Mexico

Grutas Tolantongo Hot Springs

About 80 miles outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Grutas Tolantongo hot springs. It’s a beautiful spot surrounded by mountains where pools have been built fed by the natural warm mineral water. The trip from CDMX took…

Mexico | June 6, 2025

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Let's Go to the Post Office

While I think that sending physical mail is something that is becoming less and less common in favor of electronic communication, I do have a handful of people in my life who I send and receive mail from, usually greeting cards or…

Mexico | June 2, 2025

Chrissy

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Palacio de Bellas Artes is a stunning theater which was built about 100 years ago. Construction started in 1910 but was disrupted by the country's revolution and so it wasn't completed until 1930. The building is beautiful inside…

Mexico | June 2, 2025

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Transportation in CDMX

Transportation within Mexico City is what you’d expect from any modern city. Taxis, buses, trains, rideshare all are present and work as you’d expect. Mexico City’s traffic is notoriously congested but it is certainly worse in…

Mexico | June 1, 2025

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Xochimilco

About an hour outside of Mexico City is where you'll find Xochimilco (sow·chee·meel·kow), home to a series of floating islands. Though, they aren't actually floating islands, they only appear that way. The islands are connected to…

Mexico | May 31, 2025

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On My Mexico City Bookshelf

Our apartment in Mexico City is tastefully furnished with comfortable seating, gentle lighting, and numerous bookshelves containing a wide variety of books in Spanish and in English. Titles range from Lecciones de Dermatología…

Mexico | May 27, 2025

Chrissy

Tourist week in CDMX

This strange new world of slow travel has us enjoying the amazing privilege of just rolling with whatever we feel like doing. In our second week here in Mexico City we decided to actually do more of the touristy things that we’d…

Mexico | May 19, 2025

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Let’s Go to Church

When planning our time in Mexico City a year ago I had a church mapped out, not too far from our apartment, that is the same denomination as we attend in the U.S. (Lutheran). This particular congregation even advertised a…

Mexico | May 13, 2025

Chrissy

First Week in CDMX

We’ve been in Mexico City for one week now and we have managed to check off a number of firsts: Find a local dance scene, and dance! Take the bus Get prescription medicine Visit a doctor in another country Ride in a Chinese car…

Mexico | May 12, 2025

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You did what?? Visited the Dentist!

I expect that will be the initial reaction when family and friends back home learn that one of the first things I did upon leaving the U.S. was to book an appointment to go to the dentist. While some may think it seems like a…

Mexico | May 11, 2025

Chrissy

Castillo de Chapultepec

There’s a large park about 25 minutes away from our place in Polanco, CDMX. There are a number of attractions there including a botanica garden and a museum of anthropology but yesterday we went to visit Castillo de Chapultepec…

Mexico | May 11, 2025

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Las medicinas

One of the things that we’d wanted to accomplish internationally is getting prescription medications. Turns out that in Mexico my cholesterol medicine does not even require a prescription. Yesterday I walked to a nearby farmacia…

Mexico | May 9, 2025

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Mexico City - CDMX

It’s been a long, long time coming but today is the day that our dreams of starting world travel as nomads is now. Yesterday morning we woke up in Houston, Texas and last night we went to sleep in our adorable first floor…

Mexico | May 2, 2025

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