PlayaParadise<dot>com

Welcome to our new site!

We're your hosts, Karin and Gregg.

Why?

We have been on the web much too long without having our own presence. Both of us have now been on the internet for over 10 years each. Being geeky, we both have multiple emails and Google accounts; we have logins for numerous social network sites, photo-sharing sites and portal pages; and each have multiple accounts for each of MSN/Live, Yahoo, ICQ and various other messengers. Many of the mini-identities each of these creates are no longer in use as various sites disappeared from the web. Each of these give you a small presence on the web, but as one of a multitude on the same site, all limited by the sites' guidelines and vision. In the past we have created web sites hosted by our ISP, GeoSites, AngelFire, Google and Tripod. Some allowed you more control than the others, but the all had their limitations; with one of the largest being that your web site was just a sub-domain of their own domain. The geek in each of us wanted full control in order to learn more.

We both have blogs that have been hosted at Blogger until now. Blogger is a great tool, especially for the non-technical people out there; but we yearned for the greater control of a self-hosted Wordpress blog.
Thus this site has been born. To begin it is just hosting our blogs, which we welcome you to check out. In the future, we are now free to add whatever elements we wish.

The Name

As two people that love to travel, the thought of going to the same place repeatedly was not desirable...

... until we discovered Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Gregg originally visited this town with his family during a vacation in 1993. When we were looking for a paradise for our honeymoon that we could afford, we took our first trip together and fel in love with the town and area. The beauty of the area would impress anyone, but what makes it even more special for us is the genuine friendliness of the people, the casual feel, and the lifestyle. While Playa simply means beach in Spanish; the locals abbreviate Playa del Carmen as Playa.

Thus PlayaParadise refers both to our love of a beautiful beach under the tropical sun, and our love of the town of Playa.

As we prepare to embark back to Playa for our fifth anniversary, we will likely talk about it more in our blogs. So welcome to our site, and please visit our blogs to find out more.