While GB collects his thoughts for ever-so-many posts, here's The Iron Palate with a swell discovery of a new-to-us tropical fruit: the fabulous chicozapote. I finally took a flyer on these fuzzy-skinned, oblong, brown fruit objects I’ve been seeing in the sooper mart for a while. I had no clue what they were or how…
We entered Mexico one year ago today. Happy anniversary to us, and Viva Mexico! We arrived in Ensenada on October 1, 2007, so now is the time our Mexican fishing licenses and liability insurance are up for renewal, and we calendar ahead for January the renewal of our Mexican FM-3 visas and Mexican National Park permits. The…
We’ve been traveling in Mexico for almost a full year now, yet we still hear other cruisers – even those who have been here at least as long as we have – lament: “There’s no wine in Mexico!!” Allow me to retort. I’ve said it before: the Guadalupe Valley northeast of Ensenada is the premier…
Hurricane season will soon end, which means that Cruising-To-Mexico season will soon begin out here on the Pacific side of the continent. There are many sites and blogs that discuss how to properly outfit a boat and otherwise prepare for the long coastal trip from Point A (wherever you are in Canada or the US)…
August is a nice time to visit Guanajuato. It's the off-season so the locals remark how uncrowded it is. My goodness, I'd hate to see it any busier – the streets and the sidewalks were just packed. It is a hilly city, and its historic district is full of narrow streets and a network of…
GB and Cap'n George returned home to Mazatlan yesterday evening, after a successful sailboat delivery. All is well, and I'm eating meals again that include sauces, and more than two ingredients. Heh. m
Happy Independence Day, Mexico – and a good many more! m
Guanajuato is an old Spanish Colonial silver-mining city that is located near Mexico's mountainous geographic center. The climate is cool, dry and sunny; and the buildings and their surroundings are so pretty and colorful it's hard to recall Guanajuato's bloody past. Guanajuato was at the center of the Mexican Revolution of 1810 – the revolutionthat Mexico celebrates…
The Sanctuary at Atotonilco, about 8 miles north-ish of San Miguel de Allende, was started by Father Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro in 1740. An artist from Querétaro, Martin Antonio Martínez de Pocasangre, painted Father Neri's poems and sermons on the walls of the sanctuary. And on the ceilings. And the doors. Inside and out. What's…
About a month ago when we thought it was as hot and humid as it could get in Mazatlan,* GB decided on a trip to higher (cooler, drier) ground. We took an 8-day loop by Primera Plus bus to explore the old Spanish Colonial towns of San Miguel de Allende, Atotonilco and Guanajuato. All are located…