Tijuana
Baja Californians take themselves and their history more seriously. They are part of a culture much older than our own. Here we are so unencumbered by tradition that we have entirely lost track of time.
One recent morning when I arrived at Sister Maggie Yee’s home in Tijuana, she had just put her foot through the floor. She was laughing about this. The house, set in Colonia Altamira about a …
The first Mexico stories I ever heard were as a result of being dispatched to San Diego to undergo the trials and errors of bootcamp. In the first few days, even before they slipped us …
The big savings are reaped on goods whose prices are controlled by the Mexican government.
If film directors like Altman and Fellini ever run out of suitable sites for their confettilike pageantries, they might do well by turning towards Tijuana. The rolling hills, crippled streets, lopsided architecture, high pressure street …
We sit in the outer room of the Clinica San Martin, trading words like amulets. Each one, an additive charm, wards off the silence of estrangement, builds bridges of humor at the difficulty of our …
Second only to the area downtown south of Broadway, my favorite place in the whole San Diego area is Tijuana. Go ahead and laugh. I've got my reasons. First of all, I think a walk …
The menu changes every day. Every day! That went out years ago in most places. They do real cooking, so you can always say "the cook got drunk and the cat fell in the stew" or something.