uncle phil

i'm gonna try to post some pics from our recent expedition to cancun...

this is where we stayed, the NH Riviera Cancun, taken from the rooftop tennis courts:



This would be one of the pools overlooking the beach:



Another view of the beach, from one of the bars:



Uncle Phil taking one of his morning cigar-walks:



The leaning lighthouse of Puerto Morales:



Two views of a beautiful beach condo that was destroyed during one of the many storms to hit the area:

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Uncle Phil establishing BP (Beach Position) early in the morning of our last day:

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.