Archive for the ‘Guanajuato’ Category
Feb. 9, 2005 — We’re leaving Guanajuato this morning, going on to Pozos, an old mining town not far away that is beginning to be restored.
We’ve been here a month, a full and complex month. I won’t miss the graffiti everywhere, the street dogs ( though not as bad here as in some other Mexican [...]
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January 2005 — Last night when I went to bed around 11, I was still pretty awake, so I started paying deliberate attention to the sounds. Someone must have been walking along our street about two blocks down the hill, because the barking from rooftop dogs in that direction reached a frenzy.
A motorcycle roared up [...]
January 2005 — Guanajuato is a very interesting small city in the Bajio, central highlands of Mexico. At some 6700 feet in altitude, it’s got a nice climate all year. It’s certainly pleasant now, mid-January. We sleep under a quilt at night, use our motorhome heater for a little while in the morning, and wear [...]
Guanajuato is quite an easy place to get to. It’s near the geographic center of Mexico, however that was calculated. About 10 miles west of [...]
When we spent a month in Guanjuato, I was more interested in finding out about its real estate than about that of other Mexican cities, [...]
Guanajuato is a very photogenic town, so I may have overloaded this page with photos. So while they load I’ll tell you a story about [...]
The young man worked at a coffee shop we went to, near the Tunel Santa Fe, and the young woman worked at a bakery on Dos Rios. I felt that the two of them had the spirit of their beautiful, vibrant [...]
Guanajuato was for centuries one of the richest cities in Mexico, as countless wealth poured out of its silver mines. This was before Mexico had [...]
Guanajuato hotels all have one thing in common… they are completely full in October, during the city’s annual Cervantino festival. Do book months in advance [...]
