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Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

MEXICO | Monday, 26 Nov 2007 | Views [623]

  We are camping again at the best campground ever.   Hotel Pepe RV Park is in Tepotzotlan, about 25 miles north of Mexico City.   We have a football size grassy area to ourselves, electricity and an outdoor kitchen.   Our own toilets and showers ... Read more >

Tags: Culture


Monarchs of Mexico

MEXICO | Friday, 23 Nov 2007 | Views [546]

  In a corner of the state of Michoacán, 10,000 feet above sea level, hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies congregate to spend the winter.   They come from Canada and the Midwest U.S.   They begin their 5000 kilometer journey in summer and ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors


Try saying "Guanajuato"

MEXICO | Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Views [659]

It seems that once you meet another camper you can’t help but run into them again…and again!   When we returned from Guanojuato today Art and Gillian who we had met in Zacatecas were camped nearby.   Tony and Susan, our new friends, had met them last ... Read more >

Tags: friends


Zacatecas

MEXICO | Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 | Views [880]

We spent the last two nights in Zacatecas, the northernmost of Mexico’s famous silver cities and a UNESCO World Heritage site.    It is a hilly town of narrow, winding cobbled streets, climbing stairways and pastel houses.   The centerpiece of Zacatecas ... Read more >

Tags: Culture


Still going

MEXICO | Saturday, 17 Nov 2007 | Views [575]

Our first week has taken us down the center of Mexico from Cuidad Juarez to Zacatecos with a side trip to Barranca del Cobre or Copper Canyon.   We are averaging just over 250 miles a day, not bad considering the 50 mph speed limit most of the way.... Read more >

Tags: Culture


Crossing over

MEXICO | Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [695]

Our friend Mike had hoped to travel along with us for a few weeks, as much to learn how to camp, he said, as to see Copper Canyon.   He wanted us “veterans” to shepherd him through the border crossing into Mexico, little knowing that each crossing ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


The Migration

USA | Sunday, 11 Nov 2007 | Views [600]

We are not the only ones heading south.    We have been following the migrating sandhill cranes since Alaska.     Aldo Leopold remarked on what a strange lot we birders are.   When birders also have a passion for photography we appear to be queer ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Gallery: john and connie Mexico

MEXICO | Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Photo Gallery

Culture and history in Mexico
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Restless

USA | Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Views [621]

We have been back from Alaska now for over two months and we are getting restless to see more of the world.  What drives us isn't the explorer spirit; explorers seek adventure and by our definition an "adventure" is a journey gone wrong.  Our ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase


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