Driving from Guadalajara to Oaxaca
My guide book tells me that it's exactly 1,000 kilometers from Guadalajara to Oaxaca. That's about 660 miles. I know of people who say they've driven the distance in one day and I have to concede that ...
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The Reader's Companion to Mexico edited by Alan Ryan
This is an odd volume. I originally bought it because it advertises itself as "a gathering of some of the best travel writing ever" about Mexico. However, you quickly find as you dip into it that not all the articles are about travel. Also, very few of them have been written in recent times. Indeed, a couple were written about 100 years ago. However, that's not a criticism.
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Did You Know? A fungus from Mexico and the Irish potato famine
There wouldn't be many Irish people in the United States if it wasn't for a Mexican fungus.
The census of 1841 in Ireland recorded a population of about 8 million. This figure was a staggering 300% m...
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