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All Posts Tagged With: "progreso"

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Expattitude

Imagine the coolest person you’ve ever seen. Dial that back about 26%. Drop this beautiful badass into a daytime street scene in a busy Mexican port. That’s me. Imagine me walking. Up the sidewalk on April 1st. The sky is blue, the sidewalk packed with vendors and vacationers. I found a parking space. This alone [...]

1Apr2010 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
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Waiting For My Man

We’ve had one norte after the next blowing through our port, the skies are opaque gray and all the Yucatecans and casi Yucatecans are bundled up and battened down. We drove into Progreso to run errands while the help leveled rubble and planted and washed our pots and pans. I picked up our laundry and was waiting for [...]

17Feb2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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At Tamba Juice in Progreso, the Customer is King

The dearth of good things to eat and drink in Progreso has prompted many a ranting post on this site. The weather’s getting sweltering, and that too contributes to our huddling in the office, grumbling and sticky. Reader and fellow Brooklyn refugee Missy suggested that we to try the newest spot in Progreso, Tamba Juice, [...]

5May2008 | Jillian | 7 comments | Continued
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Another Hungry Mouth to Feed in Progreso

We live at the beach and work in a funky little port town. While Merida is cool and cosmopolitan, and capable of satisfying almost every base consumer desire, out here you have to be craftier. If you’re looking for random foodstuffs from home, such as Skippy peanut butter, Almond Joy bars, Heinz cocktail sauce, Chunky [...]

20Feb2008 | Jillian | 6 comments | Continued