Trying STRANGE new foods in Mexico!
When we wake up each day, we usually don't have much clue as to what types of adventures and shenanigans are about to unfold. In today's travel vlog in Mexico, we ended up trying new things in Mexico... Cactus, Tejuino, Pitayas, and more!
At first, we went to breakfast with Laska where we did something we might not have done a few months ago: trying strange foods in Mexico. No spoilers! After we ate, we grabbed some bikes for Via Recreactiva in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was our first attempt at riding a bike with a husky. There were many other people biking with a dog (well-behaved dogs at that) but you just need to watch and see what happens with Laska.
Later in the day, we meet up with a new friend, who shows us around Glorieta Chapalita in GDL on Sunday where people have art displayed all around the perimeter. Since we were already on a trend of trying new things in Mexico, we had two more things: pitaya and tejuino!
Although we usually love sampling new and unusual dishes and whatnot throughout Guadalajara and México, we had ourselves thinking... wow, this was a lot of new in one day! Can't believe we tried this in Mexico. And we're so glad we did. :)
What should we try next?
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The US Food Supply is MESSED UP & Why Food in Mexico is SUPERIOR
What is one of the biggest reasons we decided to travel to Mexico (despite what we were hearing about it on the news)? The simple answer is: intolerance to food.
Maddie was dealing with terrible food intolerance and health issues, she could hardly function each day. No matter what type of food she ate, it caused a reaction. It was one food allergy after another that developed: gluten intolerance, dairy intolerance, lactose intolerance, onions, peas, meat, the list goes on. It was one allergic reaction after another. We quickly started to feel like our food is poisoning us.
Maddie has dealt with many health issues in her life from leaky gut, to ibs, and adrenal fatigue syndrome. Although she doesn't have celiac disease, she deals with a severe gluten sensitivity.
In addition to being gluten free, Maddie has also been forced into a vegan diet. But the dietary restrictions didn't stop there! Over the course of a number of months, the food intolerance got worse. Her nutritional intake was awful due to the diet restrictions and overall health was a serious concern!
In today's video, we'll be answering why I'm intolerant to food in the US. After eating in Mexico for over three months, we know one thing for certain: food in Mexico is superior to food in the United States.
There are a few clear explanations why Mexican food is superior and we'll be sharing them with you as we walk around Glorieta Chapalita in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Do you agree that food in Mexico is superior? Share in the comments below!
Amtrak and Las Vegas, New Mexico in 4K
Las Vegas New Mexico was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. The town was laid out in the traditional Spanish Colonial style, with a central plaza surrounded by buildings which could serve as fortifications in case of attack. Las Vegas soon prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican-American War in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the United States.
A railroad was constructed to the town in 1880. The tracks were laid east of the Gallinas River, a mile from the Plaza. When the iron horse finally arrived on July 4, 1879, hundreds of citizens gathered around, including merchants, professionals, desperadoes, and dance-hall girls. To maintain control of development rights, it established a station and related development one mile east of the Plaza, creating a separate, rival New Town, as occurred elsewhere in the Old West. During the railroad era, Las Vegas boomed, quickly becoming one of the largest cities in the American Southwest. Turn-of-the-century Las Vegas featured all the modern amenities, including an electric street railway, the Duncan Opera House at the northeast corner of 6th Street and Douglas Avenue, a Carnegie library, the Hotel Castaneda (a major Harvey House), and the New Mexico Normal School (now New Mexico Highlands University). Since the decline and restructuring of the railroad industry began in the 1950s, the city's population has remained relatively constant.
The six trains that stopped there daily opened up an era of prosperity, bringing with it both legitimate businesses and shady characters.
The Fred Harvey Company as well as the AT&SF built the Castaneda Harvey House in 1898. Prior to that there were two earlier buildings on the site in 1881 and 1885. When the railroad constructed the hotel they were taking advantage of the natural hot springs adjacent to it. This was quite a tourist draw and even today you can relax in one of the outdoor hot water tubs. In its day it was a nationally popular resort in Las Vegas NM.
La Castaneda is one of the earliest Harvey Houses to be built in the Mission Revival style. The Rawlings Building which is across the street from the hotel and the Las Vegas train station was used during the period to house the Harvey Girls who staffed the La Castaneda. The Harvey Girls and their history is a unique part of the Fred Harvey tradition. Harvey Girls were held to extremely high standards and did much for the reputation of the Harvey Houses.
