Yesterday I returned from an 11 day family vacation to Mexico City and Acapulco, along with a day trip to a national park called La Marquesa, just west of Mexico City. La Marquesa is in a temperate valley surrounded by rolling mountains of pine trees and the day there was one of the highlights of the vacation. There are a multitude of activities there: soccer, hiking, kite flying, frisbee, football games, fishing, 4 wheelers, horseback riding, and more.
After throwing a football around for awhile we sat down outside a restaurant and ate tacos, quesadillas, tlacoyos, and huaraches. I chose to wash it down with a michelada, a beer with salt on the rim of the bottle and lemon juice and hot sauce added to the beer. After that we rode four wheelers and then played a game of touch football with about 15 kids and adults. Finally we went back to the picnic tables and took about another 90 minutes to finally pick up and leave.
It was one of those long, sunny days where you forget about time and stress and just have fun. As a youth I spent summer days like that in the towns of Alaska and Holland State Park, MI. Now that the weather has turned for the better I hope you'll plan a day trip somewhere near you and enjoy some leisure time in the great outdoors.
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