North America

June 3, 2012

Isla Holbox is Yucatan’s anti-Cancun

The archway from my Villa Delfines leading to Isla Holbox

By John Henderson Special to Tribune Newspapers ISLA HOLBOX, Mexico – I watched the dolphins swim and play and feed in the little lagoon a 10-minute boat ride from my beach hut. If they kept swimming, turned the Yucatan Peninsula’s northeast corner and swam south, in 60 miles they’d hit Cancun. Sixty miles? After one […]

February 17, 2012

A Moveable Feast: Yucatan cuisine makes up for Cancun’s buffet of debauchery

About the only thing Mayan in Cancun is the occasional hotel maid. She must look at the Sigma Chi rush chairman stumbling around in a sombrero and wonder what has happened to her proud, 3,500-year-old culture.

Where she finds it is the same place I did: the dining table.

February 24, 2010

Tim Horton’s doughnuts are Olympic gold

I’ve found myself falling into a certain morning routine here at the Winter Olympics. Every day, it’s the same thing.

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