Ensenada… the comeback kid of Baja California
The cruise ships are back, the real estate market is booming and business people are looking for space. For Ensenada, Mexico, a town that eight or nine years ago was […]
The cruise ships are back, the real estate market is booming and business people are looking for space. For Ensenada, Mexico, a town that eight or nine years ago was […]
I’ve been rumbling around this region of Mexico since the early 1990’s. For awhile, I think I knew every pothole on both routes to get to Ensenada from Tijuana. While I get there less frequently these days, my love affair with Mexico started in this region and the cities of […]
Wine and cheese are two words usually associated with places like Napa Valley and France, not the dry dusty climes of Baja California. But that is exactly where I was […]
A recent article on water and Baja California included this choice morsel… “Ensenada, the only municipality in Baja California that does not receive water from the [Colorado] river, has been […]
Recently the federal government of Mexico made an agreement with farm labor activists in the San Quintín Valley of Baja California Norte to subsidize their daily income. After a series […]
Here’s a little something different Dave Miller’s Mexico. If you follow us here, on Facebook, or on Twitter, you know we are more inclined towards mezcal. However, most of Mexico […]
Coffee. It is such a simple word, yet in Mexico, incredibly important, because seemingly almost everyone in this great country drinks coffee. When I first started visiting Mexico over 20 years ago I was not a big coffee drinker. Often siting around a table in someone’s house, coffee would be […]
It’s early in the morning and your Carnival Cruise ship is just about to let you disembark in Ensenada. You’ve now got 8 hours to see what was once a sleepy little Mexican town that used to entertain Hollywood royalty like Bing Crosby and John Wayne. Those days are long […]
I can’t remember the date, but I know the exact location. It was a small food stand in Rosarito called “Just for the Halibut.” It was there that I was introduced to one of the great culinary offerings of Mexico, the fish taco. This simple taco, whether it hails from […]
To the Mexican Board of Tourism, I’m writing to you in the hope that will you do something about a problem that has me worried. I know I’m a gringo, but trust me, I love Mexico and I want her, and her people to prosper. I’ve traveled and worked in […]