I was happy to leave San José de Gracia this morning, and decided to stop in the state capital of Aguascalientes on my way to Calvillo. Where I am now. Sitting in front of a fan in my Airbnb because it is very hot here.
I’m now in my hotel room in San José de Gracia, after leaving Zacatecas this morning and spending a good part of the day in Asientos. Before leaving Zacatecas, I enjoyed a final breakfast at Acropolis, the same place I had breakfast my first morning. I went early, and it’s a good thing, because by…
When I was planning my trip, I wasn’t sure I’d make it to Sombrerete. It’s a two-hour drive from Zacatecas, and I thought I might prefer to spend my time seeing sights in the city. But I made the trip yesterday. And it turned out to be one of the high points of the trip. Only it…
I believe I left off having just arrived in Zacatecas and gotten settled in my Airbnb at the end of the privada. Now, after a day and morning, I can report on what I’ve seen and done so far.
Today’s road trip agenda: a visit to Pinos and arrival in Zacatecas, where I am spending the next five nights.
The first stop on my first Mexican road trip was Lagos de Moreno. I arrived yesterday (Sunday) around 1:00, and my Airbnb wasn’t ready yet, so I went for a walk until I could get in. By about 1:30 I was able to check in, and after unloading the car, I set out to explore…
I’m looking forward to my upcoming road trip, and I’m trying to learn a little about the places I’m going, my stops and stays, before I leave. I’m happy to share some of my research with my friends and family and whoever else reads my blog. If you don’t want all the details, here’s a TL;DR…
So guess what that means: I’m going to take a road trip!
I am in Mazamitla now. The north shore of Lake Chapala, where I live, is said to have some of the best weather in the world. The sun shines pretty much every day, year-round. Temperatures are warm, mostly not too hot or too cold. And even during the rainy season, from June until September or…
In early January 2020 I booked a tour to Jordan, Israel, and Palestine for October and November of that year. I postponed the trip last summer, scheduling it instead for October and November 2021. Then, this week, I decided to postpone it again. I’ve rebooked for February and March of 2022.
Early last year, before the global pandemic put the kibosh on the trips I was going to take, I was lucky to do some traveling. I have officially postponed my trip to the Middle East until the fall of 2021, and I’m about 50–50 on whether to postpone further. I could just skip adding any…
After a promising start, 2020 turned out to be a bust for travel. In January I took a three-day trip to see the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in eastern Michoacán, with two nights in Morelia and a stop in Pátzcuaro on the way home. And in February I had the chance to visit Cuba with…
