This blog is dedicated to Aunt Es, who always had a great question about our travels and always listened to our answers. We've hoisted a glass of red wine for you, Aunt Es. You know how there are all these features online and in travel sections of what were formerly newspapers titled "48 hours in …
Author: Susan
Susan AKA Sue, AKA Aunt Susie: I am a former journalist and teacher at semi-loose ends who is still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I am restless and determined. I love a challenge.
Things I like: photography, yoga, mountains, a great book, exploring, music.
Things I am not so keen on: standing still, gray days, coconut
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from CDMX
Last year we were in Rome for St. Patrick's Day. Wow, does that seem a looooong time ago. Our lives are packed with new experiences. Anyway, we tried to go to an Irish pub, but it had lost power and was closed, so we ended up at a wine bar. No complaints, but no green …
Daylight Savings Us from the 6 a.m. Gym
When you woke up this morning you had somehow lost an hour of your life. When we woke up this morning, we had not. Time is relative. I think it was Einstein who proved this, although I might be confused. Last year, the Mexican legislature decided to do away with Daylight Savings Time. It is …
The worst laid plans
You may know that we walk. A LOT. And when we walk, we pass restaurants and other places and we say, "We should go there," and then when we want a place to go, we have forgotten every one of them. No worries, we figure, we will just walk the way we walk and a …
Back in the USA (for a few days)
OMG! If I haven't already bragged about my very sweet husband, here goes: He surprised me with tickets to Houston to see my family and Bruuuuuuuuce!(for those of you who do not know, that is Bruce Springsteen). What a fab Valentine's present from someone who doesn't do Hallmark holidays. We left CDMX on Saturday morning. …
Routine, what’s that?
Four switches among many on the walls in our apartment: What do they operate? First off: We are loving CDMX. It's vibrant. The food everywhere (on the street, in the fondas -- or little stall restaurants -- in the storefront spots, and even at the mercado) is excellent, and the people are nice. We decided …
Ciao Santiago, Hola CDMX
Plus: A Visit to the Dentist in STGO and From Summer to Winter in 8 Hours While we never say we regret being in a place (mostly because we don't), we were ready to leave Santiago. We've also mentioned why: It's a little rundown and a little too quiet for us, although the people are …
Dead Person Bingo sin Steven
Plus: Decent pizza and an intro to the Atacama Desert Wednesday I signed up for one of the cultural activities my Spanish school offers because it was tour of Cementario General. My classmates, Rania and James also signed up, but warned me that the tour guide was a bit, how shall we say? ... scattered. …
Writing in Chilean Time
Oops, it's taken a bit longer to write this blog than we usually like to take, but I started Spanish school and Steven hit the ground running at work after a quiet holiday week. We were very exciting people on New Year's Eve: we binge-watched "Bad Sisters" and had a glass of wine at midnight. …
A Jewish Feliz Navidad
In Santiago, everything closes early on Christmas Eve and stays closed on Christmas, so naturally we decided to go somewhere else where everything was closed: wine country, or at least one of the many wine-making areas of Chile. We chose Colchagua Valley, mostly because there is a hotel there, Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, that had …
Doing It On The Road 