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The lady at the specialty store in Son Bou may have led us to our second best discovery in all of Menorca. A dessert called Terrina de helado elaborada con queso d

While casually taking suggestions from our B&B hosts at The Red Tree House (which by the way is the place to stay), they suggested we take a day trip to Xochimilco with Ricardo Rodriguez of De La Chinampa tour company. He operates a CSA (community supported agriculture) style business — delivering fresh produce grown by his fellow farmers to homes and even restaurants. His main goal with such tours is to raise awareness about the importance of Xochimilco to Mexico City’s burgeoning population in order to feed and support local farmers. Fresh guacamole, chips, salad from the gardens of Xochimilco, coffee (with sugarcane and cinnamon), white cheese from the milk of cows grazing here and steamed tamales that Ricardo’s wife along with one of the farmers had prepared for all of us.

Earlier this summer, we planned a quick getaway to the White Sands National Monument, a vast gypsum desert in New Mexico. Ours were fairly simple: To see a landscape that doesn’t resemble anything we’ve seen in the past To pack a three day trip to a place that we could score reasonably priced flights for Flying into Albuquerque meant driving for three hours to reach Alamogordo, the town nearest to White Sands. We’re huge lovers of walking tours (this could be a post of its own), and our walk at White Sands was a lesson about the region’s geography, flora, fauna and lots of interesting nuggets thrown in. We returned on the following morning to complete the short driving loop inside the monument, take more photographs, attempt sledding and visit the Alkali Flat Trail.