Now that I am done shooting for the summer, I figured what better time than to sit and go through my images from Mexico and figure out what to blog? It wasn’t an easy task, but I narrowed it down to my, oh, 100 or so favorites!
I’ll split this up into a couple different posts so that it isn’t totally overwhelming! 🙂
My trip started out in St. Louis, where I hopped a plane to Houston and then to Guadalajara. It was a lot of waiting!

I’m not going to be chronological here, and instead will just share a bunch of collages of highlights of the trip. First, the hacienda!
We stayed at La Hacienda El Carmen, a beautiful resort tucked away about an hour and a half outside of Guadalajara in Ahualulco del Mercado, Jalisco. It was breath-taking and amazing! I shared a suite with Erin Glaser, a talented photographer from California.

Our suite, the Alcoba Dona Ampara (I can’t figure out how to do tildes on here!)


There were real, live peacocks roaming the grounds, and they were so entertaining! I spent several minutes during lunch one day playing with this guy, who kept hiding behind the ferns and peaking out at me, trying to figure out where to go to get around me.





by Wendi Riggens
Alex - Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
alejandro bernal - its nice there isnt it,i spent three years in el carmen,my mom and dad were born there.i love el carmen
Doreen Kerby - I enjoyed your images and comments. made me want to go back. I loved it there.
My suite was lovely, the food was excellent, the tours were veru educational. The Hacienda is in good hands – well managed and the staff went out of their way to be helpful and friendly.