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,...
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...
Monterrey is back, It just needs You
There are many ways people think about Monterrey, Nuevo Leon – Mexico’s industrial giant, a haven for the moneyed and the narcos, a Tex-Mex collision of barbecue and soccer. But when I took a break from Mexico City this...
Cheap Mexico Airport Transportation for Bargain Travelers
*Last updated June 2023* For me, one of the most frustrating things about traveling is arriving at the airport. Wherever you are in the world, it seems transportation from the airport to the hotel or city center where you...
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...
Welcome to Tijuana
Even I need a break from writing about Mexico City some times and so for the past few weeks we road-tripped through Baja California, enjoying the clean desert air and fish tacos. I wrote random stories down on my...
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...