Shrimp ice cream and the Mexican War of Independence. They go together like….say what? It only makes sense once you’ve been to Dolores, Mexico, a town of about 55,000 halfway between the colonial cities of Guanajuato and the expat haven, San Miguel de AllendePoor Dolores is nowhere near...

“Viva la Lady del Zapopan! Viva la Maria!” Imagine nearly a million people packed into a square, waving white handkerchiefs, singing and dancing as they cheer the return of a foot-high Virgin Mary icon  to their home cathedral, and you’ll understand the joy behind Romeria, the...

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...

I knew little about how Mexico’s top liquor was made, until I visited the town of Tequila Saturday. Although tequila is made in four Mexican states, mostly in the country’s central-Pacific mountain valleys, Tequila in Jalisco – about 90 minutes outside Guadalajara –  is the...

Just days after the CDC lifted the swine flu travel advisory to Mexico last May, I visited Cancun and the Riviera Maya for a story on how the area was doing. Report is here. Things have changed since then – hotel occupancy rates in Cancun have nearly doubled from around 43% at Memorial Day to more...