Mexico

Editorial note: Rick Koril was asked by the publisher to  write about the Bush Pilots and the  Flying Samaritans who show how Americans have helped rural life in Mexico. Since Koril is a member of both organizations, and lives next door to the publisher’s second home south of the border, he has first-hand knowledge and is very involved in both…

Where we stay in Baja California, Mexico, there is no fresh water. We have the ocean water, and the water which can be drilled for — but that has so much…

I spend almost every nice morning rowing my boat around beautiful Conception Bay, or Bahía Concepción, as it is known in Mexico, on the Gulf of California.…

In 20 years, one accumulates so many vivid memories of trips taken to Mexico, starting with the most amazing trip of all, sailing out the Golden Gate to a land hundreds of miles away, and not knowing what kind of challenges we would have out to sea. Our original intention was to sail around the world, but after 32 days at sea we ended up in…

Editor’s Note: This column was first published on March 31, 2005. Although we have spent many years in Mexico, we had never been here during Easter…

We felt really guilty last Christmas when the temperature hit 84 degrees along the coast of the Sea of Cortez, and we sailed out to a deserted island for a…

A group of monks left Guatamala in the mid 1500s to form a new monastery north in Chiapas, where the town of San Cristabol now sits. They were called Mercedarians, and they were something like a warrior monk as the Monastery they built was like a fortress which could be defended if necessary. This monastery servered as the home…

Prices in the Mexican state of Chiapas are very cheap in comparison to the rest of Mexico, and in fact, compared to world travel in general. Taxis are about…

Chiapas, the most southern state in Mexico, has some of the most significant Mayan ruins in all of Mexico. We use the word Mayan, or Maya, loosely as it is…