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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...
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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...
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Best of Mexico in Pictures: Oaxaca
Mercado 20 de Noviembre Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mercado Juarez...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Chiles of Mexico: Chiltepín
“Rich, what’s a burro?” “I don’t know. Maybe a large burrito?” We decide to test our powers of deduction and stop at a comedor by the side of the winding road between Hermosillo and Agua Prieta. This...
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The Trip in Full
So we made it. 6,500 miles in an ’87 Dodge van. We camped off-road in Chihuahua. We got lost at night on the back roads of Oaxaca. We drove through states, such as Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa, that...
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