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This week on the podcast we are joined by our friends Mitko & Sarah Karshovski. Mitko & Sarah are full-time digital nomads who are currently based in Mexico. In 2022, they adopted a dog named Dexter, and are here to share what life has been like traveling and being nomadic with a pet. In this episode, Mitko & Sarah share their considerations when deciding to get a dog, what is required to fly with a dog, how having a dog has made travel different than it was before, what they’ve learned over the last year of traveling with Dexter, and much more.

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This week on the podcast we are answering a few questions submitted by listeners of the show! We’re talking about life in Mexico, raising a child abroad, safety concerns, our favorite tacos, what’s on our travel bucket lists and more! This episode was really fun to record so hopefully you guys enjoy it and if you have a question that you’d like us to answer, feel free to send it our way for the next Q&A episode.

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Mexico is an amazing place for a beach vacation, a road trip, or a few weeks or months of traveling around! There is so much to see and do in Mexico, but because it’s such a big, diverse country, we often get asked what is the best way to travel Mexico. In this week’s podcast episode, we discuss the best ways to get around Mexico – plane, bus or driving. We share considerations for each, companies that we recommended, the pros and cons of each mode of transportation, price considerations and more. We hope this episode is informative and helps you plan your next trip to Mexico!

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Amy Scott. Originally from the United States and currently based in central Mexico, Amy has been traveling and living abroad since 2004. She’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs, freelancers, and remote workers harness the power of location independence to create freedom in their life and work. As the founder of Nomadtopia, Amy connects and supports people around the globe who are building their own version of a location-independent lifestyle (aka Nomadtopia). In this episode of the show, Amy shares her travel story, what led her to take her first solo trip and then set out as a digital nomad in 2007. She shares her journey since then, including meeting her husband in Argentina, getting married, and eventually getting pregnant and having twins in Mexico. She talks about the decision to have babies abroad, why Mexico, what her experience was like, and more.

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• How Amy started traveling and living abroad
• Working in the US before moving to Argentina
• Knowing when you’re ready to transition into a digital nomad lifestyle
• Amy’s experience of living in Buenos Aires
• Traveling as a couple vs. traveling solo
• Deciding on where to have a baby and why Mexico was chosen
• How things have shifted for Amy since having two babies and her travel plans for the future
• And much more… Listen now!

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This week on the podcast we are sharing what we’ve been up to since we did our year in review episode at the end of 2021! We share where we’ve traveled to, what it’s been like planting roots in Queretaro, and of course, having baby Louise in Mexico and what life as parents has been like so far. We also share our upcoming travel plans, and what’s next for us! While this year hasn’t been heavy on the travel side, it’s been pretty amazing starting a new chapter with our littlest Wanderer.

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• Becoming parents in February
• Learning about Mexican bureaucracy
• Signing a year lease and diving into a local community
• Exploring domestic travel in Mexico
• Road trip plans for the future
• And much more… Listen now!

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This week on the podcast we are taking you to Campeche, Mexico! San Francisco de Campeche is the biggest city in the state of Campeche, located in the southeast corner of Mexico near the Yucatan and Quintana Roo. This is one of the smaller states in Mexico and it is likely not a place that is on your radar unless you’ve spent quite a bit of time in Mexico! We visited Campeche back in 2021 and in this episode, we share with you why we went, what we did, why we recommend that you add Campeche to your Mexico bucketlist, and more! 

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• San Francisco de Campeche is the largest city in the state of Campeche 
• It’s located in the southeast of Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico 
• It’s often overlooked and outshone by its neighbors – the Yucatan and Quintana Roo 
• ~900,000 people in the state, making it the 3rd smallest state in Mexico 
• Campeche has a few famous haciendas, including Hacienda Uayamon and Hacienda Puerta Campeche 

Things to do in Campeche:

• Eat one Calle 59 – lively street with a lot of restaurants 
• Walk on the Malecon 
• Visit the forts on either side of the city – Fuerte de San Miguel and Fuerte San Jose Alto 
• Edzna Ruins – you can take tours or rent a car, but we took a collectivo 
• Known for its handicrafts and artisanal goods 
• Calakmul – these are the most famous ruins in Campeche, but they are closer to the Guatemala border 
• There is no actual beach in Campeche so you have to go to Ciudad del Carmen down the peninsula to go to the beach 

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This week on the podcast we are talking about our top day trips to take from Mexico City! Being one of the largest and most diverse countries in the world, there is a ton to keep you busy in Mexico City, but if you’re there for more than a few days it can be great to get outside of the city and explore some of the surrounding historical locations, pueblos, cities, and national parks. In this episode, we share some of our top recommendations for how to spend a day trip outside of Mexico City, including the pyramids of Teotihuacan, hiking in Nevado de Toluca, Tepoztlan, Puebla, and more.

