For today’s Wednesday Who, we will be taking a look at Heriberto Jara Corona, whose name was adopted for Veracruz International Airport (VER) in Mexico. This particular airport has a bit more meaning to me than other Wednesday Who posts. I used to fly to Veracruz to visit a friend, who coincidentally hails from Orizaba, […]
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First Trip of 2023: Good Eats in Mexico City
There were indeed good eats in Mexico City for my first vacation of 2023, but I actually started off with a project in Puebla, a city about 2.5 hours by bus from the Mexican capital. Undoubtedly, Puebla is a food center in its own right, being one of the homes of mole (link in Spanish), as […]
Trip Report: Playa Balandra, Calafia Airlines, La Paz, Mexico (LAP) to Tijuana, Mexico (TIJ) & CBX Border Crossing to San Diego
Playa Balandra (Balandra Beach), Baja California Sur, MexicoAfter a few days of vacation during which I had been eating like a whale, and becoming a human chicharrón under the La Paz sun, I had to return to the US. This time, I opted for Baja’s regional carrier Calafia Airlines, since they had a convenient flight […]
Viva Aerobus Increases Destinations from Mérida, Mexico
First of all, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, and keep warm! Earlier this month, Mexican Low-Cost Carrier Viva Aerobus (airline code VB) added two new nonstop destinations from Mérida, the capital of Yucatán state, and the largest city in the Yucatán peninsula. (link in Spanish) Mérida, located in one of the hotter parts in the country, […]
2021 Pandemic Travel, from Mexico to Mexico (with a Brief Border Crossing Guide)
During a stint in Chicago a few years ago, I found that Frontier Airlines offered some really good deals to/from Harlingen, Texas (airport code HRL), close to the Mexican border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros. Then, from one of those cities, it’s a cheap flight to where ever else in Mexico. Yes, why not escape those […]
