Playing on the Playa
Get Your Fresh Young Coconuts Here!
“Hola amigo, you want to go para-sailing?
Boat ride?
Horseback riding?
Snorkeling?
Jetski?”
No, gracias.
“No watersports today? How about some weeeeedddd? You wanna smoke?”
Morelian Meandering
Welcome to Morelia
Morelia is the coolest place you’ve never been, begins my copy of Lonely Planet Mexico. By cool, I think they meant the temperature, because the evenings were frigid. Either that, or this specific Lonely Planet writer hasn’t ventured out much. It is a beautiful town with great architecture and good food, but it takes more than that to win a coolest place award
Millions of Mariposas
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.
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.
Until Your Mom Stops Sending Checks…
Good Morning Mexico!
“How long are you in Mexico?”
Me: I’m not sure, maybe one more month.
“That is fantastic! Isn’t it great here?”
Me: Absolutely, we love it! The weather is amazing, the people are incredibly friendly, and the cost of living is so agreeable. What more could you ask for?
Teotihuacan
An hour bus ride outside of Mexico City sit the remains of a 2000 year old city, Teotihuacan. Predating the Aztec empire by 1000 years or more, the people of Teotihuacan believed that the universe and man originated from a cave under the city. Temples to various gods were constructed along the 2 mile long Avenue of the Dead, with the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon being the largest.
