I’ve put together two trip reports so far from my week in Mexico: Guadalajara and Guanajuato. San Miguel de Allende is still to come (and may have to wait until I get back from the Caribbean). I really loved this region of Mexico, Guanajuato in particular. I would love to go back and study Spanish...

So you think that reminders of the swine flu are omnipresent in the US? In Mexico, where the pandemic originated last spring, people are still cautious, particularly around food. Protective face masks were common on vendors at Romeria, the sacred procession of the Lady of Zapapon that draws nearly 2...