Three Travel and Mexico Blogs I Like

Here are a couple of other Mexican blogs for your enjoyment, while I'm off in the northlands (though I plan to keep blogging about Mexican-related topics) plus another very exciting travel blog:

billiemercer.blogspot.com/
Billie contributes comments on my blog here and has a delightful personal blog herself. I know she also has a bunch of photos up at flickr, a fascinating website where Kelly has a lot of photos up too. That's how we met online. We still haven't met in person, but I'm sure we will as she is in San Miguel de Allende, about an hour's drive from here. Billie, would you post a link to your flickr pages in a comment response to this? Thanks in advance.

http://ranchocalypso.com/travellog/
John and Anita Wilson lived near us in Ashland, Oregon, years ago, and have a home just over the mountains from ours in Colorado. Now they are buying a house in Xico, a town outside of of Xalapa, Veracruz. Xico and Bernal were the two towns that stood out for us on our trip two years ago. Parallel lives! Enjoy some of the best mole I've ever eaten, John and Anita... it was from a little husband-and-wife shop in Xico, on the right side of the street as you go towards the main (only?) church in Xico. Of course, that may describe a dozen shops. Their peanut mole was heavenly.

Anita got her FM-3 in a few hours in Denver... [jealous moans]. They are in Xico now. I gasped when I read John's reactions to the cops who hit him up for mordida on their way down. They got through aduana (customs) at the border very easily, which kinda fits in with what we have heard from other Americans who have FM-3s. We are not going to be bringing a gazillion things down when we come back, so we will just spread our stuff around our little motorhome Cando and if we have to pay a little duty, that will be easier than creating a menaje de casa in 5 perfect copies in Spanish listing in detail everything we are bringing in. It would be different if we were going the moving van and tons of furniture route.

http://www.imagesoftheworld.com/medtrip/medhome.html
Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker are two of the most adventurous people we know. We've seen them in our town of Crestone, Colorado, a few times when they have come to see some good friends of ours who also live there. Chinle sent me this link this morning, and I've just been reading about the beginning of their bicycling in Egypt. They have written books about previous trips, including a round-the-world bike trip. I am far from being an adventurous soul like them, but I greatly enjoy reading about how welcoming the Egyptians are, why they are there, and much more. If you read their blog, take a little more time and look around their whole site. They are superb photographers and earn their living in part from presentations they do to students in schools.