I’ve been to Zacatecas, but missed the museums. Fool! Next time!

When bicycling in Europe, my husband wanted me to sport a Canadian flag on my bike to avoid possible anti-American comments. I refused. I said, I can’t help it if I’m American, and I’m not going to pretend I’m […]

Great post! I laughed with familiarity. Just read you have a washing machine? I forgot that you had gone gentrified:-)
Didn’t quite follow this sentence: ‘First, the color of your house may be democratically […]

“pink-tan-gray sandstone”? I didn’t realize. I love anything pink & sandstone. Think I’ll spring for the week-long pass. And the same hotel you chose!

Hear, hear! (Or should I say, ‘there, there!’) I used to be one of those stalwarts who believed you had to “face” your “issues” (gag!) but I ran away from the East Coast to Vancouver, BC after I graduated and I […]

I bring my favorite teabags down, because the selection here is more limited. Plus, all the extra plastic bags I’ve tried not to collect, but still do, to use to line the trash here. Better than throwing them away!

We discovered Vallodolid last year and loved it– the local cenote and the nearby convent and Ek Balam were wonderful features.

The Mexican approach to death seems so healthy. I know grief is part of the package in Mexico too, but it is not the only experience, as it tends to be in European cultures.

Thanks for a great list! And I haven’t read any of them!

We spent a month around Trabzon and its environs in the year 2000, and trekked near Ayder! … not the part of Turkey where most Westerners go. On a subsequent trip To Turkey I learnt that Trabzon had become a […]

You could argue that the British Museum is a world museum that protected antiquities which otherwise might have been plundered or left to decay. Yes, the British Museum could be called a thief, but we’ve all […]

I’m married and usually, but not always, travel with my husband. One downside is that I think other people tend to view couples as self-sufficient and less approachable. Speaking from inside the couple, I have to […]

And on the same theme, the way manufacturers have downsized sizes to spread the illusion that shoppers are thinner than they are, is stupid and insulting.

Hilarious! yet practical. I’ll try to remember all this in Asia, esp when staring (or not staring) at all those squatting bodies in front of me.

The thing about food is, we can’t just stop eating food like we can cigarettes! Except, maybe in a few instances, as I have managed to do. Not too many, though. Rules don’t agree with me! Hey, thanks for being my first respondent.