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Back in Margaritaville

Posted on March 13, 2010 | 3 Comments

I may bristle at Jimmy Buffett’s cutesy, gettin’-drunk-in-the-sun lyrics — aren’t his fans the same parents that didn’t let us do that? – but the man knows how to live, sunburn notwithstanding. Case in point: Puerto Morelos, Mexico.

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You Heard it Here First: Cheap Charm in Puerto Morelos, Mexico

Posted on March 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Back in October, I wrote about a grass-roofed cottage for rent - $380 a week! – in the quaint beach town of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, just south of Cancun in a post called Love Shack. The New York Timesrecently ran a big piece about how the town has managed to keep developers at bay and held onto family run shops, B&Bs and fish shacks. Check it out. (Just don’t go and build a resort there, please.)

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