Banana Leaves
Yucatecan recipes are hardly what people think of when they think of Mexican food, but I had tasted such glorious meals in restaurants in...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Dinner Party in the Jungle That Changed My Life
No place was like Luis Felipe’s and Molly’s. Hardly a year went by after my first visit to the jungle without another. Over the years...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
In the Mountains of Mexico, Where Souls of the Departed Gather
I met Tom Emmel while on vacation at a nature study center in Colorado. Tom was a world famous lepidopterist, a scientist who was the...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Seduced by the Jungle
It was 1983 when my friend Molly called from New York to say she was home from Cancun where she’d gone on a last minute junket with a...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Jesse: An Introduction to Mexico
Jesse was a great-looking Mexican in his late twenties who was hanging around outside our hotel looking to pick up passengers to take on...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
First Trip to Mexico, 1959
My mother loved our yearly summer family vacations. She’d stock up on guidebooks and buy new rayon outfits for herself, my sister and me...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
House Hunting
As soon as we decided to move to San Miguel we started searching on-line for houses, lusting after ones that are available for long-term...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Ex-pats
Last summer we rented an artist’s apartment in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. One day we saw the apartment owner getting out of his car, which...
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Julie Heifetz
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
No Hablo Español
I do not speak Spanish. Let me explain. My move to the jungle of Quintana Roo ,Mexico in 1998 came as a complete surprise. My friend...
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Julie Heifetz
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Don't Worry. Be Happy.
Jack found an incredible deal at AAA Travel Agency in Tysons, Virginia; for $517.12; six days, a standard size SUV with no extra charge...
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Julie Heifetz
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Uneasy Rider
We thought we had it all figured out. With two first-class frequent flyer seats reserved in the bulkhead of the plane for Jack and me,...
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Julie Heifetz
- Jan 21, 2021
- 2 min
Mexico, Really?
Jack came home from his part-time job and announced that he was going to retire in June. He’s seventy-eight-years-old, so I knew this...
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