La Castaneda was a sister hotel to Albuquerque's Alvarado Hotel, which was unfortunately demolished in 1970, and the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. It has stood forlorn and mostly empty alongside the railroad tracks in Las Vegas for decades.
The hotel is ready for a makeover and Allan Affeldt will try to repeat in Las Vegas what he did in the 1990s when he and his wife helped save the then-decrepit La Posada hotel in Winslow, Ariz. That was another of the Harvey Houses that dotted New Mexico, Arizona and California to serve train travelers.
Affeldt said the hotel’s rooms, some now with collapsing roofs, will be enlarged and since most did not have individual bathrooms, those will be added. The old Castaneda had 40 some rooms while the new one will have about 25.
Affeldt says the idea is to recreate that turn-of-the-19th-century hotel where it should look and feel as much as possible like it originally did, but as a collector of contemporary art, he wants to support contemporary artists in the community.
Furniture is not a challenge. Affeldt said he bought all of the original hand-painted furniture from La Fonda, which sold off room furnishings during a remodel last year.
“We will also use it as a space for all kinds of exhibits and shows and lectures. So we want to make it a vibrant community space. We want to do a lot of events, like in the courtyard, in the dining room. There’s no space like this in Las Vegas.”
The restoration of the AT&SF steam locomotive, 2926, is almost complete and the plan is to provide excursions from Albuquerque to Las Vegas, NM where passengers can stay at the Castaneda Hotel. Of course Amtrak’s Southwest Chief also makes two stops in Las Vegas providing more possibilities for the hotel to become a destination stop.
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MASSIVE PARTY!! Our FIRST Mexican Independence Day!
This weekend we experienced our FIRST Military Parade and Mexican Independence Day in Guadalajara, MX.
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We could HARDLY WAIT to experience our first Mexican Independence Day (dia de la independencia) since beginning our travels in Mexico.
We spent it in our long-time home city, Guadalajara Jalisco. After enjoying how Mexico parties in Downtown GDL, we woke up the next morning to watch the Military Parade (desfile militar) on Avenida Chapultepec.
Although we're sad we were right in the square for El Grito the night before, we still enjoyed the party in Guadalajara Mexico. Our first holiday in México was a huge success! We are already counting down the days until Dia de la Independencia next year. Maybe we can see how Mexico parties in Mexico City next time!
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PV Chapel Hill on the Southwest Chiefs in New Mexico. 4K
The Chapel Hill was originally built in 1922 for Post Cereals Heiress, Marjorie Merriweather Post, and stock broker and investment banker E.F. Hutton, at the St. Charles, Missouri plant of American Car & Foundry in Lot 9336 to Plan 2081.
Originally christened Hussar, the car was used for company business and personal travel between their principal residence in New York City; their Hispanic-Moresque winter estate, Mar-a-lago, in Palm Beach; and Camp Topridge, the couple’s summer retreat in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. It was also used extensively for entertainment, as Post was known as a lavish hostess.
The Huttons divorced in 1935 and the Hussar became a part of Post’s settlement. She later remarried Joseph E. Davies, a Washington, D.C. attorney and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Belgium. After the Davies left for the Soviet Union in 1937, the Hussar was sold to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway – Office Car 3 Shortly after the car was acquired, a Pullman air-conditioning system, complete with roof ducting, was installed. The Hussar was renamed simply Office Car 2. It was renumbered several times before finally settling on Office Car 3.
In 1957, the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) modernized the entire window line. Other exterior changes through the years included roller bearings added to the trucks, a rebuilt open-platform and the service door relocated to the opposite side of the car, across from the kitchen and pantry.
DeWitt Chapple, Jr. purchased Office Car 3 from C&O in 1971. Chapple retained the car’s number, but added the name Chapel Hill after his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill.
Chapple’s interest in private cars stems from early school years. He was a guest of Frank Pidcock III on the Georgia Northern’s business car Moultrie, which later became the Gold Coast, the first private car owned by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. It is now an honored show piece at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
In 1972, Chapple made his first private car trip aboard the now renamed Chapel Hill to Philadelphia on the rear of the National Limited. Since then he has accumulated over 250,000 miles aboard the Chapel Hill both in the United States and Canada.
