Category: Mexico

We visited Cozumel for the first time in February and had a great stay. We enjoyed it so much, in fact, that weather in Dallas canceled our flights home and we decided to stay for 5 extra days haha! Here’s a breakdown of our experience and some of my favorite spots.

Dates:

Feb 10-19, 2021

Itinerary:

Reno -> Dallas -> Cozumel … there is also the option to fly into Cancun and take a ferry but flying directly into Cozumel could not have been easier!

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Anyone who know T and me, knows we love to eat and drink! Our list of places to try has long outgrown the number of meals we can consume. Mexico City has so many incredible options from my favorite, street-side mango, to extravagant tasting menus, and everything in between.  We eat everything and often joke about what a blessing that is because, quite honestly, we don’t always know exactly what we ordered (you can thank our bad Spanish and the uncommon-to-us cuts of meat for that!)

First a few thing and then my list:

Delicious food stands are everywhere and it’s hard to call out one as the best.

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T and I just got back from a long weekend in Mazunte, Oaxaca. I imagine you’re going “where?!”

Mazunte is a small beach town on the Pacific coast in the Mexican state of Oaxaca with a population of about 700 poeple. We happened to be the there the first week of June, which is the off season (well like the off-off season) and the population had swelled to maybe 750.

When we signed into our hotels log-book,

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I am no Mexico City expert (yet!) but I do have some recommendations. Here are my quick and dirty tips for visiting CDMX:

Airport:

  • Both cabs or Ubers are fine, but I suggest Uber, especially if you Airbnb, much easier to enter the address
  • If you do take a cab, buy a ticket from one of the taxi stands and then go to the taxi line

Where to stay:

  • We have been happy with Airbnb,

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