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Mexico Travel Guide Online

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Mexico likes to think it’s part of North America but is really the gateway to all things Latin for a continent and a half going south. It’s the largest and ...

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The Tunnel Witches of Guanajuato

I live in Mexico and Mexico is NOT Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana or Cabo. If you want to go to a magical city in Mexico you must go ...

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Sleeping Rough in Morelia, Mexico

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It was a long road from my cozy little home in Guanajuato, Mexico to the coast of Michoacan. On the map, it had looked like I could make it in ...

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Facing a Fear

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I’m afraid of water.

It started the summer I was five when my uncle “taught” me to swim by throwing me into the middle of Jones’ pond. My ...

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Baja Surf Trip

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People say a lot of things about California – that it’s the end of civilization, that it’s destined to fall into the sea, that its beauty can be fake ...

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Tortillas, Manana

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“Mexico is slow.”

My friend Tanya told me: a big mama type born and raised in Mexico but with features and build inherited from her Cuban mother. The people in ...

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San Cristobal, Chiapas - Zapatista Story, Mexico

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San Cristobal de las Casas is just a few hours up from the jungle but the air cools dramatically, crisp breezes from the hills replacing the moist breath of the ...

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Palenque Travel Mexico

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Life dripped off every leaf and it was as though we could hear the jungle breathing around us. Sunlight began to filter through the dewy vegetation and we walked like ...

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