Trip to Ticul

Doug and I have been so busy with real estate lately that we almost forgot to take some time for ourselves and enjoy paradise! So....Thursday we got up early and headed to Ticul. Ticul is village about an hour away from Merida, the capitol of the Yucatan. It is known for it's handmade pottery and shoes. Now since I've moved to Mexico I don't have much use for shoes anymore, flip flops are normally on my feet, but pottery, I can never have enough of that. It took us a couple of hours to get there, we didn't really know where we were going and Mexican maps leave a little to be desired. But it was a great trip, didn't get lost at all and saw alot of the Mexican countryside instead of the beach which is the norm for us. When we arrived, of course we didn't know where to go and I had forgotten to look up how to say "pottery" in Spanish. So we ended up at the market, very cool, lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and delicious blender drinks but no pottery! Then I decide in my infinite wisdom that they must be selling the pottery in the town centre, good idea, but no pottery. Finally we had a young Mexican man take pity on us, he jumped in our truck and took us to the street that had all the pottery shops on it. There was shop after shop, filled to the limit with handcrafted pots, figures, and everything imaginable that could be made of clay. We stayed as long as we could, our truck wouldn't hold another pot and then headed back to the beaches of Chelem. Hope you enjoy the pictures of our trip and all the goodies that Ticul offers!