Just 27 miles South-East of Oaxaca City sits the town of Mitla, home to an archeological site at the heart of Zapotec culture and one of the most popular tourist destinations for visitors of Oaxaca. While we tend to avoid “touristy” locations, we can also...
Welcome to one of the wildest places in Mexico. Despite being a tourist destination, it’s so unique and bizarre that it’s totally worth the visit. Natural rock formations pour over the cliff like melting ice cream, overflowing 200 feet down the sides of the mountain....
Joshua Tree National Park is like something from another planet - wide open desert filled with bizarre trees, piles of boulders the size of mountains, gold-mining ruins and surprising oases, surrounded by craggy mountains in the distance. ...
San Miguel de Allende is just the best. I really, really love it and am so grateful to call it home. Around these parts though, everyone talks about how good it is to come back to San Miguel because much of the local and expat...
Adventure is somehow best when it’s unexpected. In Hidalgo State, central-eastern Mexico, we find ourselves in one of the oldest protected forests in Mexico, El Chico National Park. This is precisely the type of place we spend our adventures looking for, hunting through locals’ recommendations...
As long as I’ve been in Mexico, I’ve been hearing about Tolantongo. This proverbial oasis in the desert is a beacon for tourists, national and expat alike, to pretend for a weekend that they aren’t landlocked in a desert and melt into the thermal waters...
We’ve seen a lot of Mexico. After 9 years exploring, you’d expect no less. But Mexico is an enormously diverse country, topographically and culturally. That’s why, after all this time, I keep stumbling across gems....
We just enjoyed some time in Costalegre, soaking up the sun and sea. Costalegre is located in Jalisco, between Bahia de Chamela and Playa del Oro. While there, we happened upon 3 little towns that we really liked. Quiet, relaxed and spectacularly beautiful, these low-season...