Note: This guest post was written in 2019 and reflects the cost of living in San Miguel de Allende at that time. Prices have changed considerably since then, so the figures below should be treated as a historical snapshot rather than current costs. San Miguel Allende...
Note: This guest post was written in 2018 and reflects the cost of living in Guanajuato at that time. Prices have changed considerably since then, so the figures below should be treated as a historical snapshot rather than current costs. Living in Guanajuato, Mexico...
Note: This guest post was written in 2016 and reflects the cost of living in Northern California and Baja California at that time. Prices have changed considerably since then, so the figures below should be treated as a historical snapshot rather than current costs....
Getting to Oventic After an hour-long hellish cab ride from San Cristobal de las Casas, through the spectacular central highlands of Chiapas, we finally arrived at the autonomous Zapatista community of Oventic. This place isn’t on maps, the residents are...
Riding Horses into the Cloud Forest at Rancho La Escondida When my friends Chris and Rachel Larsen invited me to go along with them to meet someone who had a ranch deep in Zapatista country near Teopisca, Chiapas I was intrigued. I had driven through Zapatista...
Only ten minutes from the center of San Cristobal the preserve also protects 100 hectares of oak forests. There are great walking trails with beautiful views of the city, an amphitheater, beautiful works of modern sculpture and a unique greenhouse designed to...
(Update June 2018 – Atalaia, Portugal – After I left Mexico, Wes and I kept in touch and, as travelers often do, we met up again. This time in June 2016, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We continued our friendship as if no time had passed and had a few more crazy...
