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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...

Julie Heifetz
Mar 3, 20213 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 27, 20213 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 23, 20213 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 20, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 16, 20213 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 13, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 5, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Jan 28, 20212 min read
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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,...

Julie Heifetz
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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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...

Julie Heifetz
Jan 21, 20212 min read
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