If you are like me you are probably watching with more and more trepidation as the temperatures rise across the globe, natural disasters get more intense, and climate change wreaks havoc on human and non-human populations. I have been...
Guadalajara City Guide
*This post was last updated July 2023* I am die-hard Mexico City, as you, my dear readers, know all too well. For me, no other city in the world compares. That said, I am game to explore some other,...
A Mexican Love Story
Here's my embarrassingly nervous interview with the folks at The Latin America show on Mexico's favorite love story
Five Things to Do in Lake Chapala, Mexico
I took a break from Mexico City a few weeks back and visited one of the places in Mexico that I have been wanting a closer look at – Lake Chapala. Mexico’s largest lake, at 1,100 kilometers squared, at...
The Ordinary of Travel
Like every traveler, I love a beautiful vista and a great meal. I fill up my Instagram with stunning sunsets and lazy shots of myself in a hammock. But to be honest, most of the time I can’t help...
Mexico City Day Trips: Teotihuacan
The more I learn about Teotihuacan, the more I find myself impressed by these incredible ruins only 45 minutes outside Mexico City. For several centuries (100AD to 750AD approximately) Teotihuacan is believed to have been Mesoamerica’s economic powerhouse. The...
Mexico City Day Trips: Desierto de los Leones
In Juan Villoro’s short essay “The Metro” about traversing Mexico City he talks about the city’s boundaryland — The Desierto de los Leones National Park — and its peculiar commonality with the hic sunt leones of medieval maps — the...
Mexico City Day Trips: Teuhtli Volcano & San Pedro Actopan
Just beyond the gate a woman stands in a fake-fur lined leather jacket. She shivers slightly in the cool morning air. Our guide Erick gets out to talk to her, hoping to the find the watchman he is looking...
Mexico City Day Trips: Nevado de Toluca’s Chilly View from the Top
Whether you live in Mexico City or are just visiting, you should try to make it out to see the Xinantécatl volcano, better known as the Nevado de Toluca. According to the official government site of the city of...
Mexico City Day Trips: Puebla
We didn’t get lost. The dog may have gotten sick and shit in the car and it may have rained almost the whole way home and I may have eaten so many M&Ms that I gave myself a stomach...