Mexico City     For the second straight year, we were stranded by Mexican domestic airlines.   This year it was Aeromexico, who canceled our early morning flight out of Puerto Escondido, so that we would miss our United connection to Houston and then home.  Whether travel for work or a hybrid worcation or whatever, you have …

           Puerto Escondido       Almost a year ago, we ended the year watching the whales off the coast of Baja California on a boat out of Cabo San Lucas.  What a great Christmas present.  Now in Oaxaca at Puerto Escondido, how could we bring in the new year and top that?  How about leaving at dawn …

Puerto Escondido       Our family just spent over an hour watching a squirrel over the wall where we were staying.  We talked, read, whatever, but the squirrel was tireless, scrapping away at the husk of a coconut, determined to find whatever prize lay within.  Mi hija called it a National Geographic moment, and it was that …