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Article: South- Way South- Of the Border; Beyond the Tropic of Cancer Lies Mexico's Land of the Endless Summer
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- The Washington Post
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- November 1, 1987
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South of Mazatla'n, perhaps 40 or 50 minutes, everything starts
to change. The very air you breathe turns languid, heavy. Herons,
cranes and egrets appear in the ditches and fields alongside Mexican
Highway 15. The coastal desert is still there, with its anguished
rock and tormented brush, but toward the Pacific, beyond the
dessicated hills, a new landscape is emerging, of mangrove swamp,
winding estuaries, extravagant jungle. You have crossed the Tropic
of Cancer, that invisible boundary 23 1/2 degrees north of the
Equator that separates the lands of frost and fire, the temperate
zone from the tropics. Welcome to Endless Summer, with its rain
forests, orchids and warm blue surf.
One of ...