Piña colada time at Isla de Ixtapa © 2020 Jane Simon Ammeson

Pangas and piña coladas: a laid-back lunch on Isla de Ixtapa, Guerrero

Greg knows the old way—or so he says—but all I can see is an empty stretch of sand and water where the southern tip of Playa Quieta ends at a rocky outcropping of rocks jutting out into the Bahia de Palmar. When I lived here, he explains, this is where we caught the pangas going […]

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The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa

The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood

The first traces of an awakening sun touch the morning horizon, brushing aside the night’s long shadows. On the streets of Ixtapalapa, a working class neighborhood 30 minutes by cab from the center of Mexico City, young men – some in the dress of the Jerusalem of 2000 years ago – shuffle by hurriedly. Many […]

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Stephanie Seacord

Stephanie Seacord is a freelance travel writer who lives in New Hampshire and contributes to The Boston Globe, www.womentraveling.com, Sail, Yachting and Travel Weekly. Previously a hotel and tourism marketing specialist, she helped Omni Hotels open the Omni Cancun and Omni Ixtapa and made the trip to Chitchen Itza before the new highway opened.

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