Mexico City is one of the world’s largest urban centers, and its population continues to grow at a rate unequaled by any other area in the nation. The Mexico City region has long been the center of economic and political activity in Mexico. The area where the City lies today has been a center of […]
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Internet Access: Above “Doc’s Restaurant”. Fast, satellite connection, friendly service. English spoken. Laundry: At the Bungalows” or 1 block toward town from the river and 1 block toward beach from main street. Groceries: Largest selection at grocery across from town plaza. Public telephone: Next to Argentine restaurant near town plaza and across from grocery store. […]
Continue ReadingYour cab deposits you outside the arched entrance to the pastel stucco hotel, and as you pass through its main portal, you are transported to another dimension, another time, to a village in Spain perhaps, or to a romantic hacienda or convent of the colonial era. You pinch yourself, thinking this unusually attractive place cannot possibly be […]
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A first visit to Oaxaca, capital of Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, should begin at the zócalo, the town plaza. There’s always something going on there, for Oaxaca is a town of festivals: the Night of the Radishes on December 23, where farmers display fantastically carved giant radishes; the Festival of Lunes del Cerro (Monday of the Hill) in […]
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Puerto Escondido is a travelers’ and vacationers’ market right now. Tourism is down this year to perhaps a third of its normal level. One government official told us that if it were not for “old timers like you we would have no one here.” [ Aside: The “old timer” comment referred to the fact that we’ve been […]
Continue ReadingNOTE: There are two versions. The first is Annotated and the second, Point Form. At the end are additional comments. Annotated – Incremental Mileage Warren Howard The following assumes you have an FM-2/3 visa and a car permit. Make sure you fill the tank before leaving the US, as the gas prices are close to 40% cheaper in […]
Continue ReadingI doubt any experience Ernest Hemingway had in Spain, or Africa, or at The Compleat Angler on Bimini could top my entrance into family life at El Mirador. Daniel Casas, a man I never met, started building the El Mirador hotel in 1990 and it was completed in 1995. He died eight months before I […]
Continue ReadingMañana is a Mexican word that I struggle to understand. I continue to learn more about this word every time that I travel in Mexico. One of my earliest lessons was learned at the lighthouse that protects the eastern point of Bahía la Ventana in Baja California Sur. The beacon guards boats from danger in the […]
Continue ReadingZONA LATINA MEXICO RADIO-TV SECRETARIA DE COMUNICACIONES Y TRANSPORTES OTHER WEBSITES STATION PLAYLIST Radio aficionados have turned to the Internet to tune in to favorite stations across the country and across the globe. Those interested in listening to live broadcasts of Mexican radio can turn down the receiver and preset URLs instead of AM or […]
Continue ReadingThe amazing phenomena of the Monarch butterfly migration is with us again. At the end of summer hundreds of millions of monarchs fly an incredible average of 1,800 miles from the United States and Canada to a small region in nearby Michoacan where they spend the winter before embarking on the return journey. Some of […]
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