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Mexico Road Trips | Exploring Our Adopted Home by Car
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items From winding mountain highways to small towns and big cities, these are the places we’ve explored as a family while living in Mexico, and what we learned along the way.
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Guadalajara & Tequila Region
Querétaro & the Colonial Highlands
San Miguel de Allende & Central Mexico
Guanajuato & The Final Stretch Home
Guadalajara & Tequila Region
Our first long drive out of Puerto Vallarta, exploring one of Mexico’s most vibrant cultural hubs and the agave fields that surround it.
Our road trip to Guadalajara started with a night we’ll be talking about for years. We took the boys to lucha libre and it was everything people say it is, but so much more up close than I expected. The wrestlers come right into the crowd. At one poi...
Lucha Libre in Guadalajara — Up Close, Loud, and Unforgettable
If you only have one day in Guadalajara, start in the Zócalo. The entire city center is connected by plazas and wide walkways, and everywhere you look there is history, color, and life. The colonial buildings are striking and there is so much to take... https://www.instagram.com/p/CfA4YF_Oh_l/?img_index=7
Exploring Guadalajara Centro and Mercado San Juan de Dios
Querétaro & the Colonial Highlands
Exploring one of Mexico’s most historic and beautiful highland cities, where centuries of architecture and art fill every block.
Querétaro surprised us right away. Sitting high in the Colonial Highlands, it has that crisp evening air you don’t expect after coming from the coast. I instantly wished I had packed a sweater. After dinner, we wandered through the old streets and wa...https://www.instagram.com/p/CfDY44Kt4bW/?img_index=4
Historic Querétaro, The Heart of the Colonial Highlands
We woke up this morning absolutely freezing, 18°C and windy feels like winter when you’re used to tropical humidity. Everyone’s lips were chapped and our fingers were cold, but we found a little stall selling ponchos for about five dollars each, whic...
Bernal, Ponchos, and the Chill of the Highlands
San Miguel de Allende & Central Mexico
Two nights in one of Mexico’s most beloved colonial cities, full of color, history, and steep cobblestone hills that feel straight out of a storybook.
This morning started off quietly with breakfast and some pigeon watching before our short drive to San Miguel de Allende, thankfully only about an hour from Querétaro. After so much walking and driving this week, that felt like a gift. Our hotel here...
San Miguel de Allende: Ghosts, Cobblestones, and the Famous Pink Church
We started the morning with breakfast at the hotel before making the steep walk down into San Miguel’s centro. More wandering through narrow streets, stopping to admire old churches, historic buildings, and, as always, plenty of pigeons. We found chu...
San Miguel Mornings, Mirador Views, and Evening Magic
On our way out of San Miguel, we stopped in Atotonilco, a quiet little town just seven miles east, home to the Sanctuary of Atotonilco, often called Mexico’s Sistine Chapel. From the outside, it looks simple, but inside the ceiling is covered with pa...
Atotonilco — Mexico’s Sistine Chapel and Street-Side Breakfasts
Guanajuato & The Final Stretch Home
A colorful, historic mountain city that quickly stole our hearts and ended up becoming the highlight of the entire road trip.
We originally planned to just make a quick stop in Guanajuato before heading back to Guadalajara, but the moment we arrived, that plan went out the window. From a distance, the city looks like a rainbow tucked between the Sierra Madre mountains, and ...https://www.instagram.com/p/CfNxDeXOdTG/?img_index=3
Guanajuato — The City Too Beautiful to Leave
Our last day of the trip started with breakfast from one of the many panaderías in town before riding the funicular up to El Pípila Monument for panoramic views of Guanajuato’s rainbow skyline. It’s worth going early before the crowds arrive. We stop...
Guanajuato — Legends, Mummies, and a Perfect Finale
Guanajuato was the perfect way to end our first Mexico road trip. Within our first hour there, local police stopped to give us an emergency phone number and even confirmed we’d reach someone who could speak English if needed. The next morning, we met...
The Drive Home — Kindness, Chaos, and Closing the Loop