Cultivating curiosity and wellbeing in Mexico
Morelia is the capital of the state of Michoacan, Mexico. It is Michoacan’s largest city and features an abundance of beautiful colonial architecture. It is the birthplace of José María Morelos y Pavón (1765), a hero of the Mexican independence movement. The city, which was called Valladolid from 1545 to 1828, Continue Reading →
In going through my old travel journals, I came across photos (taken on my first digital camera at what is now a miserably low quality!) and a journal entry that describe a fabulous restaurant, Restaurante Bar Atzimba, in the Michoacan town of Quiroga. It was 2001, and we were on Continue Reading →
The INAH, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico was founded in 1939 under the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas with the goal of preserving, investigating, and disseminating knowledge of the country’s rich heritage. Part of its task has been the restoration, conservation, and cataloging of the national archaeological, historical, Continue Reading →
I don’t know how well cute describes an archaeological site, but that’s the closest term I can find for the neat and compact ruins that are found just outside the town of Tingambato between Uruapan and Patzcuaro, Michoacan. Besides the archaeological site of Xihuacan (also called La Soledad de Maciel Continue Reading →
We’re privileged in this area of Zihuatanejo to be within an easy day’s drive of the southern extreme of the North American monarch butterfly migration phenomenon that this video features. If you’re here in Zihuatanejo and have the time and inclination for a side trip into the mountains, it is Continue Reading →
We often like to get out of Zihua town for a couple of days, especially in hot weather, and spend time in the cool mountains of Michoacan, in Uruapan or Patzcuaro, where the nights and mornings are usually cool (or cold!) and the smells of wood smoke and resin are Continue Reading →
Northward of Zihuatanejo on the coast of the neighboring Mexican state Michoacan is the town of Caleta de Campos and the surfing community of Barra de Nexpa. We regularly take weekend trips there from Zihuatanejo for a change of scenery. The drive takes you along the coast and past the Continue Reading →