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When I’ve stayed at resorts in Mexico I’ve sometimes felt as though I were living in a movie set. The hotel lobby is clean and well decorated, the pool and the beach are a few steps away, and the staff is eager to fulfill my wish for another drink. But just below the surface, I [...]

In this Intrepid Traveler Dispatch contributor David Dudar recounts his trip to Mexico City. While the D.F. is only a short plane ride away from the U.S., David tells us why it feels so exotic and far from home. It’s also a picturesque city that is within range to a multitude of worthwhile day trips. [...]

When someone who speaks English arrives late to the bus stop and sees the bus rolling down the street without her, she will describe this as having “missed the bus.” The underlying premise is that because she arrived late, she forfeited her opportunity to ride on the bus. It was her fault. But Spanish speakers [...]

Yesterday’s post took the New York Times Frugal Traveler–Seth Kugel– to task for some of the over-the-top money-saving strategies he employed in Nicaragua. I also noted that I detected a “whiff of smugness” from his negative comments about León, the country’s second-largest city. In a comment he posted on Travelojos last night, Seth responded to [...]

One of my favorite things about Latin America is how affordable it is. The dollar is so strong throughout the region that it’s often unnecessary to give a second thought to the prices charged by all but the fanciest hotels or restaurants. But you’d never know that from reading the latest installment of the New [...]

Few things are worse than a bad vacation. One of the worst varieties of this experience is the horrible cruise. My friend was just telling me about a terrible cruise he took with his in-laws  a few weeks ago. It was crowded on the deck, in the dining room and everywhere else on the ship. [...]

“It was a family trip and we wanted to have our own space instead of being spread out across three hotel rooms,” Michelle Walters said about her July trip to Cozumel, Mexico. Michelle was explaining why she opted for a vacation rental instead of a resort of hotel. For Chris Carlson renting a condo in [...]

The subject of this week’s Saturday Saying seems pre-destined—even though it’s one-day late.  Earlier this week Cathy over at Expat Daily South America interviewed the Argentina-based British expat Sorrel Moseley-Williams.  Sorrel is a journalist and broadcaster in Buenos Aires. Cathy’s interview was entertaining as usual, so I tweeted about it. Sorrel responded by tweeting: Thank [...]

My wife and I were having dinner at a restaurant in Monteverde, Costa Rica that looked like it was offering just the sort of experience we were looking for.  It wasn’t a typical restaurant –it was more like a tree house–because it was suspended by a huge Ficus tree. Our table on the second floor [...]

When I e-mailed author Johnny Rico last year for a review copy of his book Border Crosser, he declined my request. His story about his experience sneaking across the U.S./Mexico border just as a Mexican immigrant would was more about immigration and took place mostly in the U.S.—there was no travelogue aspect with Mexico, he [...]