DAILY PHOTO: Iglesia de San Servacio, Valladolid

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Photograph of the Iglesia de San Servacio, a Catholic church in Valladolid, Mexico that was rebuilt in the 1700's from its original founding in  1545.

Mayan High Priest Limerick

Photograph of El Castillo at the Mayan site of Chichen Itza, Mexico.
A newly promoted Mayan High Priest --
queasy, but charged with bloodletting next feast.
Suggested a new style:
Lymph, sweat, milk, tears, or bile
Were offerings that made his odds of fainting decrease.

Iguana Limerick

Photograph of an Iguana on the rocks overlooking Tulum Beach.
In Tulum, a lazy old Iguana
was asked to leave but said, "I don't wanna!"
They threated and chided -
reasoned and derided -
'til it left, bribed with good marijuana.

DAILY PHOTO: Structure 10 Ruins, Ek Balam

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Photograph of ruins of Structure 10 (seemingly bleached white) taken at Ek Balam, a site of Mayan ruins in the Mexican Yucatan.

PROMPT: Live Anywhere

Daily writing prompt
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Someplace inexpensive, with beaches and hikeable hilly / mountainous terrain within a reasonable distance, and where beer prices are not disproportionately high vis-a-vis the general cost of living. FYI — I call the latter the “stick-up-the-bum” index because if beer prices are relatively high, it usually means they are heavily sin-taxed (it’s not an expensive product to make,) and so disproportionately high beer prices suggest the society is trying to micromanage personal behavior. I may or may not want a beer (I’ll want one,) but I prefer to live in a society with a live-and-let-live mentality. Candidates exist in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Central Asia / Caucus region.

MEXICO LIMERICK

DAILY PHOTO: Tulum Beach

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DAILY PHOTO: El Castillo, Chichen Itza

DAILY PHOTO: Blue & White on Isla Mujeres

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Tulum