Along with our longer day trips, we traveled to many different areas in the city as well. Transportation is the life blood of any city, the key ingredient to it all functioning, and this is truer yet in a megacity like Mexico. Driving here appears to be an act of faith, enduring frustration punctuated by… Read More Under the Fifth Sun
There is so much to see beyond the boundaries of Mexico City that deciding which direction to head is almost paralyzing. Fortunately, Mexico’s Secretariat of Tourism has come to the rescue with its Pueblos Magicos program, an on-and-off-again effort meant to highlight the many places worthy of a visit around the country. At the risk… Read More Pueblos Magicos
It had been over a decade since my first and only trip to Mexico City and I was long overdue for a sequel. True to the Hollywood formula, all the successful elements of that trip – locale, food, people, sights – were dutifully recreated. Like any sequel, new elements like my wife and a proper… Read More CDMX: The Sequel
We got to Lunenburg midday, just in time for Hannah to take a quick catnap in the rental car. My nap would come later, an unavoidable byproduct of a red-eye flight crossing nearly the entirety of Canada. In the meantime I busied myself walking the steep streets of the small town, bracketed by brightly painted… Read More Haligonian Holiday
On a nice summer weekend, Harpers Ferry is overrun with tourists, visitors overrunning the town’s few steep streets, poking into the various historic sites related to John Brown’s failed slave uprising and his subsequent execution, and forming long lines for the few restaurants in town. It is no doubt a brisk trade for business owners… Read More One Good Dose of Thunder
Daybreak Meyersdale. The old adage – early to bed and early to rise – rang true, but just to be on the safe side we indulged in bottomless coffee refills at the town diner, putting down a greasy spoon breakfast in between sips. This seemed to be the equilibrium point, we were both feeling good… Read More Terrapin Station
The GAP Trail out of Pittsburgh meanders along the banks of the Monongahela River for the first few miles, sandwiched between the water and a series of surface roads and highways choked with the constant drone of cars. Pittsburgh and its suburbs reveal themselves between the bridges and highways, a hodgepodge of active and abandoned… Read More Monongahela, Allegheny, Youghiogheny
Last year, deep in the years-long pause brought on by the pandemic, riding my bike was my sanity measure. I did it a lot, it made for a guilt-free outing from the house around Vancouver but eventually each bike route became repetitive after several dozens of rides. Looking for something different, and looking ahead to… Read More Among the Yinzers
Last day in Mexico! And what else would one do than wait out the heat in an internet cafe? To be fair to myself, I made a good go of the morning, getting out early to check out the final set of ruins on my list for the trip: Xochicalco. The guidebook says simply to… Read More Time Stands Still
My last morning in Puebla was a flurry of visiting museums, walking around the colonial centre of the town. It struck me that there is a lot to see in the city; I’d nearly completely neglected the city’s attractions in favour of the surrounding ruins. In truth, the museums are good but not great here.… Read More Off the Shoulder of Orion
Zak Abroad 