Author Rachel Denning

Bereft of moolah after our fender-bender incident, we still moved ahead with plans as usual. We drove to Agua Azul, not thinking that there might be an entrance fee. When we arrived at the gate, and saw th...

So, I have a problem. There are so many funny, fascinating, terrible, incredible experiences that happen to us, nearly on a daily basis, that I could write a book. But I can't write a book everyday. I...

(Yes, yes, I know Christmas has passed...I'm trying to catch up). "You've got to visit Chiapas, it's a beautiful state," we were told by a local resident of Mexico City, while in Valle del Bravo, Mexico....

Since we'd left Alaska in April, we'd been searching for it. As we cruised through Canada, explored the Western coast of the U.S. and the beaches of California, always we searched for it, but it seemed to e...

Sunshine follows the storm, and happy times follow unpleasant ones. We'd had an irksome time in Oaxaca city, but a quickly repentant husband soon turned it around. The evening found us outside the city o...

I don't know why, but Greg just started the day in a funk. (Oh wait, I do know why…it's because we'd planned to record more videos for our course, and I'd forgotten to charge the video camera.) It's pretty...

There's something special about Monte Alban. It took some effort to get there from the city of Oaxaca, mainly because the taxi drivers decided to hold a strike the day we drove into town. While waiting for...

Cholula is home to the biggest pyramid in Mesoamercia. Not only that, but on top of that pyramid (mostly in ruin and overgrown, making it look like a giant hill) is built a very large and ornate cathedral. ...