Category Archives: Mexico

We eat a lot of Mexican food in California.  Whether just a snack of tortilla chips and salsa or our Christmas Eve meal of tamales this cuisine is an important part of our lives.  It was hard living without it.  We … Continue reading →

We spent our last month in Guanajuato, Mexico, up in the mountains north of Mexico City.  The city is built in the 1500’s within the ravines of a few connecting dry riverbeds.  We lived toward the top of a ridge … Continue reading →

In our travels this year we’ve been to three museums with mummies.  In Istanbul, there is a classic Egyptian mummy, King Tabnit, on display.  He’s displayed next to Alexander the Great’s sarcophagus.  In Arequipa, Peru, we saw a frozen mummy … Continue reading →