The Amateur Traveler talks to Ana Laura about her home city of Mexico City. We will talk about food, museums, architecture and history. We will puzzle about why the tourists stay in [...]

Among the things you don’t want to see when you are on vacation is the police showing up in very large numbers and dressing like this, but that is exactly what I [...]

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 [...]