Mexico hasn’t had passenger trains for a long time. Even worse than the US, trains began to die out with the rise of cars and freight trucking. Passenger train infrastructure is expensive and needs to be backed by a government that understands the importance of good transportation. It was not a priority for past Mexican…
Tag: Mexico
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
We made it to our 14th Mexican state – Chiapas! I have re-united with my wife M who spent the last week back in Seattle, and I am very happy to be back to our normal “couple traveling” instead of solo traveling. I really prefer being able to share everything again with her. This includes…
Solo Traveling is not for me
M has returned to Seattle for a memorial service this week, so I have been traveling alone in Mexico. I have had two separate 3 night stops to try out “Solo Traveling”. I did a few work trips alone during my career, but that doesn’t really count because I am busy with work things and…
Oaxaca- the Foodie town of Mexico
We have been looking forward to this town for a long time. We have heard so much about Oaxacan Mole and all the other great Oaxacan foods that we really mapped our trip to end up in Oaxaca. We had fantastic food in Puebla but Oaxaca just had so many more places making fantastic meals….
Are we the only Gringos in Orizaba, Mexico?
We like to get off the beaten path when traveling and relish those times that we feel like we are the “only” tourists (we know this is never really true). We like being in restaurants with mostly locals or the only Caucasians on a local bus, because it feels like a more real experience. But…
Puebla, Mexico
We really needed to get back to the real Mexico and Puebla was our perfect next destination. We spent several weeks in Bucerias, (near Puerto Vallarta), in a neighborhood filled with other gringos avoiding the rainy spring in Canada and the Northern US. It was Mexico… but we didn’t have to speak Spanish in most…
Eating in Bucerias
It is often difficult to find the best places to eat when traveling. Google Reviews are often inaccurate and point you to restaurants that you weren’t really looking for. We have been in Bucerias for over a month, for the past 4 years, and have tried many of the restaurants. Bucerias has a lot of…
My Favorite Towns in the World
We have returned again to Bucerias, Mexico for a 5 week stay. This will be the 4th year in a row that we will have spent at least a month in Bucerias. Last fall I wrote a post about how we didn’t know how to answer the question- Where is your favorite place? I have…
Refuge of Hope
I have talked a lot about our struggles to slow down our travel. We have conflicting desires on our travel strategy. On one hand we want to see the whole world and our bucket list is so long that we are always eager to see everything and keep moving on. On the other hand, we…
Day Trips from Bucerias Mexico
One of the reasons that we travel, is to explore new towns and beaches. We are staying in one town for several weeks, so we feel a little guilty that we aren’t on the road every day finding new things. But one of the reasons we are here, is to have a break in the…
Bucerias, Mexico…Again?!?!
Why do we keep coming back? In early 2021, we were one of the first people to get the vaccine so we were able to travel again. We spent a month “Working from Home” on the beach in Bucerias Mexico- just North of Puerto Vallarta. I wrote about it here when this blog was mostly…
Yelapa- The Isolated Mexican Beach Town
The last stop on our 2022 Mexico tour was 4 nights in the small beach town of Yelapa. We had been going full bore tourist mode during our few days in Mexico City so we wanted a few days to do nothing before we went home to Beacon Hill – Seattle. Yelapa does not have…
Mexico City needs a long visit
The 2nd biggest city in the America’s (after San Paolo) is huge. We have been to Mexico many times and never took the time to visit it’s most important city. We stayed 5 nights but needed a bit more. Tons of great museums, art and things to do. There are over 150 museums. It might…
Guanajuato and San Miguel De Allende
Most of our experiences in visiting Mexico over the last 30 years has been beaches. That is probably the case with most Gringos. We gringos stay for a week in Cancun, Mazatlan, Ixtapa, Cabo or Puerta Vallarta and don’t see much of the real Mexico except for going to a taco stand on the “other”…
Back to Bucerias but now RETIRED
Our first couple of weeks of being retired was spent getting ready for a 5 week trip to Mexico. Now we are here again in Bucerias (just North of Puerta Vallarta) for a couple of weeks. We were here last year (see post) for a month and it is making an easy transition for us…