CBX (Cross Border Xpress) is a private pedestrian border crossing that takes you from the Otay Mesa area of San Diego directly into the Tijuana airport. While international travelers have used the Tijuana airport to save big on airfare in the past, CBX makes getting to the Tijuana airport incredibly easy. By flying between Guatemala …
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Mexico City is huge, and we had only three days to explore. We stayed in the Centro Historico (at a great vegan-friendly B&B, Chillout Flat.) Most of the vegan-friendly restaurants are in the Condesa and Roma areas, which was a pretty easy taxi ride. We loved Mexico City. After visiting places with large ex-pat communities, …
Our September jaunt through Mexico led us from Lake Chapala to San Miguel de Allende. I’d heard so much about San Miguel, and friends from Guatemala were staying there for several months. We rented the apartment downstairs from them for a week. It was perfectly located, in easy walking distance to the center of town …
Lake Chapala was the our first stop of our three weeks in Mexico in September. My dad and his husband retired here in 2014. Neither of them had lived anywhere but Southern California before, but they took the leap after one visit. As I write this in late December, I’m back at Lake Chapala. Peter, …
Mexico is a huge country. In spite of what Donal Trump thinks, Mexico in amazingly diverse with all of the pluses and minuses that go with diversity. I grew up in San Diego, California, and we crossed the border frequently. Dinner in Tijuana was normal, as was a weekend in Rosarito or Ensenada. We camped …
We are currently on the road, visiting family and friends in Mexico. First stop: Ajijic. Ajijic is a small town in Jalisco, on the shore of Lake Chapala–Mexico’s largest lake. Lake Chapala has a huge expat community (one estimate says over 40,000!) mostly from Canada and the US. Many are snowbirds who live in the area …
