Chad and I chose Cuernavaca to be our destination for our overnight Christmas gift this year. The category drawn with Mexico and overnight was Arts & Literature. Cuernavaca fit the bill on a number of fronts. And, it is easily accessible by bus from Mexico City. I booked a hotel for a Wednesday night not…

We’re back in Mexico City for our fourth long stay here, fifth visit total. On the plus column, the city is everything we remembered that we love and we’re having a fantastic time. On the minus side, our six weeks here seem to be flying by and we’re well over halfway through our stay. Here…

Chad and I wanted to stay in at least one pueblo magico between Queretaro and Mexico City and my birthday weekend seemed like a great opportunity for that. Tequisquiapan, or Tequis as it is called, was our first and obvious choice because it’s in the center of the “ruta de queso y vino” (Mexican cheese…

One major tourist activity we planned for our time in Querétaro was to take a day trip to Peña de Bernal. The peña is a 1400 foot monolith, one of the tallest in the world, and looms over the charming colonial town of Bernal, a pueblo magico about an hour away from Querétaro. I read…

I just reread my Guanajuato: We’re Home post and we certainly had a fun first couple of weeks there. The second half of our stay may have been even better because in addition to experiencing more food and history, we also had the opportunity to attend a couple of music events, plus our day trip…

It was an interesting contrast to take our day trip to Dolores Hidalgo on Thursday from here in Guanajuato just after catching up on my three day trip posts from the fall in Perugia. Day trips in Mexico are very different from day trips in Italy, though there are similarities too. Here’s how we made…

We really enjoyed our first two weeks of our monthlong stay in Guanajuato. Though it isn’t a spectacular destination, it has been comfortable enough and extremely interesting. We’ve had a few memorable fun experiences already and have a few more planned for our remaining time here.  Arrival from Zihuatanejo A few months before our trip…

Our final two weeks in Zihuatanejo were a lot like our first two weeks in the beach town. We enjoyed lots of time at the beach and in the water, did two more snorkel excursions, and continued our typical set schedule of work, learning, and eating great Mexican food. While I was improving my Spanish…

We are halfway through our four weeks in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, so it is time for me to do a post about our arrival and initial impressions, no matter how many posts I still have to catch up on from our time in Europe (eight of them). Because I don’t want to fall behind on posting…