Visiting the La Casa Azul (Blue House) of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City was something I was genuinely excited about — seeing the place where she lived, created, and kept going despite everything life threw at her. But honestly, the saddest part was how commercialized it...
Teotihuacán wasn't even the plan. We were heading to Mexico City, but the flight from Mérida into Felipe Ángeles airport (NLU) was so much cheaper than flying into the main Mexico City airport that we built a one-night stop near the pyramids around it. So this isn't...
I was standing in front of a 168-meter ball court in 40-degree heat, sweating through my dress, luggage stored in a locker that barely fit my backpack — and all I could think about was a DreamWorks cartoon from 2000 - The Road to El Dorado. The ball game scene. I'd...
Tulum is a small town. There's the playa, there's your hotel, there are a few murals if you go looking — and then there are the ruins. That's more or less the list. The Maya ruins of Tulum are the main reason most people make it to this part of the Yucatán Peninsula,...
Located between Tulum and Mérida along the Yucatán Peninsula, Valladolid is the kind of place that earns its spot on your itinerary — not just as a base for day trips, but as a destination worth slowing down for. This compact colonial town surprises most visitors with...
I'll be upfront with you: Tulum was a strange one. We arrived in late April — just past Easter, technically shoulder season — and the place felt oddly quiet. Half the hotels along the beach road were either under construction or looked like they'd been abandoned...
Playa del Carmen was my first look at Mexico, and it won me over immediately. My boyfriend and I flew into Cancun, but we had limited vacation days and a tight itinerary, so we skipped the city entirely and took the first ADO bus south. Two hours and 270 Mexican pesos...
There is something about Frida Kahlo that refuses to stay inside a museum. You encounter her on street murals in Mexico City, on hotel walls in Tbilisi, on the menus of cafes named after her in cities she never set foot in. More than 70 years after her death, the...