Looking for a way to make the winter pass by quickly? Sign up for a spring marathon. A couple of weeks ago I registered for the Pittsburgh Marathon, which is May 2. (Less than two-and-a-half months away). After running several marathons over the past few years, I didn’t run any in 2009. Cold, Snowy and [...]
Posts under ‘Mexico’
A Simple Rationale For Saying ‘No’ to Drugs
The handsome baby boomer-aged couple smokes a joint behind the bushes outside a graduation party. When they return in their altered state to the gathering awkward moments and hilarity ensues. This was a scene in the movie It’s Complicated, starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin. It seems harmless enough. The pot, we are [...]
Intrepid Traveler Dispatch: Puerto Vallarta
In this Intrepid Traveler Dispatch, Jim and Tim go to Puerto Vallarta to pick up a vase and find great food, whales, and racoons! THE TRIP: Puerto Vallarta WHO: Jim and Tim WHY: Jim’s 50th Birthday and to pick up a vase that I had won in a charity raffle WHEN: January 14 – 24, [...]
Intrepid Traveler Dispatch: Mexico by Motorcycle
In this Intrepid Traveler Dispatch, photographer Skip Hunt tells us about his motorcycle ride through Mexico. At times, he says, parts of the country feel like a portal to another dimension—even without the benefit of mind-altering substances found to grow there (more on that later). At the end of each entry is a link to [...]
How Suzy Got Her Groove Back in Oaxaca
Suzy DiSanto–a 45-year-old wife and mother in Durango, Colorado was feeling bored and uninspired. But attending a Salsa dance retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico put the spice back into her life. THE TRIP: Salsa Retreat, an 8-day dance vacation and Salsa workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico. WHO: Suzy DiSanto –45 years old, married for 20 years, and [...]
Intrepid Traveler Dispatch: Guanajuato, Mexico
Sean Bagshaw, a professional photographer from Oregon, tells and shows us in vivid detail his month-long trip in Guanajuato, Mexico, which he is still enjoying with his wife and two sons. While Dad is out taking breathtaking pics of the old colonial mining town, Mom and the kids are brushing up on their Spanish at [...]
A Stronger Haiti May Emerge from the Rubble
By any measure the earthquake in Haiti is a disaster of epic proportions. But by some accounts it might present an opportunity to transform the impoverished country into a self-sustaining nation. “It’s terrible to look at it this way, but out of crisis often comes real change,” C. Ross Anthony, the Rand Corp.’s global health [...]
Mexico Says Adios to 2009, Hola Bicentennial
The passing of 2009 marks the end of what Queen Elizabeth II would describe as Annus Horribilis for Mexico. Queen Elizabeth coined the term in 1992 to describe a year in which much of the royal family plagued by scandalous marital woes and the Windsor Castle caught fire. By comparison, the problems Mexico endured last [...]
Writer Richard Grant Discusses Dark Side of Mexico
Within the first sentences of his book “God’s Middle Finger” we find the nonfiction book’s author Richard Grant pressed up against the bark of a pine tree as a group of men hunt for him at night in a small town in Durango, Mexico. Whether Grant is writing about life in Mexico’s Sierra Madre or [...]
Feeling Good by Doing Good in Mexico
In this guest post, Theresa Russell describes how a one-week stint at a Spanish language school in Morelia, Mexico helped her lay the groundwork for a one-month voluntourism experience in Querètaro. She offers some tips on how you can find a worthwhile voluntourism experience too. By Theresa Russell It’s funny how our volunteer experience at [...]
