Category: Travel

When I was plotting our trip to Mexico City, I knew that by the end of the trip we’d probably want to totally chill in style. With that in mind, I booked us a night at the fancy-schmancy La Casona boutique hotel in Colonia Roma. The one night we spent at the La Casona cost…

Taxco, a colonial silver mining town, lies about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Mexico City by bus. After packing up our bags and saying goodbye to the Hotel Posada Viena, Tiffany and I walked to the Cuauhtémoc station and took the metro to the Autobus Terminal South. I had already spied the station when we…

To travel to the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan, we had to take the the number 5 metro line to the very northern-most part of DF and buy tickets aboard a bus that would travel the 25 mile distance to the site. Unfortunately, the metro was under construction and we were forced to leave the station…

For our second day in Mexico City, we decided to take the metro to the southern-most part of the city. The voyage involved a transfer to the overground Tren Ligero to visit Xochimilco, the ancient canal and chinampa system that allegedly gives a taste of what life was like in the Pre-Hispanic era. When people…

Mexico City is one of the world’s misunderstood places. The sprawling metropolis, home from anywhere to 12 to 25 million people — depending on who you ask — has a bad rep thanks to its smog, crime and squalor. But after spending a week around the DF (Mexico City is, like our own Washington, DC,…