The sun sets on our time in Baja

We expected to spend a couple of weeks exploring the southern end of the Baja peninsula and planned to arrange a ferry ride for ourselves and our Four Wheeled Ticket to Freedom sometime in January. First on the itinerary for our remaining time in Baja were the clear waters that lap the shores of the Cabo Pulmo National […]

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Top 5: Best Beaches in Mainland Mexico

Erica and I were reminiscing about our favorite beaches on mainland Mexico over a couple of beers last night (you can also check out our favorite beaches in Baja Mexico).  What makes the perfect beach for us? There are a lot of things we look for in a beach. First off, we aren’t surfers, and […]
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Budget: Mainland Mexico

We spent 105 days in Mainland, Mexico and spent a total of $7,135.  That means that we spent on average about $68 per day. This is quite a bit more expensive than our Baja budget of about $34 per day, so let’s break it down. Our largest expense was food ($2,600), followed by transportation ($1,996), […]
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Mainland, Mexico: Camp Site List

We spent a five months in Mexico, and the majority of it was all camping. This is a big list of places where we stayed on the main land — maybe too big! You can also check out our Baja Camp Site List to see all the places we stayed in Baja. We’ll try to […]
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The Riviera Maya- Our last stop in Mexico

Along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico lies some of the most beautiful white sand beaches you will find anywhere. The only problem is that they are far from undiscovered. In fact, most of this lovely coast has been taken over by fancy resorts and all inclusive hotels, making this area one […]
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The Yucatan- Cenote adventures

Visiting cenotes is a must if you have time why you are exploring the Yucatan peninsula. They come in all shapes and sizes, from large open air cenotes, to dark underground caves (my personal favorite). A cenote is a natural sink hole in limestone that gets filled by fresh rain water through underground aquifers. Because […]
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Uxmal- Ruta Puuc

After Palenque and Yaxchilan done in close succession, we were not sure if we were going to visit any more Mayan ruins while in Mexico. We had visited Tulum, Chichen Itza and Coba during past trips and thought we had seen the best of the best. We were wrong! Uxmal, another UNESCO World Heritage site […]
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Campeche- You had me at pirates…..

Before this trip I had never heard of Campeche. But in prep for the PanAm I have been cutting out articles for years from my favorite travel magazines as inspiration for this trip. I read one while we were in Palenque on this pastel UNESCO World Heritage site that talked about a walled city and […]
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Chiapas Part 4- Palenque

Before we started this trip and even during it (even after we had spent three weeks in hot spot Michoacan!) I was worried about driving through Chiapas. Fear is a funny thing, it can take on a life of its own. We had read about a couple that ran into some trouble in Chiapas about […]
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Chiapas Part 3- Ruta Lacandona, Las Nubes and Yaxchilan

Las Nubes This is a place that without your own vehicle it would be rather difficult to get to. It is tucked away off dirt roads in the Reserva Biosfera Monte Azul, but totally worth the trek to get to it. It was steamy hot here, around 90 with intense humidity. As we hiked along […]
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Chiapas Part 2- Ruta Lacandona, waterfalls and lakes

After a week in and out of the XP sick bay, I was getting totally stir crazy and wanted desperately to move on even though I was not fully recovered.  I am a really stubborn person, and I convinced Sam (who did not get as sick as I did and was mostly recovered) that I […]
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Chiapas Part 1- Canyons of trash and a crazy carnival

Canon del Sumidero I am torn about this place. It was really beautiful and we took the boat ride through the canyon and visited all the five miradors (overlooks) in the national park. The problem is the river is FULL of trash, mostly plastic bottles. Islands of trash. So much trash in places the boats […]
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The Oaxaca beaches- A Goldilocks tale

One thing I am learning after traveling for over seven months, take all advice, from the Lonely Planet guide books, to other travelers tales of paradise or hell, with a grain of salt and an open mind. Because everyone has different perspectives on places. Also, places can change daily with the weather or with crowds, […]
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The villages around Oaxaca

There are so many great places to explore around Oaxaca, and we just got to some of them while my Mom was visiting. However, if you have the time the villages are definitely worth exploring to get a sense of how the fifteen plus indigenous groups that inhabit this area live. Teotitlan del Valle This […]
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Oaxaca- The food post

I was not sure if I was going to do another food post after Mexico City, but I got a lot of great feedback (apparently I am not the only person obsessed with good food), so I thought I have to do one for the most famous food city in Mexico, Oaxaca. I first learned […]
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Oaxaca city with Mom

My parents had both be planning on visiting us in Oaxaca for nine days, but unfortunately my Dad had to cancel because of the death of his Mom, so it was us solo with my Mom. For the last few months we have been sending things to my parents house we need for the XP […]
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Around Oaxaca- Monte Albán and Hierve el Agua

Hierve el Agua About and hour outside of Oaxaca is Hierve el Agua which means the water boils in Spanish. It is a groups of “waterfalls” that has been created by calcium carbonate building up over time as the water trickles over the cliffs. It is in a stunning location and is a unique natural […]
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Cholula- Hot sauce, pyramids and murals

Let me start this out by saying we never found any hot sauce stores in Cholula (one of our favorite brands of Mexican hot sauce in the states). How are they not capitalizing on this? I need to teach some sales courses at the university…. We stopped in Cholula to break up our very long […]
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Mexico City Part 2- The sites

Mexico City has a really bad wrap, the department of tourism needs to work on some rebranding. Most people think of it as a place that is crime ridden and polluted, where you get kidnapped in taxis and choke on car exhaust. We found it very safe, clean and really charming. There was a heavy […]
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Mexico City part 1- The food post

I think Mexico City gets a bad wrap. In my opinion it is a wonderful city on par with Buenas Aires and Barcelona. It is not the crime ridden, smog filled, dangerous city many people outside of Mexico think of. I wanted to do a post that gave people a different perspective. We blew up […]
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