*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,...
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: 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...
The Faces of Argentina
We met Néstor building his father’s tomb. So high up in the valley that the wind whipped around the cemetery’s tombstones and crept under our collars. A chill emanated from the mountainside and the dilapidated headstones covered in silk...
The great salt lick: Las Salinas Grandes
I guess I expected the salt flats to look cleaner. Like a blanket of snow, except crunchy. What I found was a tire crushed lake bottom with crystal-blue long, rectangular pools cut into it. The salt here is being...
Freaky Friday in Cachi, UFO country
Our first stop outside of Salta’s capital was Cachi, in the Calchaqui Valley. The Valley, which runs through various provinces, is known for its incredible landscape, which I can attest to. Coming down the mountains from Piedra de Molina...
Rolling by: Biking in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is really a bike riding paradise. The city has designed over 100 kilometers of bicisendas (bike lanes) and greenways and has 30 more planned. We decided to take the day to explore the city by bike, borrowing...
Just Another Day in Buenos Aires
Yesterday was a cliché. But one of those clichés that make you happy to be living it. It started with a medialuna from La Ventana de Willy (Willy’s window) in bajo Belgrano, famous for the quantity of tangos dedicated...
Christmas in Belize
If it’s a balmy 80 degrees outside at the El Secreto resort, it’s at least 100 degrees in the kitchen. I can feel the sweat pouring down the small of my back, but the kitchen staff, in their uniforms,...
Throwing Pots in Belize
On Thursday we visited the San Antonio Womens’ Group in San Antonio, Belize, a few miles from the Hidden Valley Inn, a 7,200-acre resort in the middle of the Belizean pine forest. The chickens crept forward searching for a...