Posts in Category: Mexico
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Puerto Vallarta – Revolution Day Surprises
People are always asking me why I go to Mexico, a place they consider, only because they haven’t been there, one of the scariest and most dangerous places on the planet. They don’t know what they were talking about. That was my opinion until today, when on a visit to the Malecón in Puerto Vallarta […]
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Creel – Miracle of Stone & Water
This is my third post on the 2019 SATW pre-conference trip to the Copper Canyon area of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. In the first I described the incredible train ride from the city of Chihuahua to Copper Canyon aboard the last passenger train in Mexico, El Chepe. In the second, I explored the wonders […]
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Copper Canyon – Mexico’s Most Amazing Wonder
In my last post I described the wonderful train ride from Chihuahua to Divisidero on board Mexico’s last passenger train, El Chepe. My destination was Copper Canyon, one of seven canyons or barrancas as they are called in Mexico, that make up the largest and one of the deepest canyon systems in the world. In […]
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El Chepe – Mexico’s Last Great Train Ride
The 2019 SATW conference in El Paso produced some very nice surprises, including the city itself, but nothing surpassed the train ride to Copper Canyon on El Chepe. Mexico once used to be criss-crossed with passenger trains from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific and from the United States border to the Yucatan peninsula. […]
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Guadalajara – Mexico’s Enigmatic Second City
This is my twentieth and final post from last year’s inaugural Central Mexico tour with Victor Romagnoli put on by Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. It comes just in time as Victor sets off again on this tour in just a few weeks – October 28, 2019 to be precise. The last post featured Michoacan […]
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Michoacan – Morelia, Tzintzuntzan & Patzcuaro
We are coming to the end of the second week of what has so far been an amazing historical, cultural and gastronomical tour through central Mexico with Adventures Abroad’s veteran guide Victor Romagnoli. Today we left the city of Guanajuato which I described in my last post as the most unexpected and pleasant surprise of […]
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Guanajuato – Mexico’s Most Magical City?
This is my eighteenth post from last year’s inaugural Central Mexico with Victor Romagnali offered by Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. It was one of the best overall trips Alison and I have ever been on and traveling with Victor always guarantees a great cultural, historical and gustatory experience. Our last stop was in the very […]
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San Miguel de Allende – Meeting Old Friends
This is my seventeenth post on last year’s Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with ace guide Victor Romagnoli and although it is getting near the end, there are still a number of truly magical places to visit. In this post I’ll feature the small city of San Miguel de Allende. In the last post […]
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Tula – Mysterious City of the Toltecs
We continue on our amazing Adventures Abroad journey through central Mexico with veteran guide Victor Romagnoli as our small group approaches the ruins of the ancient Toltec city of Tula. Our last stop was at Teotihuacan which more than lived up to its billing as one of the greatest pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the New […]