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After taking a break from maintaining a travel blog and website for nearly ten years, I decided to relaunch Burn Up The Road in May, 2024. During that time, a great deal has changed.I traveled to many more countries, forty in as of 2024, and after living as an expat-teacher for seven years, I reestablished myself in the United States, traveling the American west extensively. Wanting to post to the web again, I realized I have a large backlog of photos and experiences to write about. For the sake of time, and holding my interest, I decided to relaunch the site incrementally, starting with the latest travel experience first. I will post old content, with any necessary updates and edits second. Travel experiences I did not write about at the time, I will post last.
The internet has changed dramatically since I felt inclined to make my last travel post nearly a decade ago. The most ubiquitous being the commercialization and consolidation of the internet; travel sites and blogs are no exception. How people access content online has also changed dramatically; by late 2023, over half of all online content was viewed on phones, rather than PC or laptop monitors. I had to take these factors into consideration when I decided to relaunch Burn Up the Road.
Hopefully, visitors will enjoy the content posted here, and perhaps be inspired to visit some of the places highlighted.
Latest Trip: Yucatan, Mexico, Spring 2024
In the Spring of 2024, we visited the Yucatán region of Mexico, our fortieth country. We stayed in the city of Merida, which is situated near several ancient Mayan city ruins, including Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Xcambo, as well as haciendas from the 18th through early 20th centuries.
We visited the ancient Mayan city ruins of Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Xcambo. These cities, as well others like them in the region, are monuments to the peak of Mayan culture and power in the region, from approximately 250 AD through 900 AD. Although these Mayan city-states collapsed over time for a number of reasons, contrary to popular myth, the Mayan people did not ‘disappear’. Today, the approximately eight million descendants of the ancient Mayans still live in the region, both in the countryside and in the cities.
