A trip to Mexico is often an exhilarating experience. There are a many different sites that are exclusive to Mexico. Such sights include Mexico’s pristine…
You’ve probably heard about the train trip through Copper Canyon in Mexico. The Chihuahua Pacifico, “El Chepe” for short, is the only passenger train in…
Gentrification is “the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier, usually poorer,…
I am happy as a peacock to report that Mexico does not have much in the way of Creepy Dangerous Things that come out in…
After our visit to the huge government-owned pawnshop, Nacional Monte de Piedad, we saw a side view of Mexico City’s and Latin America’s biggest cathedral:…
Americans are told through slick and appealing magazine ads and maybe a seminar or two that they can move to Mexico and miss nothing—all the…
I’ve noticed lately the tourists that make their way to central Mexico (Guanajuato) tend to be either the loosey-goosey backpackers or the tourist elite who…
Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more…
Each year, a large number of individuals, couples, and families make the decision to travel to Mexico. Most have visited Mexico before. If you are…
I am miffed. I am sitting in my casita (little house) in Guanajuato moaning and groaning about something over which I have no possible control.…
For a number of years now, Rosarito has been a popular weekend destination for many Southern Californian tourists, most of them college students out to…
It has been the Prime Living Locations such as the Lake Chapala area, Puerto Vallarta, San Miguel de Allende, Cuernavaca, Mazatlán, and others to which…
Expatriate wannabes often ask us how we managed our expatriation to Guanajuato. If I had to narrow it down to the most important factor in…
Travelers often dismiss concierges as meaningless middlemen. Yet, when vacationing in Cancun, your hotel concierge can supply you a world of information and opportunity. These…
If you read guidebooks or travel articles about México, you will read that Mexicans are wonderfully accommodating, friendly, warm, and generous to strangers. You will…