Polaroid

This week’s Polaroid features one of Mexico City’s most iconic attractions: the Beetle taxi. Sadly, they all have to retire by the end of 2012 – find out why!

Although Valladolid is with 45,000 considerably big, it has more the feel of a sleepy Mexican village, with pastel colored colonial buildings and a tranquil town center. A lot of the women still wear the typical Mayan dresses and sell hand-made dresses and other crafts around the town square.

Back in Chiang Mai we wanted to see more of Northern Thailand’s scenic countryside and took a bicycle tour through rice fields, tiny villages and hot springs.

We took our rental car for a spin around the island of Langkawi beyond the beautiful Cenang beach and discovered it was monkey business as usual wherever we went!

We’re back in Chicago visiting friends and family and are falling in love with this beautiful city all over again! See one of our favorite spots, the Bean, at night!

I made it all up to Jaffna in the far north west of Sri Lanka, a city still very much marked by the civil war that tore the country apart until 2009. However, I found a hopeful, welcoming community of Tamil people there!

Mexico City’s Plaza Garibaldi is best known for the gatherings of the Mariachi musicians, especially on the weekends. The Plaza is located a ten minute walk up the Eje Central …

Check out these colorful chicks! An Easter custom in the Middle East and Asia, we found baskets filled with multi-colored chicks here in Copan, Honduras in celebration of Christmas.

I returned to Southern Arizona this week and couldn’t be happier to be back in my beloved Sonoran Desert, enjoying the blooming Saguaro Cacti on desert hikes!

As winter is arriving in New York City, I am getting ready to leave the cold behind, switching the chilly temperature for Colombia’s hot and sunny Caribbean coast.