Blog posts about Mexico.

About 80 miles outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Grutas Tolantongo hot springs. It’s a beautiful spot surrounded by mountains where pools have been built fed by the natural warm mineral water.

While I think that sending physical mail is something that is becoming less and less common in favor of electronic communication, I do have a handful of people in my life who I send and receive mail from, usually greeting cards or postcards.

Palacio de Bellas Artes is a stunning theater which was built about 100 years ago. Construction started in 1910 but was disrupted by the country’s revolution and so it wasn’t completed until 1930.

Transportation within Mexico City is what you’d expect from any modern city. Taxis, buses, trains, rideshare all are present and work as you’d expect.

About an hour outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Xochimilco (sow·chee·meel·kow), home to a series of floating islands. Though, they aren’t actually floating islands, they only appear that way. The islands are connected to the earth.

Our apartment in Mexico City is tastefully furnished with comfortable seating, gentle lighting, and numerous bookshelves containing a wide variety of books in Spanish and in English.

When planning our time in Mexico City a year ago I had a church mapped out, not too far from our apartment, that is the same denomination as we attend in the U.S. (Lutheran).

We’ve been in Mexico City for one week now and we have managed to check off a number of firsts…

I expect that will be the initial reaction when family and friends back home learn that one of the first things I did upon leaving the U.S. was to book an appointment to go to the dentist.