Felipe Calderon says its time for all of us in the tourism industry to tighten our Teva straps. He’s unveiled a new plan, Vive Mexico (Mexico Lives), to help bring bodies back into hotel rooms. The plan involves getting big time celebrities to talk up the country like it was their favorite plastic surgeon or [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 22, 2009
Aftershocknek
Just picture it: A little five-year-old Chilangabacha (probably wearing an outfit very similar to the ones I wear today- t-shirt jeans, tennies- except instead of a ponytail, really long trenzas) chillin’ in the living room in the Inland Empire with Chilangamama. Before you could even say Rancho Cucamonga, the room starts swaying enough for me [...]
May 18, 2009
Volverte a Sudar
So I overslept this morning and missed my first Zumba class. I’m going to write about it to make up for it. I’ll totally burn the same amount of calories sitting here on my ottoman drinking a coffee.
Just finding a decent gym in this town is its own workout. One place had like a hundred [...]
May 13, 2009
Get off my flu-y beach
Symptoms of the H1N1 virus may include: vacant hotel rooms, out of work taxistas and lonely dolphins.
When the H1N1 virus sprayed down like a giant estornuda over Mexico, I expected my Skype to go on overload with messages from friends and family begging me to come to the states. Well.. not so much. Instead I [...]
May 2, 2009
Armchair Epidemiologist
Last Thursday I went out reporting with a videographer who had read many of the flu cases had come from the Gustavo Madero neighborhood in the northern part of Mexico City. In addition to being home to the Basilica de Guadelupe ,the most important Catholic site in the Western Hemisphere, the neighborhood is also home [...]
