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The Times Square-ification of Downtown Progreso

Presumably as part of the beautification of downtown Progreso that we wrote about recently, the city recently erected this electronic billboard on Calle 31, right next to the school, the municipal building, our office, and the town square. Its placement seemed odd, and its purpose unclear…until the electricians unceremoniously lit it off last night. It [...]

22Feb2008 | Malcolm | 1 comment | Continued
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The Police in Hillsborough, Florida are Amazing

“If they’re trying to figure out if someone’s in a wheelchair or not, there are many other ways you can do it besides dumping somebody on their face.”

True words, Brian.

13Feb2008 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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La Tratto, Dehydration, Star Medica, & You: A Cautionary Tale

This article was supposed to be a review of La Tratto restaurant, the hip Italian eatery that makes up part of the trifecta in the Trotter family empire of restaurants, so let’s start there and pretend that the evening progressed normally.
La Tratto is located at #479C on the Prolognacion de Montejo, between the glorieta with the [...]

12Feb2008 | Malcolm | 8 comments | Continued
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Gringos Restaurant Closes Doors: What Went Wrong?

Gringos Restaurant opened in Chelem in February of last year, with an advertising blitz and the announcement, “Finally… American food in Chelem.” The restaurant appeared to be doing everything right. They had the menu, the spectacular beachfront location, and the much-needed community events and features, including nightly movie screenings on the beach, karaoke parties, huge [...]

29Jan2008 | Malcolm | 8 comments | Continued
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My Nephew is a Genius

My nephew, Josh, is a genius. He made this first experiment in stop motion, and chose a killer soundtrack. Check it out, after the jump.

23Jan2008 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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Dropped In Featured in Guadalajara Reporter Newspaper

We are honored to have been featured in both the online and print editions of the Guadalajara newspaper, in an article entitled, “Expat bloggers add fresh perspective to Mexico.” In it, reporter Meredith Veto covers the explosion of expatriate bloggers who are documenting their experiences in Mexico online. They’ve even got our picture at the top of [...]

18Jan2008 | Malcolm | 10 comments | Continued
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RSVP Now for the “Latin American Blogger Meetup”

We missed this before, because we weren’t tuned in to Cancun Canuck’s blog until today, when we were both featured in the same newspaper article. But they’ve got a great idea, and one that we all should’ve been doing a long time ago: A Latin American Blogger Conference. Many of us only know each other [...]

18Jan2008 | Malcolm | 1 comment | Continued
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Progreso’s Facelift Nears Completion

In the beginning of December, the town of Progreso took the very unexpected move of suddenly ripping up nearly all of the city streets, without any advance notice or warnings to local area small businesses. At the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and for small stores and shops without the highest profit margins in [...]

18Jan2008 | Malcolm | 2 comments | Continued
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Our Renoir Wedding Reception

Jillian’s aunt pointed out that our raucous wedding reception at the Mambo Cafe in Merida resembled a modern-day drunken Mexican Renoir painting…more specifically, his 1881 Luncheon of the Boating Party. You be the judge:

18Jan2008 | Malcolm | 2 comments | Continued
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Introducing DroppedIn: The Magazine

Something just wasn’t sitting right about our last redesign a few months ago, and I couldn’t figure out what it was. After staring long and hard at the site for the last couple of days, it finally hit me: our intentions and our content had outgrown the blog format. After living here in the Yucatan [...]

17Jan2008 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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Zen and the Art of Combi Riding

With our Jeep in the shop, anxiously awaiting new tie rods to be shipped from the United States, we have found ourselves making our Chelem to Progreso commute on combis. Combis are a kind of community shuttle, usually a white van that explores the full spectrum of maintenance from sleek, air-conditioned new models to older, [...]

17Jan2008 | Malcolm | 1 comment | Continued
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Dropping Back in After Two Weeks in America

We got back to our home in Chelem last night at around 10PM, to find no electricity and no gas. Things are kind of in chaos today, but as soon as we get our heads back above water, we’ll let you know all about the recent haps. 

9Jan2008 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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