You may get a prompt to allow an active X script to run. It's for the embedded videos. If you want to see any of them you have to allow the script. If you click on any video after it is playing, it will pause. A side note, the player and video are hosted on my site now so there is no spyware.

Should you want to contact me via e-mail, there will never be a link on here for my e-mail due to spammers. But, if you can figure this out, you will have my address: cliff@here (peek at the top image in case you do not know where "here" is.)

For My Frequent Visitors; Here Is A Special Link to My Most Recent Addition To This Page:

Click Here To See What's New!

If the Link Is White You Haven't Seen It. I hope this works for you. Please let me know if it doesn't.

These stories evolved from e-mails I sent to lots of friends, due to my distance from them while here at the Great Maya Reef, into this web site. Understand, this is merely a labor of love which eventually aquired an audience of thousands around the world. Here, I intend to index links to the republishing of all of my old stories I still have, after the great computer crash, in chronological order. Enjoy!

You Can Click The Following Links To Go Directly To A Report You Haven't Read, A Video You Haven't Viewed, Or Something You Want To See Again - indexed in date order, oldest first, after the video items.

On This Page And Others At Portillas.com:

Navidad Xcalak 2008 Movie

Portillas Slide Show Video - An oldie but I like it

July 7, 2002 - Starfish Trek Pilot

August 6, 2002 - Starfish Trek Episode One - Houston, We Have Landed

August 7, 2002 - Mexican Thunderstorm

August 11, 2002 - Starfish Trek Episode 3 - Tormente en Portillas

August 14, 2002 - Starfish Trek Episode 4:The Attack Of The Tabanos

August 16, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 5: Chechem & Chakaj

August 18, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 6: The Scorpion & Tan

August 19, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 7: Deep Six Bill

August 20, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 8: PB&J

August 21, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 9: Chiquistas Conquered!!!!!

August 26, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 10: Memories Are Free!

Auust 29, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 11: Pray For Bill

September 2, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 12: Gone Fishin'

September 12, 2002 Starfish Trek Episode 13: Not Quite Gilligans' Island

This is much more difficult and time consuming than I had planned. I will continue with the older ones I still have as I have both time and electricity (both in short suply right now.)

I changed Portillas.com's home page concept to include all stories on one page for a year, mas o menos. This was to aid in the more rapid loading of the pages and to ease the task of producing the archives for access here. As a result, instead of having to build a new page for each story (Most of which I have to extrapolate due to a viral attack on my computer in 2007 which left garbaged characters instead of words in most of my files I was able to recover) I only have to rename the index page to archive an entire year's ramblings. Please find below, a link to the year 2009 which includes the last part of 2008 through early November 2009.

December 2008 - early November 2009 Archive Page

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A Special Note: While the following links are the best I have found, they are commercial sites outside my domain. Some do put spyware on your computer. It is how they are paid for what they do. As a rule, it is generally harmless but, those who are concerned should do a scan after visiting. Search for AdAware from Lavasoft on the internet, it is free.

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For The Following Links If You Want To Use Portillas (3 miles south of Xcalak) As Your Location, My Location Is: 18.2285 ° N By 87.84166 ° W

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