The Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera in Mexico City
The Mexican Revolution, a civil war that raged from 1910 to 1920, ousted the hated dictator Porfirio Díaz and created a new era with the government being in the hands […]
Category Archives: Mexico & Central America
Art Unexpected: Driftwood
My dad used to take us kids wandering along the beaches of the Pacific West Coast where there was driftwood galore. Every often he’d find something the reminded him of […]
Bus Trip from Manzanillo to Lázaro Cárdenas
The bus we had caught in the middle of a dusty industrial zone in PV arrived in the middle of a dusty industrial zone in Manzanillo, nowhere near our hotel […]
Manzanillo on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
Despite several people advising us that Manzanillo was not much I was really looking forward to it primarily because we had never been there before. The bus that we had […]
First Leg of Our Trip Down the Mexican Coast: Puerto Vallarta to Manzanillo
For this trip in November & December of 2019 we decided to try something different, going by bus from Puerto Vallarta all along the Mexican coast ending in Huatulco (La […]
Whale-Watching in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Gina*, the Information Goddess, gathers us up for a session of whale watching in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. There were about 12 boats heading out for the first day of the […]
Puerto Vallarta’s Fantastic Acrobatic Show at the Amphitheatre
First off, I don’t know the name of this troupe and I couldn’t find it anywhere. If you know please let me know – this was one of the best […]
