There was something about the airy clifftop setting of Amankila that made me feel like flying while I was there. Perhaps it was the way the three-tier pools flowed into each other [...]

After breakfast and a (hot) shower I went over to the tour place and caught the shuttle to Monte Alban. In the van on the way over I struck up a conversation [...]

I am not sure if they have hot showers at this hostel (Hostel del Mercado) which is something I had read in reviews before coming. I certainly did not have one but [...]

I awoke with just two more things that I wanted to see in Mexico City before I headed to Oaxaca: the murals at the National Palace and the National History Museum in [...]

I ate breakfast again at the hostel and then caught the metro to the central bus station in the north of Mexico City to find a bus for Teotihuacan which is 30 [...]

A little mixup at the hostel. i think I may have claimed someone else’s bed, or at least someone else was in it when I went to bed. But my sheets, towel [...]

Packing for a trip is always a little stressful but it adds an extra level of stress when you go to get something from your garage and find that the garage door [...]

photo by Jorge Luis Santiago The Amateur Traveler talks to Sarah Menkedick about her adopted home town of Oaxaca Mexico. Sarah talks about her love for this sunny tropical city with both [...]

When President Obama suggested it was wrong for companies that have gotten bail out money to use it on junkets to Las Vegas, he apparently stepped on the toes of the sin [...]

This is the first episode of a new video show from the Amateur Traveler that focuses on gear to take with you on your travels. This first episode looks at small tripods [...]