travel · Quintana Roo, Mexico · Dec 26, 2021 – Dec 31, 2021

A week in Quintana Roo

Cenotes, murals, and a painted sign that turned out to be instructions. The last week of 2021, spent mostly underground or on the road.

A cenote seen from the rim: a wooden platform over clear turquoise water at the bottom of a limestone cavern, with swimmers below — Looking down into a cenote from the rim.

Swimmers in the turquoise water of a cenote, lit by a shaft of daylight from an opening in the cavern roof above — Down at the water, where the light comes in through the roof.

A wide mural of a kneeling figure and a large hand holding a green glass bottle, painted in bright colours — A mural on the first day.

A wooden post covered in colourful arrows pointing to cities around the world, against a blue sky with clouds — Every direction at once.

A green street sign reading Live Your Own Experiences on a pole beside a dusty road, with a motorbike and a person nearby — A sign on a side road on the last day of the year: "Live your own experiences." It reads like a fridge magnet at first. After a week of cenotes and back roads it reads like instructions.