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As a foreigner rapidly zooming by the mid-life years I’ve had a handful of surgeries here in town and here are the three main differences I’ve noticed between Mexico and US healthcare. (Sorry, Canadians, but I’ve managed to bop around visiting your shrines to k.d. …
So I’ve always been one of those responsible lads that did estate planning. Even as a high school teen working part time at the Sears, I filled in all the forms so that if I died some life insurance money would float to the surface …
With March being Women’s History Month and while American quarters are released year after year revealing a wide range of American gals with varied accomplishments, I pondered if Mexican pesos may soon do the same? If so, who should be featured? Of course we’ve long …
If asked about the success of Mexican actresses in Hollywood I’d have assumed it was a straight line between the early Hollywood successes of Lupe Velez (a comedian) alongside Dolores Del Rio (a great beauty of the 1930’s) to the 1990’s Salma Hayek (who filmed …
As anyone who has been in the US in the last few years you know every highway exit features a Dollar Store and a second-hand retail outlet for Goodwill, or similar organization. As more vacant malls fall in on themselves, thrifting has become big business …
Spend Christmas morning in a rare opportunity exploring a local village’s holiday celebrations of dancing and music plus: The Silver Route where it remains much like in the 1600s A cloistered monastery enjoying the art, views and vibes. Feel free to bring chocolate covered Oreos …
Spend holidays enjoying San Miguel de Allende’s unique history, culture and Christmas traditions. Tours are led by Joseph Toone, author of the best-selling Christmas book in the series San Miguel de Allende’s Secrets and our top ranked private tour guide. Toone is also the creator of the San …
Join the longest-running and best-rated Day of the Dead tours led by the lad that, literally, wrote the best-selling book on Day of the Dead in San Miguel de Allende. Explore San Miguel de Allende’s oldest and still active cemetery to enjoy: Why San Miguel …
Feather-based art seen in town today are the traditional indigenous dancers with decorated headdresses, staffs, lances, fans, bracelets and sandals. All these feathers are a subset of an art form that reached its zenith just prior to the Spanish Conquest to about a century afterwards. …
Gift giving is an art and as with any art it is a mixture of sensitivity and perspective. As a foreigner living in Mexico these are some tricks of the trade I’ve learned that have served me well and will help your gifting fit in …