come. So tickets have ben canceled and plans changed. As of now we are meeting in San Diego. Lucky for us BYU has changed our tickets so we can meet them there.
In the meantime Kate and I we have decided to visit Palenque, a famouse Mayan city that trived during the Early and Lateclassic periods (425 - 725 AD). Yesterday we arrived by bus…and by bus I mean food processor. I get car sick about as often as Bush admints he makes mistakes, but by the end of the ride I was ready to give up the morning meal. To make matters worse they ran a 6 hour “Die Hard” marathon…and the bus ride was only 5 hours…go figure. We crashed in the first hotel we could find (with a pool) and had a nice dinner, a lovely swim, and a crapy sleep on crappy beds. I will let Kate tell you more about this in her forthcoming entery.
This mroning we went to the ruins and man are they amazing. The only problem is we are experaancing a little of Dean’s furry and it has been raining all day. Just after we entered teh park some tourists were walking through the jungle when a giant tree branch nearly fell on them. Luckly they ran to safty, but it was crazy.
Tagged with: Hurricane-Dean • Palenque • Rain • storm • Travels • Vacation • Weather
August 21st, 2007 at 10:37 pm
i juts watched the video about imigration on youtube.com
there is something called : GREEN CARD FEVER!!!
i hope u talk about it
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:05 am
“…car sick about as often as Bush admits he makes mistakes”
Sorry about the first part, the second part was too good!
I’m glad the hurricane went from category 5 to 1! I was quite worried for the small villages, actually…