my nice little life

My Arrival in Cuernavaca Mexico for Immersion School Sherry blogs: The bus ride from the airport took two hours. Once outside of Mexico City, we started climbing toward Cuernavaca. I had forgotten that the area actually had quite a few trees (mostly pines) and didn’t look quite as dry as Oaxaca, Guanajuato or San Miguel. [...]

This is Bill writing now.  It may get a bit confusing for a while, since there will be two of us writing, but we have fairly different perspectives and writing styles.  We’ll try to identify ourselves. I leave for Mexico at 7 tomorrow morning.  I’ve never been to Mexico, so it’s exciting.  I’m not sure [...]

Sherry is doing the Blogging this time:     I made it! The trip was very easy. Good weather, no large crowds, planes running on time. No problems. The USAir plane to Mexico City wasn’t full — a sign of our economic times, I suppose.       After immigration and customs, I tried to find AeroMexico, but didn’t [...]

I spent 3 weeks in Oaxaca attending the Español Interactivo.  Here is my experience. Location & building: This school is located within a couple of blocks of the traditional Mexican city center, the zócolo.  To enter, you pass through the outside wall via two tall, beautiful wooden doors.  The doors lead to the office and [...]

                                             The writing is on the wall – we’ll go next year.   As you may remember, we had three choices for our Mexico trip.   A  1500 mile bus ride, two months in Queretaro studying Spanish, or a combination of the two, with studying for a much shorter period of time (and in more than [...]

Well, we’ve decided.  We’re going to spend two winter months in Querétaro, Mexico taking Spanish courses.   We really really really want to do the 1500 mile bus tour, but frankly I need the Spanish instruction.  AND we figure that the trip will be much more enjoyable if I get a little further along with Spanish.  [...]

  We have a dilemma to solve… but it’s a good dilemma.    We’re going back to Mexico sometime this winter (we aren’t sure yet exactly when).  We’re looking for a place where we can go (regularly) to get away from Winter (and maybe even Summer eventually). Mexico seems to fit the bill.  It’s close, so [...]

Well, we’re back home (earlier than we expected, due to personal considerations).   We’re tan and rested.  We didn’t gain any weight.  And we had a good time.  We spent more money than we had planned.  In fact, we spent more than we had budgeted for the entire month, even though we were only away for [...]

Until this trip, our travels in Mexico have been inexpensive.  Not so Cabo.  We’ve been told that Cabo is one of the most expensive places to vacation in Mexico.  Not much different from home.  Eating out was more expensive than home.  The prices we show here for breakfast and lunch were about the cheapest we [...]

Sherry and I love Mexico.  We’ve talked about the why many, many times, without, I’m afraid, a really satisfactory answer.  God knows Mexico has its problems.  Corruption, pollution, crime, poverty and more.   Of course if we’re listing problems with countries we love, the U.S. has a very long list of problems as well – [...]