Eat. Travel. Do cool stuff.
After quite a few months in Central America the move over to Europe brings some significant cultural differences. Before we just into specific read-outs on our destination, let’s just examine a few of the changes.
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For many years, I’ve wanted to see the monarch migration. While we’ve been in Mexico in almost the right time, or almost the right place it’s never all worked out before. Since we finally had all of the pieces, I was excited to plan this trip.
Our choices were to go on a tour or rent a car and do it ourselves. Still scarred from a less-than-stellar van tour in Oaxaca, we immediately threw that option out. Finding a rental car was no problem—there are a million options in Mexico City. After previous experience, we were also familiar with the document we needed to request from our credit card to show that we already had the insurance coverage they might push us to pay for.
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When I was growing up, I had only bad impressions of Mexico City—too big and too polluted. It’s funny that this city has unexpectedly been one of our favorites—already on repeat.
The city is overwhelmingly enormous, but if you break it down and just focus on the neighborhood you are in it quite manageable. We really only know the smallest, most privileged part of the city—Condesa and Roma Norte. While we explore far beyond these areas, the layers of the city are so thick that I won’t say that we properly know them.
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Making this list is pretty tough. There were so many amazing places to eat in Oaxaca, but here’s my attempt:
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Our Oaxaca portion of our trip was both great and frustrating—in ways we never would have expected beforehand. It made for a super jam-packed month dealing with both these highs and lows.
Let’s start with the frustrating:
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Well, by now you’ve realized that we aren’t still in Guatemala, despite what the blog says. In a surprising and fortunate twist, I’ve managed to accidentally get two remote jobs.
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This is a guest post by Mr. Snacks.
Yes, I climbed an active volcano (without turning into a charcoal briquette).
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Guatemala stands out for me with their fantastic desserts. We stayed super close to Dona Maria Gordillo which is one of the iconic dulcerias in Antigua. The recipes originated from a nun who lived in a nearby convent and sold sweet to raise money for the church and other things the nuns needed. Her recipes have lived on for almost 150 years through this store.
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Lake Atitlan is an amazing scene of beauty. Some 84,000 years ago, a volcano erupted and the crater it left behind is now a 1,100 foot deep lake with steep volcanos and small towns scattered around the shores. Because there is no road around the lake, each town is connected mostly only by boat (lancha). This also uniquely means that there are multiple different languages spoken in these towns—3 Mayan languages, and most of the younger generation speaks Spanish as a common language to interact with tourists.
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