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The One Shot I Didn’t Get
I knew I would fall ill at some point on my trip around the world. Somewhere on the way, there was going to be an ice cube, a mosquito bite or some questionable meat that was going to get me into trouble.
I took all the precautions. I went to the travel doctor. I got the shots (Hep A, Typhoid, Yellow Fever vaccines). I got the preventative medications to protect myself from altitude sickness, malaria and Delhi belly (or as they call it in Mexico, Moctezuma’s Revenge). I watched how and where my food was made. I avoided salad for months at a time. I thought of everything.
Except Chicken Pox.
The Pyramids of Chichen Itza
When you say “pyramid”, most people assume you are talking about the big three, the Great Pyramids in Egypt. They imagine windswept Saharan desert, camels, the Nile and the Sphinx. They do not imagine jaguars, jungle, grasslands, and cenotes.
Same Skies Above 