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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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SKY Satellite TV Installation a Snap; Service Less Than Awesome

Television coverage out at the beach is a serious issue, and one that we hadn’t tackled. We haven’t had any TV service since we’ve lived here, and it was time to get serious about getting some on-couch entertainment installed.
When we first lived here, during our first couple of months at the fantastic Suites Del Sol, we [...]

5Dec2007 | Malcolm | 9 comments | Continued
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Renovating Our Beach House, Volume 2

In volume two of what is sure to be a 4,000 volume set, we thought we should mention that another step in making our beach house more livable has been completed. You may remember way back in May, when we started by adding on to the kitchen and bashing giant holes into the living room. [...]

30Nov2007 | Malcolm | 6 comments | Continued
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29Nov2007 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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Great, Now I Need a Whole New Last Name

My last name is “Bedell,” and that’s always something I’ve been pretty comfortable with. In my family, we pronounce this name, “Beh-DELL,” with the emphasis on the end. To me, it sounds kind of regal, even when telemarketers in the US used to get the pronunciation all wrong, asking for, “Mr. Beddle,” with the sound [...]

28Nov2007 | Malcolm | 7 comments | Continued
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A Quick Note About Those Big Bottles of Water

You know those big, big bottles of water, that you tilt into the top of a cooler or dispenser? They’re heavy, and often, depending on what kind of dispenser you are inverting them on, there isn’t a lot of room to pour water in before it starts sloshing all over the place.  As a kid, [...]

26Nov2007 | Malcolm | 7 comments | Continued
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