Tag Archives: travel

The Culture Shock of Coming Home

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

If I got in my car this too-hot afternoon, I could be in Juarez in time for dinner. When we drive across the Rio Grande for Sunday lunch with his grandparents, I tell my son that if we built a … Continue reading →

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Adiós to Mexico

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

My keyboard looks like a pirate’s maw, gaping holes that were once keys, stains on others, and my hard drive is jammed full of photographs: pyramids, pink stone, parades, fireworks behind cathedral spires, and hundreds of hotel rooms I could … Continue reading →

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Real Mexican Food: Gaspacho Moreliano

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

            Surprisingly few people know about Morelia, the beautiful city in the center of Mexico. I admit that, even if it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the capital of Michoacán, I had never heard of it when my … Continue reading →

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Dia del Niño

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

“When we see a pretty flower, we stop to look at it and smell it, right?” My son keeps his face hidden. He gets shy when strangers gush at him. “And seeing that flower makes us happy, right?” He nods … Continue reading →

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Good Friday: A Child Meets Jesus in Mexico

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

  “Who is that man?” my son asks as soon as we arrive. The man playing Jesus is wearing a white tunic. There is fake blood on his face. I take a deep breath and leap. “Do you remember at … Continue reading →

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Tips for Traveling with Children

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Travel shouldn’t be torture, but it can feel that way when you have children with you. Like everything else that the parenting life throws at you, however, the more you do it, the easier it gets. Because of jobs and … Continue reading →

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Travel With Your Children

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Yes, it’s difficult; but what isn’t? Yes, it’s not what it used to be; but what else is new since you became a parent? Yes, you have to pack half your house; but do it anyway. Travel with your children. … Continue reading →

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Sweet Mexican Education

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

(My latest Love in Mexico correspondence essay is live on National Geographic’s Glimpse.org. An excerpt is below, or read the whole thing here.) “Dulce, dulce, dulce, dulce,” sings my two-year-old son as I stroller him over cobblestones. Yes, “candy” is … Continue reading →

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Is Travel to Mexico Safe?

Posted on March 11, 2011 by

Morelia, Mexico   Two articles have come to my attention this week, one an op-ed in the Washington Post by Edith R. Wilson, a former advisor to the World Bank, and a post by CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg, the … Continue reading →

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My “Under the Mexican Sun”?: On Imagination and Travel

Posted on March 6, 2011 by

Is it lack of imagination that makes us come to imagined places, not just stay at home? “Questions of Travel” by Elizabeth Bishop Driving across Guatemala in my old Salvadoran Volvo, Steve and I planned a school we would open … Continue reading →

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