The Latin America Travel Blog
Just before Arizona enacted its law aimed at giving law enforcement officials increased authority to verify people’s immigration status, the Fiscal Policy Institute issued a report contradicting some widely held perceptions about immigrants. It turns out that the typical immigrant isn’t the low skilled laborer in the food or construction industry. Rather, the FPI report [...]
The number of U.S. citizens traveling to Mexico by air so far this year is down compared with the same period last year, according to the U.S. International Trade Administration’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries. In January, 2010, about 440,000 Americans took flights to Mexico. For the same month last year, it was about [...]
When I go to Guatemala later this month it will be the first time I’ve taken a pleasure trip without my wife. The only exception during our marriage of nearly 20 years is some of the trips I’ve taken with old high school or college buddies. Just last fall I spent a weekend at a [...]
Unlike many travel blogs, Travelojos focuses exclusively on Latin America. Limiting my focus to this one region made sense to me because this is the area of the world with which I’m most fascinated. One of the biggest obstacles to getting started was deciding what my blog should be about. Signs. It wasn’t until someone [...]
In Donald Miller’s memoir A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, he begins his story in a funk. Writer’s block keeps him from producing a successful follow up to his best selling book Blue Like Jazz, he has no significant other, and there’s a lack of adventure in his life. His awakening comes when he [...]
Mexico and the U.S. are quietly working out an agreement under which the U.S. would expand Medicare benefits to cover health care in Mexico, according to a recent column by the Miami Herald’s Andres Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer’s column includes some interesting statistics: the nearly 1 million Americans living in Mexico is likely to increase to 5 [...]
There’s a terrific interview with Argentina guidebook writer Sandra Bao on Kate Necochea’s Seashells and Sunflowers blog. Bao contributes to Lonely Planet’s Argentina travel guide, Buenos Aires city guide, and South America on a Shoestring. Here are a few of Bao’s suggestions: Looking for a scenic small town? Try El Chalten. Great tourist services and [...]
On her Across the Border Blog, Anna Cearley details the findings of a recent survey that found that many U.S. retirees are living comfortably in Mexico for less than $1,000 per month. Among the survey’s finding was that Mexico may become an alternative for U.S. retirees facing economic challenges in the future. Given our current [...]
Mexico has two distinct seasons: rainy (May to mid-October) and dry (mid-October to April). Fortunately, rainy season isn’t a total wash out. When I visited Guadalajara in June, rain was in the forecast each day. But there were only a couple of short showers during my stay. One side benefit was that the few weeks [...]
For my last post, I described the four different types of Latin America travel writers: earnest, intrepid, rogue, and smug. Unlike the rest of the varieties, I was unable to come up with an example of a writer who I thought was “smug.” Fortunately, two Travelojos readers came to the rescue. A commenter who goes [...]
