Metro Fare Going Up!

But not that much. Metro fares will rise for the first time in 8 years by one peso, from 2 pesos to 3 pesos (that’s about 8 cents US per ticket). The metro is an amazing system and serves the city well, so I don’t think that anybody is complaining.

The Magic Year

Apparently, the only used cars that can now be imported to Mexico are from 1998! Nothing older, nothing newer. Period.
Cars newer than that were banned from imports as unwelcome competition for Mexican car dealers, and anything more than 15 years old was seen as a potential environmental and safety hazard.
But now, under pressure from Mexico’s [...]

In the shadow of the Mountain King

We’re in Monterrey today, in the shadow of the great mountain that gives this city its name, and just a few blocks away from Mexico’s premier private school, the Tec de Monterrey.
Yesterday we ran as many errands as possible in San Antonio before heading south, and then after a little bit of fun at the [...]

The Road Continues

Well, we have crossed the 2500 mile marker on our trip to Dallas and back. It has been a good trip, and we’ll have to post some pictures of long stretches of Mexico highway, sometimes cutting through strange cactus forests, at other times rumbling through mountains, and every once and awhile girded by sweeping double [...]

To The Cold North

Tomorrow Ruth and I will leave our pleasant lake top valley for the cold north of southern Texas. We’ll be visiting some of our supporting churches and hopefully some of you!