Besides clearing the land to make it productive, I had to immediately start clearing a path for a new 3 kilometer road.  As much as I wish I could have used humans for the work, the road clearing demanded a backhoe with a large, very large, hydraulic hammer on the back to break up large boulders that were in the proposed roadway.

 June 16, 2022 My first project finished.   I didn't get to exact-matching-before-photo.  I regret that. But this photo is pretty much standing in the sand spot as the groomed-photo below it.   Big difference.  It's the land that would be viewed from the front porch of the house when I finish it.  I wanted to see what I'd be looking at each morning to know the house was the one I wanted to update.  As you could see in the beginning posts, there were two to choose from.  I choose the rock-faced casa.  This will be what I'll look out on, to the left, each morning.  Now I'm working on the right-looking view that has a lot of palms in it. For the past 30 years of my life, developing land, I'm always amazed at the beauty of land after it has been trimmed and pruned and brought back from abandon and neglect.   Nature always seeks to go wild. And I believe that one of the mandates from God that man received was to "take dominion" over it.  In this case, it is

 June 6, 2022   My pueblo is named Mayapan Municipality.   But that is not to be confused with the ruins site of Mayan Pyramids and buildings in the Mayapan Archeological Zona about 30 km north of the pueblo.  The ruins of Uxmal are about 60 km west, and the ruins of Chichen Itza are about 120 km east. At the Mayapan Ruins you will see a few ancient sites, but the largest collection in the Yucatan is in both Uxmal and Chichen Itza