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Ahhh! My buddy has gone back to Zihuatanejo, Mexico and I ain’t there! My other buddy is in Sayulita and I ain’t there! I am supposed to be there in the warm place where fond, exciting, sometimes fuzzy, visually stunning memories are made. Most of my photos are in storage from this trip but I [...]

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This is the former monastery now converted to the Cultural Museum of Oaxaca, full of interesting colonial and pre-Columbian art and artifacts. It is adjoined to the Santo Domingo Church (building commenced in 1572 by Dominican friars). Someone there informed me that the monastery was acquired by the military during revolutionary wars and also used [...]

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The other night, dia de los muertos night at Zocalo Restaurant I heard the familiar music from a memory, el Mariachis! The music and the attire conjure up the images of mariachis my friend and I hung out with in the wistful Oaxaca city zocalo(town square) 10 years ago, before the ‘reno’ of the square [...]

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We were strolling down a hot street in the Mexican port city of Mazatlan, tired of looking at churches, sightseeing French influences in architecture and yet-another-museum, the thirst was getting to us, it was 11am. Thoughts of holiday beers in the morning simultaneously pop into our minds, we looked at each other knowingly. Dean hears [...]

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My friends G+G and I got a cheap white rental car(with insurance) in Playa Del Carmen and escaped heading west to Merida. We eat our breakfast pizza pie? from the local bakery pondering on the roots of this culinary wonder, well I guess there are a lot of Italian tourist that go to Playa. We [...]

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