When FOMO Met YOLO
Chicago’s most obvious benefits are Chicago-centric: museums, galleries, restaurants, neighborhoods… The less obvious benefits are regional. Chicago is hard by a ton of really interesting places and beautiful sights. The Indiana Dunes are an hour…
Don’t get me wrong. We love Marrakech. But we don’t love everything about Marrakech. It feels like Morocco is on a ton of people’s bucket lists, and Marrakech is at the top of the bucket. It’s also easily accessible…
As it happens, the answer to that question depends entirely on what day you’re there. The Mexican government opened a cruise ship dock at Mahhahual in 2001, which absolutely transformed the little village. I guess…
Laguna Bacalar is a crystal clear lagoon under 40 minutes by bus from Chetumal. It was created when a series of cenotes collapsed into one another, making the largest freshwater lake in Mexico. It’s long…
Our more worldly readers will know that our current location, Chetumal, is in the state of Quintana Roo, as is the rest of the Riviera Maya (Cancun, Cozumel, Tulum…). I love that the name sounds…
We arrived in Habana, if just barely, on April 6th. Our local friend Jenn, halfway between fairy godmother and witch, had made arrangements for a group tour of one of Cuba’s oldest cities, Trinidad, on…
When I was 13, my parents took me out of school for a year to traverse North America in a travel trailer. My father had had a health scare, so to reduce the stress level…
I’ll confess to a fraught relationship with colonial architecture. On the one hand, there are plenty of breathtaking, soaring monuments to… the other hand. Early in our time together, Dorothy and I thought it would…
Imagine that a cave full of stalactites, stalagmites, and bizarre stone formations had been uprooted by the gods and turned inside out, exposing its guts to the air. Or just visit Hierve el Agua (the…
The city parks in Oaxaca de Juarez look green on the map. And they have trees. They definitely have trees. But they’re more paving-and-planter-beds than the expanses of green we expect of an urban American…