Journey Jotters

Bitten by the travel bug

While in Mexico last spring, there were a few foods that we wished to try to round out our cultural experience. Mexican cuisine is well known for its various meat dishes, so it was a bit of a challenge to find vegetarian food. But we managed. Here are some Mexican dishes we tried and enjoyed …

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We spent a full day in Coyoacan, the first half at the Frida Kahlo Museum and the second half just exploring Coyoacan. A Nahuatl word meaning “place of coyotes”, Coyoacan was the first Spanish settlement of Hernan Cortes. He is believed to have attacked and decimated the mighty Aztecs from this settlement and made Coyoacan …

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