Clik here to view.
Best of Mexico in Pictures: Hierve el Agua
editor’s note: Gina’s pictures are from our expedition to Hierve el Agua, part of an action packed day wherein we visited the ruins of Mitla and the mineral springs pictured below, as well as several...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roasted Hearts and Winding Roads: Adventures in Oaxaca’s Mezcal Country
The wooden cask reads “Reserva de los Dioses”, or “Reserve of the Gods”. Indeed. At a mezcal distillery in the highlands of Oaxaca, an erudite, well-dressed man is pouring generous shots of liquor into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best of Mexico in Pictures: Oaxaca
Mercado 20 de Noviembre Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mercado Juarez...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Road Food Round-Up: Barbacoa and the Search for Taco Greatness
Tacos al pastor in Mexico City photo by Felisa Rogers “Barbacoa Don Cuco” The white rabbit blinks pink eyes and settles deeper into its nest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1st Annual Caballo Blanco Hike
Divisadero to Urique 2013 March is the best time of year to hike in Copper Canyon, and we took advantage of some free time in our schedules to get some miles in. We’ve been hiking to the ultramarathon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daniel Rueffert Exhibit
For those of you in the SMA area, one of my favorite artists is having an exhibit in Mineral de Pozos on March 30. Daniel writes: “Plein air refers to paintings done on location in one shot. (That’s my...
View ArticleEquinox in the Maya World
Happy Equinox! People’s Guide correspondent Jeanine Kitchel explains the significance.…
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Itch
We’ve been in Mexico for a month when it starts: this nagging feeling that something is missing. We’ve watched the sun set from colonial rooftops, we’ve trolled through dim mercados ogling the produce...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quick Tenacatita Update
photo by Gina Dilello Although last year’s court ruling clearly states that the public must have free access to Tenacatita, access is still limited. Many locals have been denied access completely. When...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best of Mexico in Pictures: Round Four
photos by Gina Dilello (and one by Felisa Rogers)
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best of Mexico in Pictures: Pescado at Last!
Playa Banco de Oro, Oaxaca Fresh pargo, estilo Roberto...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fantastico, Part I
In this era of confessional living, when ineptitude supposedly makes you loveable and full disclosure proves you’ve got cojones, it’s easy enough for me to admit that I’m an incompetent athlete, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Oaxaca Campground
Today I received exciting news of a new camp option in the Oaxaca area: Overlander Oasis is located in pretty Santa María Del Tule, about ten minutes east of Oaxaca City on Highway 190. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Historical Photo of the Week: Tina Modotti by Edward Weston
Nude, Mexico by Edward Weston photo from Getty Museum Archive According to an interesting post at the Getty Museum Archive, Edward Weston shot this photo on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crossing the Sierras
Spitting and Sputtering Our Way Across the Dusty Sierra Madre Carl Lumholtz’s description of crossing the Sierra Madre Occidental in 1890 leaves one quaking with fear of the unknown. Not much has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fantastico, Part II
Read Part I of this story here. Jazmin is a complete bad ass. She takes no prisoners and never pussy-foots around issues. For that reason, I felt like she’d be the perfect teacher for me....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Copper Canyon Correspondent
What’s up Down There The paved highway from the junction at Samachique to Batopilas is progressing relentlessly. It has reached the roadside capilla where the 5am bus used to stop to allow folks to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Road Notes: Puerto Angel to Melaque
If you happen to stop in at Playa Banco de Oro, stop in at Restaurante Hermanos Galinda. The proprieter, Carmen, is super nice and makes a mean fried huachinango. Plus you can camp at her restaurant....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best of Mexico in Pictures: Mazatlan
Rich in parking lot of Hotel Belmar Mazatlan, Mexico I wrote a long post about my poetic and undying love for the Hotel Belmar, located at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Road Notes–Nayarit/Sinaloa
The libre from Tepic to Mazatlan is unusually good. Driving through Culiacan was as awful as I remembered. Next time we will bite the bullet and take the cuota bypass. For some reason the “libre” from...
View Article
