Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend?
I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region [...]

(World Hum, The Washington Post, Traveler’s Tales Best Travel Writing 2007) While many of my fellow Americans are watching Jack Black play an aspiring Mexican wrestler in “Nacho Libre,” I’ve come south on this balmy summer evening for the real deal.

(National Geographic Adventure) Fourteen days exploring southern Mexico.