Maureen Dowd Just Wants Some Nachos
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.24.05 | 12:43 AM ET
New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd recently took a break from pointing out that the emperor has no clothes in order to travel with her sister Peggy to Aqua, “Cancun’s first boutique-style luxury hotel.” Dowd’s story about their experience in Mexico ran in Sunday’s paper, and it’s just what I expect from the Pulitzer Prize winner: Edgy, funny and a damn good read. Dowd swims, but not with dolphins: “If there’s one thing I detest,” she writes, “it’s swimming with dolphins.” Dowd gets a spa treatment with an ambitious aim: “[T]he hotel had seemed like a spectacularly beautiful but unapproachable woman sitting alone in an empty restaurant,” she writes. “But here was the promise of Soul.” And Dowd eats, but not what she was hoping for: “This was upgraded, contemporary, avant-garde Mexico,” she writes. “This was the land of fusion. I hate fusion. I hate infusion. I want my ethnicity straight up.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
