All Inclusive Opportunity
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We stayed at the Royal Solaris Resort in Cancun last week and it was beautiful. To keep track of all the guests at this all-inclusive resort they give you a color coded bracelet when you check in. The bracelets are the same ones they used to use in hospitals and they are not well suited to the festive vacation atmosphere of the resort.
There is a nice opportunity for someone to start making improved resort bracelets. You could set up a factory in Mexico. I estimate that just the resorts on the Mayan Riviera use nearly a million bracelets a year. Don’t use vinyl or pvc use a nice molded polycarbonate that looks and feels luxurious.
Interestingly the bracelets that they used at the Solaris are manufactured by Precision Dynamics in San Fernando, California. They are clearly focused on the security issues not the appearance.
Lots more photos and stories from Cancun in the days ahead.
Simon Says Postcards 02/28/2012
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“Sewage knows no boundaries.”
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
Speaking about sewage flow in a divided city
Sababa! (Hebrew for “cool”)
Maps in Tijuana
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The opening of the Changing Boundaries map exhibit has been posted on the CECUT web site. You can help me a bit by going to the link and liking it on Facebook. Do it now.
If you are in the San Diego area this Friday night come across the border for a pretty cool bi-cultural event.
http://www.cecut.gob.mx/article/2312
To see this announcement on the CECUT website is pretty exciting. I have taken a collection of maps that I made 20 years ago and over the last three years I have leveraged it into an opportunity to talk about the history of the US-Mexico relationship at the biggest cultural institution in Tijuana. This is cool. Thanks to Charles Pope at USD for being the first person to see the potential of this exhibit and to Raul Rodriguez at CETYS for the introduction to CECUT.
Getting Old V
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You know you’re getting old when you get on a crowded bus and a young person offers you a seat….
And you take it.
February 23, 2012 Maxim
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“People have a tremendous capacity to rationalize, especially when infected by ideology.”
US Historian.
Cancun Mexico
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I have been to Cancun three times. The first was about thirty years ago with Nurit. The second was about fifteen years ago with Lillian and this year with Howard and Aty.
The changes have been remarkable. Both physically and in the nature of the experience. The first time we came there were just a few hotels on the beautiful beach. Now all ten miles of beach are lined with hotels, condos and private homes and it is still beautiful.
But the biggest and most encouraging change has been in the nature of the service. The workers here have changed from acting like wage slaves resentful of the rich outsiders to really helpful, caring, friendly people. All of them seem to be focused on quaking sure that the tourist economy keeps working. For example they have hundreds of busses that allow you to go anywhere from town to the end of the tourist zone for about a dollar. The drivers happily take any kind of money and make change. In LA or London if the driver had cash like that around he would be robbed hourly. In the flea market the hustlers tell lies and hawk crap just like before but they no longer physically confront you. And in the “all inclusive” hotel where we are staying everybody from the pool waiter to the room cleaner is trying really hard to speak English and make you happy.
It appear that an entire people have had a change of attitude. They are working communally to keep the tourism business going and it happened in a little more than a generation. This is really good news for the world. Angry, distrustful people don’t have to stay angry and distrustful.
Getting Old IV
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You know your getting old when some of the displays at the Bass Pro Shop excite you more than a pretty girl in a bikini.
The beautiful beach at Cancun from our hotel.
btw: All of the getting old jokes are collaborations with Howard R.
Simon Says Postcards 02/21/2012
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Free Postcards!
With info even better
“Experiences are
better than things.”
(a very nice Tel Aviv Hotel with free postcards)
Getting Old III
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You know you’re getting old when you wake up without any pain but you know it won’t last.
Photo from the Royal Solaris Resort, Cancun
Getting Old II
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You know you’re getting old when you bend down to tie your shoe and then look around to see if there is anything else you should do while you’re down there.
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