Adam Paxton

We took advantage of the long weekend, or puente, to take a trip to Acapulco.  It's about a 6 hour drive from Mexico City, unless there's traffic.  There is always traffic. This was our first trip by bus to a beach destination, and my first trip to Acapulco.  Gretchen had gone there for a night for work and stayed at the Las Brisas Hotel, and had really liked it, so we headed there...

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Mexico's most popular lucha libre wrestler of all time, El Santo, made dozens of films throughout his career, most of them having titles beginning "El Santo contra ... " and then insert the name of the villain of that particular film, such as Zombies, Female Vampires, Dr. Death, etc.  One of the better known titles is "El Santo contra Las Momias de Guanajuato", perhaps this is because there ...

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Mexico celebrated Independence day last week (what, they celebrate Cinco de Mayo in September?), so we took advantage of the extra vacation day to make a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico, about four and a half hours north of Mexico City by bus.

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Back in May of 2009, Gretchen and I were flying back to Mexico City from the U.S., when I ran across a newspaper article on the plane about an upcoming wine and cheese festival in Mexico. It was being held the following weeking in Tequisquiapan, Mexico, a town about an hour and a half's bus ride north of Mexico City that was noted for their vineries and, I suppose, cheese-making places.

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Hard to believe it has been almost a year and a half since Gretchen and I visited Buenos Aires. We toured the city and surrounding countryside near the tail-end of February, 2008, which coincided with the last weeks of summer in this country (way) south of the equator.

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