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Little known resort on Mexico's pacific coast
Posted July 19, 2007 at 01:55 PM
Manzanillo is an up-and-coming tourist city on the pacific coast of Mexico. Its past is more of an industrial port. However, Mexico's tourism department has big plans to develop the small town into a major tourism destination.
For now, you get to enjoy great beaches which are relatively empty even during the high [...]
place-name etymology
Posted June 08, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Two kinds of colonial naming: erasure and appropriation. But when it's always the colonists doing the naming, is one really preferable to the other? The recently created Nunavut (Inuktitut for "our land") is perhaps the only exception in the hemisphere.
Colored regions show names from the same language family (as categorized by the [...]
north american mass transit
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:55 PM
At a glance, many metros seem to be comparable in scale, but what separates New York from Baltimore is density: station-to-station distance, line overlap, and linkages.
Most systems are ogranized as a hub with spokes; the two notable exceptions are New York and Mexicop City, both of which are more like nets.
north american rail
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:05 PM
The rail network of North America continues to consolidate, but it is beginning to become transnational as well. Since NAFTA, Canadian National has acquired several US regional railways, and Kansas City Southern has purchased Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana -- both part of a drive towards a "NAFTA Rail" alliance. Together the eight Class I [...]
hotel basico
Posted May 18, 2006 at 11:48 PM
the most pleasurable and utilitarian hotel i've ever stayed it. the outdoor reception desk doubles as the juice bar in the morning where the beach chairs come down to form makeshift tables. guests can take out the cargo carrying mexican bicycles in which all of the beach gear (snorkels, masks, balls, toys, towels) available can fit with room [...]
