Spoonbridge and Cherry Travel writers can be a judge-y breed. And that’s not always a bad thing. You have to be critical when you’re giving your readers the information they need to make important vacation decisions. So you take out your microscope, you examine what makes a destination tick,...

I didn’t expect too much from Leipzig when we arrived for the second portion of the SATW convention.After all, Dresden had been such a delight – and we had very little time to see it all. And while Leipzig has some cool historic buildings, such as the Altes Rathaus (town hall) above, they...

      Visiting Dresden proved to the biggest surprise of our week-long trip to the cities that had been a part of the former East Germany.           I knew that Dresden had been considered one of the most beautiful cities in Europe before World War II – which is allegedly one...

I’m trying to play things cool today. But inside I’m jumping up and down like a kid. I won, I won, I won! (a silver Lowell Thomas award for best travel blog) The Lowell Thomas travel writing awards, sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, are the main writing awards...

                            With everything that’s been on my plate, it’s taken forever to write up the final notes from my October trip to Colonial Mexico. For our last stop on our four-day tour through central Mexico highlands, we spent two days in San Miguel de Allende....

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...

My recent trip to Mexico encompassed several towns that are known for their religious fervor, including San Juan de los Lagos and Atotonilco.

The following is a guest post, written by fellow SATW member Amy Weirick. The day that I went to Tequila, she visited a traditional Huichol temazcal, or sweat lodge, located outside Guadalajara. I asked her to write something about the experience – especially after our group discovered that two people...

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...