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...
Sunday in Mexico City
I’ve been challenged by a friend to write a series of guides to the different days of the week in Mexico City. While I freely admit that my insights are limited to a few areas of the city, I...
The New Roma Guide — Coming Soon!
Hey Readers, If you like this blog you will LOVE my upcoming guide to living in the Roma. I need your help to make all these hours of research and writing pay off. Please help me raise money to...
Six Mexico City Museums That Won’t Make You Want to Kill Yourself
I’m personally not a big fan of the anthropology museum or really any place where the rooms go on without end. I get irritated and tired and wanting a drink if I wander around a museum for too long...
The Templo Mayor is not as Lame as you Think
Or at least as lame as I thought. In general ruins are just that — ruins. they don’t hold any kind of real draw after you see four or five or six of “most important pre-Colombian archeological sites in...
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...