Archive for the ‘BOOKS’ Category

Mexican food offers an amazing variety of regional specialties, delicious sweets, and bizarre items you may want to try. Even if you are quite familiar with most of the items on a Mexican restaurant menu back home, there will be a lot of mysteries once you arrive in Mexico. That’s where The Hungry Traveler: Mexico, […]

For my taste,  Head for Mexico: The Renegade Guide is a must-read for anyone interested in Mexico. It’s right up there, just after the classic People’s Guide to Mexico. That subtitle, The Renegade Guide, which gives you more an idea of Don Adam’s approach than a description of the contents. Basically it covers in detail […]

The Mexican maps published by Guia Roji are the best ones we have found, and other travelers have said the same. They are not completely error-free, though, as we noticed a few times. We have gone searching for roads they have marked in yellow, only to find that they don’t exist! This 8.5 x 11 […]

I almost didn’t buy Frommer’s Mexico 2009 , by David Baird and Lynne Bairstow, as I already had Lonely Planet Mexico and the Rough Guide to Mexico. But then I remembered that  when we roamed Mexico in our RV with just the Lonely Planet, I had wished I’d had more Mexican guidebooks. I’ve been very […]

Information for Travel, Retirement, Investment, and Affordable Living is the subtitle of this updated classic by John Howells and Don Merwin, and that  sums up its contents well. General information is followed by comments on different places. If you want to read one book on this topic, Choose Mexico is an upbeat overview. I have […]

Ken Luboff has been writing about how to live in Mexico for years now. He’s easy to read, clear, and neither too rosy nor too pessimistic. Living Abroad in Mexico is a good general overview, much like his earlier Adapter Kit in Mexico. You might want to get it if you are considering whether Mexico […]