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Monday on the road to Bacalar with stops at
The Pemex station and Limones (a town with children)

↓ Pemex station. This boy washed our very dirty windows and we gave him a coin. ↓
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80 window washer

↓ Drinks purchased in the gas station’s convenience store.
Joe liked the Café Ole.
I was impressed with the Kelloggs All Bran — yes it is a drink! ↓
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81 drinks

↓ Restrooms at the station and attendant selling toilet paper (for a couple of pennies). ↓
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82 restooms

↓ I liked the way they had posted the local emergency phone numbers. ↓
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83 phone numbers

Late afternoon stop in Limones.

↓ A typical house and yard in the town of Limones. ↓
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84 house in Limones

↓ Josh photographing Limones’ own Maya temple. ↓
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85 Josh and limones temple

↓ Three neighborhood boys came to greet us ↓
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86   -3 boys

↓ Manuel, Xavier, and Mario ↓
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87 closeup

↓ Then a couple of girls appeared: Anita and Abby? ↓
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90 girls

↓ They encouraged us to climb ↓
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91 climbing kids

↓ So we did ↓
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93 climbing in L

↓ To the top. (Here I am just showing off the telephoto on my nice new camera.) ↓
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94 us on top

↓ The view was great! Note the little rectangular houses with the oval (hip) roofs, and one without its thatch. ↓
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96 view 1

↓ A caved-in roof. Evidence of Hurricane Dean? ↓
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98 view 2

↓ Water tower from up high — right next to and a little taller than the town’s pyramid ↓
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799 water tower 1




↓ A big move toward a better water supply in Mexico ↓
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09 water tower 2



↓ We were able to read: “for a future with water,” but not the other slogan. (None of us speak Spanish.) ↓
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11 water tower 3



↓ More kids appeared before we left, bringing us fruit and flowers.
These are 3 handsome young people of Limones. Note that the day is getting late and we are not in Bacalar yet! ↓
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12 —3 young people

↓ Down the road aways we saw this typical colorful cemetery ↓
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14 cemetery


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