The Chapel Hill has the further distinction of being one of three private cars in attendance at the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners (AAPRCO) first private car convention in Chicago in 1978. DeWitt Chapple was also a founding member of AAPRCO and served as its president in 2004 and 2005. DeWitt has attended all 37 annual AAPRCO conventions since its inception, and the Chapel Hill has attended 30+ AAPRCO conventions.
Rich in history, the Chapel Hill continues its travels throughout the United States today, logging thousands of miles annually. In 2009, Jeff and Tracy McClorey sold their share of Chapel Hill, to John and Anne Atherton, and Lee and Lisa Nordloh in order to concentrate on Bromwell’s. In 2012 the Nordlohs sold their interest in Chapel Hill in order for Lee to concentrate on his surveying business. At that time Mark and Karen Werner were welcomed into the Chapel Hill family as partners.
11 Things that will SHOCK YOU about Guadalajara, Mexico
Before coming to Guadalajara, we never expected some of the weird, awesome, and crazy things here.
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Any new place you visit is going to have aspects that are unexpected, strange, cool, or just plain bizarre. It comes with the territory when traveling. As Americans in Mexico, the same thing happened when we came to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
After living in Guadalajara, Mexico for about 2 months as expats, we started to reflect on the things that shocked us about the city in today's Guadalajara vlog. Some of these are even more general and we consider surprising things about Mexico that seem to ring true no matter what city we've been to.
If you're pondering, should I move to Guadalajara or what it's like in Mexico, this video will hopefully give you an inside look at some of the quirks we've noticed about the city. As we mention in the video, they're not all bad. Some of them are amazing aspects that we really love. It's all part of what it's like in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Colorado to New Mexico on Raton Pass
This video takes a look at I-25 southbound through Raton Pass between Trinidad, CO. and Raton, NM. Granted it's not quite as scenic as I-70 on the Rockies or I-80 in the Sierras, but this road still has nice views (that the camera can't quite capture).
New Mexico Route 66 - GoPro - Time Laspe
Driving to East
- Cubero loop old 66
- Mesita, NM
- Los Lunas
- Peralta
- Bosque Farms
- Isleta Pueblo
via: Route 66, South 6, I-40 East and North 47
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Summer 2013
It's time to GET OUT of here!
We had 5 more months on our lease, but we're packing our bags and leaving in today's Guadalajara vlog.
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We've really loved our Airbnb in Guadalajara, but for a few reasons we just had to go. Truly, life in Guadalajara has been incredibly enjoyable. Compared to any other city in México, we've put out way more Guadalajara vlogs.
But due to some unexpected circumstances, we're packing up our tangerine Prius and taking off driving in Guadalajara.
In today's Mexico vlog, we share our packing experience and how we're minimalist traveling Mexico. Each of us has just two suitcases and a few extras that fit into the incredibly small space of our Prius C (the compact version of a Prius).
When we were considering moving to Mexico, we did a much research as we could to help things go a little more smoothly. One thing that has helped us out a lot in our travels is Airbnb. Airbnb makes it very easy for us to find affordable places to stay that are pet-friendly. We can imagine the difficulty of life in Mexico for us without the help of Airbnb. Traveling in Mexico can be a challenge sometimes, but since we've been expats and digital nomads for a while, things are getting a bit easier for us.
Hope you enjoy today's video, an assortment of adventure about our daily life in Mexico and traveling in Mexico with a dog (our husky, Laska).
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Eating a tamal leaf ... AGAIN!!
Jordan really doesn't know how to eat Mexican food. And Laska? She didn't see this giant fail coming!
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Join us today as we explore the neighborhood of our temporary Airbnb in Guadalajara, Mexico. We try out a new and delicious restaurant. Laska gets to explore one of the many parks in Guadalajara. And we set out to find some adventures in the Colonia Chapalita area.
Some days we travel to nearby cities. Other days we like to showcase our daily life in Mexico. This is one of those days where our life in Guadalajara, Mexico consists of a new restaurant, some fun in the park with Laska (one of her favorite things), and some other shenanigans to follow.
We open up a discussion on our Guadalajara vlog / Mexico vlog. Do you guys prefer (almost) daily videos, or would you rather we release a few Mexico travel vlogs each week where we go on big adventures? Let us know in the comments!
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