México

Jan 2021 16

Tales From the Border: Andreita’s Lullaby

2021 Articles, Tales of Diversity

by Mark Redwine

The Space-X spaceport is about twenty minutes from our home. We drove out there today to see the latest prototype of the starship that will take humans to Mars. Her name is SN-9. She could fly next week. They have been test firing her engines and doing pressure tests on her for several days. Many of her predecessors did not survive the tests leading up to a launch. One reason is that some of the tests were designed to find out how much pressure the ship could handle.

Feb 2020 8

Tales From the Border: The Wedge

2020 Articles, Tales of Diversity

by Mark Redwine

In the summer of my youth, my kid brother, Allen, and I would hitchhike to Newport Beach from our home in Orange, California. We hung out with our friends at the south side of the pier long before the lifeguard station was built, 15th Street before the showers were there; and 17th Street near the lifeguard tower.

Jan 2019 5

Borders

2019 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

Borders: lines, trucks, vendors, mud, cooking fires, stray dogs, and pieces of tortillas or rolls in the muddy road, men lounging against trucks, women either stirring pots over fires in hubcaps or slapping tortilla dough, children staring out through dirty truck windows, pigs squealing through the slats of wood of one trailer, cows lowing from another, and uniformed guards holding rifles as they walk between the vehicles.

Nov 2018 10

The Bridge

2018 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

Bridges make crossing rivers, ravines, mountains, and crowded areas possible. We hope the bridge will last until we’re over it, but we’ve all seen pictures where it didn’t and dumped some vehicles down, down, down.

Mar 2017 25

New Shoes

2017 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

Ted was never one to spend a lot of money on his clothes. He had a pair of sandals that he had purchased from a bin at Safeway before we left on our worldwide trip. The soles had once had ridges which had worn off years before. They now were flat and slick.

Dec 2016 31

The Night in the Airport

2016 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

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We visited Peru, walked Macho Pichu and the streets of Cusco and Lima, and fought dysentery. We had been traveling for ten years, some time in motorhomes, some time in trains, cars, and planes. Now we were tired and depleted. We flew from Lima to Bogota, on our way to Mexico, where we were to live for the next six years.

Feb 2016 20

I Broke my Leg in the Jungle

2016 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

“I broke my leg,” my husband, Ted said as he crawled up the step in the motor home.
“Oh no! How do you know?” I said.
“I heard it snap as I landed on it. I had just stepped into the jungle when my foot slipped out,” he replied.

Aug 2014 9

The Trapped Kitten: A Travel Story

2014 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

“Honey, come quick. I think there are kittens trapped under the shower,” my husband called out to me while standing outside the motor home, dressed in a towel around his waist and his new rubber shower clogs.

Dec 2013 28

New Year’s Eve 1999

2013 Articles, Maria Ruiz, Travel

by Maria Ruiz

My partner and I ran away from home. Yes, that's right. We sold everything, bought an old, used motor home and planned to see Mexico in six months.
Silly us. We spent three years and still had a lot more to see.

Jun 2012 30

Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point, Mexico: Perfect Vacation Spot Year Round

2012 Articles, Karen Lewis, Travel

by Karen Lewis

Puerto Peñasco is located on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. It is on the other side of the Gulf from Baja, California and is approximately one hour's drive south of the Arizona border.