@warzan Have you read much of Thor Heyerdahl’s exploits? He built a raft using old Incan techniques and sailed it from South America out towards the Polynesian islands in an attempt to discover if it was possible for a South America culture to colonised Polynesia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Kon-Tiki_expedition

He later built a boat based on what we understood of old Egyptian efforts and tried to sail across the Atlantic. That attempt failed but a second boat succeeded. Again, not proof there was definite contact, just a proof of concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra_II

Heyerdahl is Norwegian so basically a viking 😉

Also, the geology of the Yucatan region is quite unusual and different to much of the rest of Mexico. Much of the rock is soluble meaning there aren’t many surface water features. Instead you find a lot of sinkholes, called Cenotes, which are used to access underground water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula#Geology

They can be very picturesque and might make for a different look to a board. There’s a large example near Chichen Itza. Do an image search in Google for:
Sacred Cenote chichen itza

I thought I’d just make a point on the Mayan imagery you pointed out. I did a tour of a lot of Mexican ruins a few years back and in one, Palenque I think, they showed us some murals showing the exploits of a king and then of his son. In the transitional murals the father was rendered in a smaller size to the son. The guide said this was to show the father had died, become a spirit and now his son was the big man. The main point is they didn’t really know what it meant but the size of a person in each image had a meaning outside of something’s physical properties. I appreciate you weren’t claiming your comments were facts.

On a side note if you’re interested in the written culture of the Mayans you can’t help but run across Diego de Landa. When the church first got to central and southern American they told their priests not to prosecute the locals to harshly and treat them as children since they didn’t have a deep understanding of Christianity. De Landa changed that and led a bloody inquisition against the local culture; torturing and killing many and destroying artifacts and texts. Yet contrarily he recorded what he could about the culture and retained most of our remaining copies of indigenous Mayan literature. Much of our current source material comes from him.

Mexico has a fascinating history and architecture. I’d be happy to stick vikings in against Mayan / Aztec cultures just for the sake of it.

I enjoyed the show. See you all at the bootcamp.