I’ve been searching for a good Mexican place in Pennsylvania since I moved here. I’ve tried:
- TexMex in North Wales – Not bad, but a little too Tex for me, french fries just don’t go with mexican
- Tortugas in Collegeville – I’ve gone here twice, but it’s really not all that good (in spite of good reviews)
- Mexican place in Kennett Square – Good! But Kennett Square is an hour from my house, a bit far to drive and I’m rarely in the area
Last night Michael surrendered to my want of Mexican food and we tried El Cactus (what a horrible name!) in Souderton. It got good reviews so we though it would be decent. Unfortunately it was basically another Torugas, meh. Clearly people in PA don’t know Mexican food. The guacamole was good and fresh though.
Nita tells me that Coyote Crossing in Conshohocken is pretty good, I’ll have to drag her there someday when I’m at her place visiting %)
I really wish the Margaritas chain extended down here to PA, it’s sad that you can get better mexican at a chain in New England than you can here. I’ll have to hit the one in Nasuha, NH the next time I’m up there visiting family.
But this blabbering about lousy mexican food in PA was only an intro to the real news of this entry – we decided where we are going for our honeymoon!
I know, this is generally something planned months in advance, but we just weren’t sure what we were going to do. Should we just do another hiking and B&B trip around West Virginia and take a more extravagant honeymoon later? Should we just wait on the honeymoon altogether until we can afford a trip to Europe? Should we go with the suggestion of a couple we met at a beer-tasting and check out the Grand Canyon?
The Grand Canyon! That’s where we should go! It’s in the US, so we don’t need to get passports. The flights inside the US are still reasonable (under $300 per ticket out to Phoenix from Philadelphia and back). With all the Native American studies we’ve been into it’d be interesting to finally get out there, as neither of us has been to any of the states out west.
So I told my boss on friday that I’d be taking the week off after my wedding, and I started browsing travel sites for the area. Of course browsing travel sites is a horrible thing to do, since they’re all trying to sell you something and it’s horribly overwhelming.
Very lucky for us, one of the couples we’re inviting to our wedding owns a house in Sedona, AZ (their primary residence is in Maine, we visited them for New Years last year). So I hit up our friend for some tips and advice about the area – must see spots, good places to stay. She insisted that this couldn’t be discussed over IRC (too much to say!) and wanted to call me.
I spent the next half hour on the phone with her, a conversation that began “First of all, we decided you should stay at our house in Sedona.” SQUEE!!! How fantastic!!! How sweet of them!!! Then she went into all sorts of places we should visit, asked about what we wanted to do. We narrowed it down to staying in Sedona for most of the week, and taking a quick trip out for a day and night at the Grand Canyon. Later in the day she sent a .txt file detailing a possible outline of each day of our trip, lots of information about places in the area, tips about where we’re going and all sorts of fantasticness. Wow! It was so awesome of her to take the time to do that. We’re so lucky to have such good friends.
So we’ll be flying into Phoenix on Monday morning, renting a car, driving to Sedona, spend a couple days there relaxing and hiking. Head to the Grand Canyon probably Wednesday and spend the day and the night there, maybe some time Thursday too before driving back to Sedona. Relax/hike/shop more in Sedona on Friday. Drive back to Phoenix Saturday to catch our flight home. Spend Sunday recovering from time difference so we can go to work on Monday. I wish we could spend more time there, but I don’t have enough vacation time to be gone much longer.
Not bad for only planning a month in advance. I’m so excited! Buying plane tickets today.