Lo que nos dejó Panamá

Como ya es costumbre, les dejamos un resumen de lo que nos pareció Panamá en estos 70 días de recorrido por el país. Lo primero que uno nota (y de hecho le impacta) al llegar a Panamá es la cultura de consumo que se ve en todos lados. Pensamos que era algo intrínseco de la…

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Por el interior de Panamá

Las playas que no fueron 15 días en la gran ciudad fueron suficientes como para cansarnos del tráfico, pero también para hacer nuevos amigos, recorrer y hacer compras. Ya estábamos listos para cambiar los edificios por arena y mar, pero el panorama que nos encontramos al llegar a “la playa” fue bastante desalentador. Pasamos por…

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Kam Wah Chung & co.

Kam Wah Chung & co is a time capsule from the 1940’s with some of its contents dating back even earlier. The building was home to Ing ‘Doc’ Hay and Lung On and centre of the local Chinese community. Functioning as a general store, clinic, place of accommodation and gathering place it was firmly established […]

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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 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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Teotihuacan- Pyramids with friends

After Hidalgo we headed down to DF or Distrito Federal to visit Mexico City and our first major ruins of Teotihuacan. We arrived at the campground in the late afternoon and had our first internet in over ten days. As I opened my email I found out really sad news, that my 97 year old Grandma […]
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Hidalgo- Basalt and the the birth of Fútbol

Driving through Mexico we never know what we will get. It is one of the many things I love about this country. It is so amazingly diverse. We left the dry, cactus filled desert around the hot springs and within a few hours we were in the pine forested mountains above Mexico City. This part […]
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Hidalgo- Grutas de Tolantongo

The drive from the tropical mountains of San Luis Potosi to the state of Hidalgo was long. VERY, VERY long. But I had read about this place that had stunning hot springs in the mountains and I was determined we should see it even if it was a nine hour trek. I pictured us relaxing […]
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Xilitla- The surreal world of Las Pozas

Xilitla is a town located on the top of a very windy mountain road in the state of San Luis Potosi. It is extremely tropical and not that easy to get to, however, the trek was more than worth it. The drive from Tomosopo was stunning. It reminded us of the landscape of south western […]
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San Luis Potosi- A town worth stopping for

It seems on the UNESCO World Heritage site circuit of central Mexico that colonial San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and Morelia get all the love, while colonial San Luis Potosi (called SLP by locals) which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, get a little left behind. So we thought we would see what this […]
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San Miguel de Allende- You will not want to leave

Be careful about visiting San Miguel de Allende, there is something about this small, picturesque town that sucks you in. Sam and I came here for a few days and ended up staying for twelve. Part of it is the great campground in the heart of the city, a rare find in Mexico, with really […]
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