We hung out for a bit in the Condesa and Roma neighborhoods. They’re nice enough, but left us feeling a bit like we could be anywhere from Minneapolis, to Buenos Aires, to Portland. Lots of cafés, and lots of nicely dressed people. Oh, and lots and lots of dogs wearing … Read More
Ciudad de México
From the top of the Torre Latinoamerican. The view doesn’t stretch very far thanks to the smog. Mexico City has a ton of hardcore driving restrictions in place to try and alleviate some of the congestion and smog, but from what we can see it isn’t doing much good, it … Read More
Mexico City
We left the bus in Teotihuacán and hopped a bus into a quiet little place called Ciudad de México. A little over twenty million people call Mexico City home and it is one of our favorite capital cities anywhere. Again, we’ve been excited to show the kids around. The first day we … Read More
Pyramids
We made it through election weekend, despite the hardships placed on us by the Mexican government—namely, they wouldn’t allow any restaurants or stores to sell us beer. We tried to explain to the waiter at the restaurant we visited—the one with the entire back room dedicated to a playground—that it … Read More
A Big Rock
We hung out in Queretaro a couple of days longer than we would have expected. The city is not great, but it’s not half-bad either. The campground was really nothing more than a parking space at the Hotel Flamingo with our door opening up on the one stretch of lawn … Read More
Ten Tacos, Please
From Guanajuato we backtracked and spent a few more days bumming around San Miguel. It’s the kind of town you can get to know really quickly. There are only a handful of streets you walk around as a tourist, and the rest is just sort of wandering the neighborhoods. We enjoyed our … Read More
Guanajuato
We stayed in Guanajuato a few years ago, and it was great. The campground sat in a yard on one of the town’s hills overlooking a neighborhood just above the city center itself. Unfortunately there is no way our current bus was going to make it in there, which left … Read More
San Miguel de Allende
Another day in San Miguel de Allende. We visited the toy museum, watched a wedding party emerge from the big church, hung out in the park/playground, and generally just walked slowly and tried to soak it all in. Man, do they ever know how to have a wedding down here. … Read More
Reconsidering San Miguel
We finally dragged ourselves out of Patzcuaro. That was an easy place to spend a couple of weeks. From there we drove north, navigating around Morelia, to a middle of nowhere in particular place. A guy recently opened up an RV park near Cuitzeo, and was happy to have us … Read More
More Patzcuaro Wanderings
We thought we’d go visit Volcán Parícutin, fifty miles and two buses away from Patzcuaro. I’m not sure why we thought we could do this, a day after the kids narrowly escaped puking all over a bus. Actually, we thought it’d be all right because it would be a full … Read More
Carnita Carnage
Some days they play so well together, some days not so much. Just out on the edge of town is a hill called Cerro el Estribo that was said to be a nice hike. Ali and I prefer to hike downhill, so we grabbed a cab to the end of the … Read More