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Top Options: 

• Pyramids at Teotihuacán 
• From Wikipedia: “Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the first millennium (1 AD to 500 AD), Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, with a population estimated at 125,000 or more,[2][3] making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch.[4]”
• A popular trip is to do a sunrise hot air balloon
• You can take the bus or get an Uber. There are also lots of Airbnb experiences and tours 

• Tepoztlán, Morelos 
• 90 km and about 2hrs from CDMX. 
• You can find tours that go there, very easy to do yourself by going to the south bus station and buying a bus fair 

• San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
• ~250km and closer to 3.5hrs in car 
• Probably better to stay overnight, but many people make a day trip out of it

• Nevado de Toluca 
• From wiki: Nevado de Toluca is a stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is the fourth highest of Mexico’s peaks, after Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. The volcano and the area around it is now a national park.
• There are a couple different hiking options in the half day range, it’s cold and at high elevation so you should be a strong hiker and accustomed to the elevation 

• Taxco 
• 185 km and 2.5hrs from CDMX in Guerrero state it’s known as one of the most beautiful states in Mexico 
• From wiki: It is a small city and administrative center of Taxco de Alarcón Municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Taxco is located in the north-central part of the state, 36 kilometres (22 miles) from the city of Iguala, 135 kilometres (84 miles) from the state capital of Chilpancingo and 170 kilometres (106 miles) southwest of Mexico City.
• The city is heavily associated with silver, both with the mining of it and other metals and for the crafting of it into jewelry, silverware and other items. Today, mining is no longer a mainstay of the city’s economy. The city’s reputation for silverwork, along with its picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes, have made tourism the main economic activity.

• Popocatepetl Volcano 
  • From wiki: 
    • Popocatépetl is 70 km (43 mi) southeast of Mexico City, from where it can be seen regularly, depending on atmospheric conditions. Until recently, the volcano was one of three tall peaks in Mexico to contain glaciers,[8] the others being Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba. In the 1990s, the glaciers such as Glaciar Norte (North Glacier) greatly decreased in size, partly due to warmer temperatures but largely due to increased volcanic activity.[9] By early 2001, Popocatépetl’s glaciers were gone; ice remained on the volcano, but no longer displayed the characteristic features of glaciers such as crevasses.[10][11][12]
    • Popocatépetl (Spanish pronunciation: [popokaˈtepetl] (audio speaker iconlisten); Nahuatl: Popōcatepētl Nahuatl pronunciation: [popoːkaˈtepeːt͡ɬ]) is an active stratovolcano located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and Mexico in central Mexico. It lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt. At 5,426 m (17,802 ft)[1] it is the second highest peak in Mexico, after Citlaltépetl (Pico de Orizaba) at 5,636 m (18,491 ft).
    • It is linked to the twin volcano of Iztaccihuatl to the north by the high saddle known as the “Paso de Cortés”.[5] Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park, wherein the two volcanoes are located, is named after them.[6][7]
    • Lava erupting from Popocatépetl has historically been predominantly andesitic, but it has also erupted large volumes of dacite.[13] Magma produced in the current cycle of activity tends to be a mixture of the two with the andesites being rich in magnesium.[14

• Within the city, but still more of a half-day trip: 
  – Xocimilco 
  – Santa Fe 

Next on the list: 

• Puebla 
• Cuernavaca 
• Toluca 

• And much more… Listen now!

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This week on the podcast we are talking about 5 under the radar cities in Mexico that we recommend adding to your Mexico travel bucket list! We kickoff this episode by sharing the cities that we would consider most on the radar, as well as the cities that you may have heard of, but haven’t considered traveling to, and then finally we dive into our top 5 under the radar cities that we know and love and would recommend definitely recommend that you travel to!

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On the Radar

• Cancun 
• Tulum
• Playa del Carmen
• Mexico City
• Puerto Vallarta
• Sayulita 
• Cabo
• Tijuana
• Mazatlan 
• Acapulco 

Kind of On the Radar

• San Miguel de Allende
• Merida 
• Guadalajara 
• Monterrey 
• Oaxaca 
• Manzanillo 
• Puebla 

Under the Radar

• San Cristóbal de las Casas
• Puerto Escondido
• Campeche
• Queretaro 
• Guanajuato

Honorable Mentions: 

• Tepotzlan
• Barra de Navidad 
• Valladolid
• La Paz 

• And much more… Listen now!

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This week on the podcast we are taking you on an adventure of driving from Canada to Mexico! We took a trip back to Canada this summer to visit family and friends and decided that we wanted to drive our car down to Mexico. At the time of our trip, the US land border was still closed so we ended up shipping our car from Alberta to Salt Lake City and flying to meet it there.

We share what the process was like to transport a car across the US border, what our drive from Salt Lake City to Austin was like, the process of preparing to cross into Mexico with our car, crossing the Mexican border, and driving from the border all the way to Queretaro, Mexico where we are now! This was a super fun adventure that we are very excited to share with you!

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• The background on planning a road trip to Mexico
• The roundabout way of getting your car from Canada to the US
• Travel through Utah, Colorado, and Texas
• The basics of taking your Canadian or US car into Mexico
• How you get a temporary import permit and Mexican insurance for your car
• How we decided which border crossing to take into Mexico
• Risks & safety concerns with driving into Mexico
• How do you make decisions as a travel about what is and isn’t safe?
• The route we took through Mexico
• Getting used to driving in Mexico
• What we like about traveling with a car
• Plans for the next few months
• And much more… Listen now!

Links:

• Temporary Import Permit
• Mexico Mike’s road guides for Mexico: https://www.mexicomike.com/

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