Pepper's Blog

Today is a historic day.  My blog has now gotten over 1000 spams.  Now that’s exciting, okay not really, but I wonder how many spam comments I’ll get on this spam post.  I should keep track.  The most common spammed post is my corks post, which is a picture.

My ode to spam didn’t get any spam messages, except from Ryan.

Bonampak: Temple

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This site is well known for it’s murals which still retain their original paint color. My camera isn’t the best so we used Ryan’s camera. Sorry I don’t have the pics on here. The colors ranged from green, to sky blue, and rust red.

In order to get here we had to switch vehicles into a rattley old van owned by the Lacandon people.  The backseat wasn’t bolted in, so Ryan and I bumped around a lot.  That night we stayed at a “Lacandon Village”, which was not traditional village and not the village experience toted about in the travel guides.

Yesterday I finished the last book that I started during our vacation; Isle of the Dead .  I really enjoyed it.  It is an older science fiction/fantasy book, but it was a stand alone which I liked.  I would read more of Julia Gray’s older books if I could find them.

Now I’m going to start Collin’s final book in the Hunger Games Triology; Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
I’ve been waiting for it to come out, so I’m really excited. I’ll let you know how I like it. I didn’t like book 2 Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) , as much as 1 The Hunger Games , but I’m really interested to see how she finishes it and what happens with the main character.

Degano’s History

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I finished another puzzle today, but this one I had help on. I had begun it when I lived in China but realized my table was way too small so I packed it up and shipped to Alaska where I have a nice big counter. I brought it out right before the wedding and had help, especially from Ryan’s mom Barb. Now it’s finally finished and let me tell you it was a bit challenging simply because I had to scrutinize the box going from decade to decade in search of the right area.

It has all its pieces (2000) and is in great shape.  I’ve been trying to find it on the internet to sell it, but can’t find it anywhere.  If you are interested, I’d sell it for around $30.00 plus shipping.

Yaxchilan: Maze Entrance

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The entrance into the Yaxhilan site.

Yaxchilan: Amazing Architecture

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Look at the top level of this temple. I hadn’t seen this style before this trip and this was by far the most massive, in tact, comb-like architecture I had seen. It was amazing.

Yaxchilan: Interior Maze

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The main entrance at Yaxchilan was a dark spooky maze that was awesome.