Millions of Mariposas

Beautiful Wing Structure

Beautiful Wing Structure

High up in the mountains east of Morelia, Mexico, is where one of the great mysteries of the natural world takes place.  Every year, hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies migrate 4,000 km from the North and Eastern United States to a breeding grounds in Mexico.

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Galavanting About Guanajuato

Galavanting About Guanajuato

While staying in San Miguel, we were repeatedly encouraged to visit nearby Guanajuato.  Plenty of tours were available for about $75 a head, but inevitably organized tours are a compromise between the fattest, laziest, most decrepit, and loudest people in the group.  Since we lack patience for any of those characteristics, we decided to slum it and organize everything ourselves.

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Medicos Mexicanos

Core strength is important, and there are many great ways to build it.  Crunches, Pilates, hacking cough marathons…  but after 2 nights in a row of little, if any, sleep due to a deep cough that just wouldn’t quit, I decided to get some outside help

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