Making yourself at home
steph This week we are in Mexico City, and we were extremely fortunate enough to find a CouchSurfing host who is A) dog-friendly (he has five!), B) has a parking spot…
Full circle in GTO
I never wrote anything about Guanajuato, which I found to be a perfectly lovely town, which we entered via a network of underground tunnels, some of which used to be…
Pop-up parade
Juan and I have had some great luck with timing this past week. In addition to the Balloon Festival and the Lucha Libre fight, we happened to spend a night…
BEST WEEK EVER
This was a week of many firsts. I went to my first hot-air balloon festival! We got here mostly by chance. We hadn’t planned to go to Léon, but Juan…
Insta-van
I haven’t been using Instagram as much since I don’t have phone service and have been carrying Juan’s little Lumix everywhere. But sometimes I reach for my iPhone, and here…
Goodbye Michoacán…
We’ve had an amazing month of November so far. After Day of the Dead in Pátzcuaro, we headed over to what may just be my favorite city so far in…
Positively Pátzcuaro
We spent four nights in Pátzcuaro surrounding Día de Los Muertos. The city possessed a tame sort of energy from all of the activity and visitors, and we enjoyed it…
Yes, Michoacán!
After Tapalpa, we continued onto the town of Mazamitla by way of this “Ruta Ecoturista” (dirt road) that goes through a beautiful, mountainous forest. It would have been a nice…
Cool it down
On the advice of many new friends, we left Guadalajara and headed for the hills. We camped one night back in Ajijic, where still more canons and bells sounded through…
Strange times
I’ve proven to be the first man down, in my unhappy new phase of Food Poisoning, All the Time. Juan made me go see a doctor when he noticed that…