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 Allende.

 “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...

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...

(Potcake Place in Providenciales - One of my first video efforts) Recently I received a query from Tim Shisler, a freelance travel journalist in Colorado who will be speaking on the importance of multimedia at the upcoming SATW conference. We had struck up a conversation on Twitter and he asked me...