by Erin May | Jun 6, 2014 | Area Attractions, Mexico Travel, Uncategorized
I had the honor of being invited to an Isthmus wedding last year. The groom, Asa Buchanan, was a young English teacher from London and the bride Karina Nuricumbo´s family was from Juchitán. It was an enormous, colorful affair held in an event hall right near the...
by Erin May | May 26, 2014 | Area Attractions, Beaches of the Oaxaca Coast
Playa Arrocito is located just before Tangolunda Bay in the resort town of Huatulco. Only 300 foot long, this great little playa was named as a result of the sand that looks like small grains of rice. Its name comes from that feature. The sand is very different from...
by Erin May | May 24, 2014 | Area Attractions, Mexico Travel, My Life in Mexico
By Jan and Marcia Chaiken – writers of the Huatulco Eye Fábrica Mexicana, an exhibition presented in the Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Mexico City, made clear that Mexico must be placed high on the list of countries creating the most imaginative and environmentally...
by Erin May | May 20, 2014 | Area Attractions, Mexico Travel, My Life in Mexico
Music has, for centuries, been an integral part of the life and culture of the indigenous people of Mexico. Before the arrival of the first Spanish Conquistadors they used conch shell horns, reed and wooden flutes and various drums and other percussive instruments to...
by Erin May | Apr 17, 2014 | Area Attractions, Mexico Travel, My Life in Mexico
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anaïs Nin One Saturday morning in Mexico City I had a dental emergency and was forced to call a dentist who offered 24 hour service. It was 7 AM and she agreed to meet me by 9. The...
