Mérida escape trip; Tekax and a jungle get-away to an undisclosed location

Our first stop on our get-away excursion trip was to visit friends in colonial Tekax, Yucatan.
Long time friends, Carmen and Carlos are being presented a 2013 edition of our Yucatán’s Magic: Mérida Side Trips travel book where they and Tekax are featured. Carmen is now the mayor of Tekax and her husband Carlos, a life-time resident is a hotel and restaurant owner.
Our books, Yucatán’s Magic: Mérida Side Trips and Yucatan for Travelers: Valladolid to Tulum are now in the top five of Mexico travel books. 

May and June are normally the hottest times of the year here in northwestern Yucatan with daily temperatures of a scorching 40ºC, more then 100ºF.
But, this year all bets on the weather are off.
Some say the fact that the Gulf Stream has slowed by 30% trapping the earth’s heat in the tropics is the reason we had no winter or spring.
One night last winter, our coldest, it got down to 14ºC or 58ºF and every day it was over 20ºC or 70ºF.
Our gain was surely someone else’s loss. Northern latitudes like Europe saw a cool winter and spring.
Mérida in northwestern Yucatan has been generally tinder dry with no rain from November through May…not this year.
Rain driven by tropical waves normally begin the first week of June and coincide with hurricane season…not this year.
In second week of May Yucatan magically was transformed, as leafy green vegetation ablaze with flowers seemingly appeared over night with unseasonable rain.
Leaving Mérida in May and June when daily temperatures reach 40ºC or 104ºF makes me feel better, but, for Jane it is imperative because of heat-stress and her
asthma.
 
Cool, quiet country roads and fresh air made our Mérida get-away perfect.

As I write this back here in Mérida this lovely July day the fickle weather is treating us right.  We are enjoying low early morning temperatures of 21ºC or 71ºF and our daily highs have been in the low 30ºC range  punctuated by refreshing afternoon thunder showers. If it stayed like this we would never leave.
Summertime in Mérida is positively delightful in our self-ventilating eco-house. We haven’t needed to use a fan in our eco-house since our return because the thermal-siphon air flow keeps us comfortable without using any electric.
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