Let's go to Mexico! It's closer than New York

Team Cancu (Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Xochitl), Wisdom Quarterly

Los Angeles to Chichén-Itzá: 11 ways to travel via train, plane, car (rome2rio.com)

• UPDATE: Trip to Mexico's Yucatan, right next to US

We never realized how close the touristy parts of Mexico are. From Los Angeles to the border with Mexico is less than an hour -- if the Highway Patrol is chasing behind and there's no traffic. But getting anywhere other than TJ (Tijuana) is not as easy. One might need a visa. Certainly, a passport is now necessary.

What's that in the forest, a head? - No, a pyramid.

One can go party in Rosarito over the weekend. But in doing so, one will never know how great Mexico is. First of all, 80% of the country is empty. People live in only a small band representing 20% around the capital. The strange demographics have more to do with terrain than demographics. But American tourists are really interested in the beaches and pyramids, the foods and cultural diversity of the United States of Mexico (Los Estados Undios Mexicanos, the country's real name).

• There used to be a Green Tortoise bus, where everyone would meet everyone and get very close before arriving at various adventure destinations. Wouldn't a boat from anywhere along the Gulf Coast be a better place to launch for a short ride over warm waters for backpackers?

Pre-Columbian Mexican diet: vegan

Each state has a particular influence from an influx of foreigners, such as the Germans of Jalisco. Few places have many Indigenous Nahuatl speaking (because Spanish is the foreign language of colonizers in Mexico) folks left, but every place bears their imprint on Mexican history and society.

The Mexica tribe is why it's called "Mexico." They were Aztecs or remnants of the Maya, Mixtecs, Toltecs, Olmecs, and others from before the conquest (European invasion spearheaded by the Europeans of Spain), all now Mestizos or "Blends."

But who knew just how close the tourist attractions of Mexico are? Cancun is closer than Baja California? Cut across and over the Gulf, or swim from Cuba, or drive down into Mesoamerica on a jeep and swing back up. It's time to visit!

Proposed NAMU unity flag, In Amero we trust

In the future, Mexico will be part of the USA as will Canada (called NAMU), according to psychic Sean David Morten, whose mother was the first woman to run for US vice president (alongside the great Geraldine Ferraro).

In that time, the famous greenback world oil currency will be replaced with the Amero (like the Euro replaced currencies with the formation of the European Union or EU, with the except of the UK, which reneged on its agreements to join but found that its central banking system had a harder time controlling the world without the British pound to manipulate).

The Amero coin already exists (equivalent to $20) and has, for example, been used to pay interest on our massive debt to China. But that's a secret, and it may have been a trick to appease the Chinese when the value of the greenback was precipitously slipping.