All posts related to North America, including Mexico, the United States and Canada.
The Riviera Maya on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula is world-renowned for its warm, turquoise waters and paradisiac beaches and Mexico’s most popular tourist destination. For the past couple of years, however, a new menace threatens to ruin
Planning a trip around Yucatán or the Riviera Maya in Mexico? You might want to brush up on how to say basic phrases in Maya. Maya is a family of Mesoamerican languages spoken by over 6 million people in Southern
I wanted to share some of the colorful characters one can encounter while traveling. Not every travel experience has to be exotic; the point of doing travel writing is to get a feel for the spirit of the place and
I looked out the plane window and down at the landscape over which we were flying. Range after range of snow-capped mountains spread out as far as the eye could see. It looked so surreal, almost like looking at a
Marcey and I walked down the wash that wound its way through the small canyon. Although it was barely the begging of April, the midday sun was blistering hot. Such is life in Arizona, a place of yellow-brown dryness. You
I lay in my sleeping bag, unable to sleep. Outside the tent, the heavy winds that had complicated our overnight fishing trip had died down. Maybe they’d be back. I could feel a thin layer of sand and fine dust
CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THEM There's no doubt that one of the most impressive things you'll get to see in the US (or, anywhere else, for that matter)
In the deserts north of Phoenix, Arizona lies the small town of Cave Creek. Its landscape is dominated by the great Sonoran Desert. This is where the Saguaro, nature’s equivalent of a high-rise cactus, rise up from the chaparral
Sharks have always been my absolute favorite animal. There's just something about them that’s always inspired a sense of childish wonder in me. Maybe it's the beauty and the graceful swagger with which they dart through the waters. Maybe it's