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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 1: MZT-GDL-Guanajuato
Off we go, onto the cuota highway… We departed Mazatlán about 7 am Saturday after picking up our beautiful niece Mara. The car was pretty full, with a cooler full of food and drinks, 4 people and all...
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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 2: Guanajuato
We slept in till we woke up this morning, which felt absolutely fantastic on this first day of vacation. Once we all showered and got ready to go out, our first stop was, predictably, for a...
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Palm Sunday Parade Guanajuato
This was a parade on the evening of Palm Sunday 2011 in Guanajuato. The last few weeks of Jesus’ life, minus the first Moses float, of course Filed under: Events and Holidays, Travel in México Tagged:...
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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 3: Valencia Mine Guanajuato
The Valenciana mines in Guanajuato are old–1500s. They are still active, mining silver, gold, copper, and other minerals. We walked down into one of the tunnels, and heard about the history of...
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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 3: GTO-Zacatecas
We are very, very happy with our hotel here in Zacatecas: Mesón de Jobito. It was a mesón, then it was a neighborhood of several streets and dozens of houses, now it’s a mesón again. The Zacatecas...
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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 5: Zacatecas
We slept in till LATE today, at the princess’ request, then Greg and I spent an hour or so reading in our courtyard before the kids showed up. We ate breakfast right here in the hotel courtyard. Let’s...
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Types of Kisses
In Callejón del Beso in Guanajuato there were quite a few young men who for tips would recite the legend of the star-crossed lovers (rich girl lives in house on left with balcony, poor miner rents a...
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Travelogue Spring Break 2011, Day 6, Holy/Maundy Thursday: Zacatecas
The kids slept in again this morning, so Greg and I took a walk around the Centro Histórico and found a nice little crepería, “Magic Kreep.” They made the most perfect cup of cappuccino. And, you know,...
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