About Me and the Blog

Hey there! This is Isabella, the founder and main author of this Travel Blog about everything Cancun, the city where I have lived since 2010 and continues to be my home and base where I return to from my travels.

“I love sharing all I know about exploring Mexico and helping people traveling around this amazing country that I love so much and that I am so honored to call home“

That is why Let’s Travel to Cancun was born: to help you plan your trip and travel like a pro in Cancun. Enjoy your beautiful resorts (I will tell you about my favorite ones) and explore the surrounding area.

After living in Cancun for seven years, I left for a two years journey in Latin America, but I would always get back to Cancun. Although I love traveling and exploring new places, I can’t stay away for too long.

I started writing about Mexico, everywhere I have been, and the nomadic life in my first blog, Boundless Roads. In it, I aim to inspire solo female travelers to live their best travel adventures around the world and learn how to work while traveling, as I do.

A few years later, I decided to start another blog focused on traveling to Mexico. Here, I share all my Mexican adventures traveling solo around the country by car, bus, or tour. I love to go both off the beaten path and to the most popular places and share my tips on how you can do it, too, based on my personal experience.

Why a Cancun blog? I decided to create this new site about Cancun as a tribute to the city that welcomed me and gave me so much. I had to stay away for a while to see it with renewed eyes. And now I realize how much I am connected.

What you will find in “Let’s travel to Cancun”

I always say Cancun is a very ugly city and it’s not where you immerse yourself in the Mexican culture, BUT it has so much beauty in it and so much to offer.

It is a great base from which to explore Mexico while enjoying its spectacular turquoise views and white sand beaches.

I will help you do exactly that on this site. I will share the best beaches, restaurants, bars, tours, top hotels, and events—everything related to Cancun.

But here, you will also learn how to move around and look farther than Cancun.

I hope this site will help you discover new places and organize the trip of a lifetime to the most popular Mexican beach destination.

“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 

Robert Louis Stevenson

My story in a nutshell

If you want to learn more about me, here is a brief story on how I ended up in Mexico.

I came to Mexico for the first time in 2003. I went on a vacation backpacking in the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas. It was completely different from what you are seeing now, less developed and with very few tourists. I was visiting Palenque in Chiapas with only three other people. Nobody else was there. It was surreal.

I fell in love with Mexico and asked the tour company I was working for in Italy to send me here to work. They accepted my request. I was sent to Playa del Carmen to work as a tour rep welcoming Italian tourists.

I left after five months due to the company’s decision to send me to other countries. I traveled to and worked in Egypt, Seychelles, Jamaica, and Antigua and Barbuda. I loved exploring those incredible exotic places, but I knew somehow that one day, Mexico would call me back.

And that’s what happened in 2010 when I received a job offer from an important travel wholesaler, completely out of the blue. I didn’t even know that such a job existed. I accepted immediately even if I wasn’t sure whether it was for me, but I loved the idea to go back to Mexico.

The company was based in Cancun, and the job I was supposed to do turned out to be perfect for me. In fact, it took me around the Caribbean Islands, where I met amazing, like-minded people and learned about other destinations and their beautiful hotels.

I loved my life in Cancun when I wasn’t traveling for work. It was priceless to look at that bright blue water every time I could escape to the beach. I also loved exploring around and getting to know my new “home” better.

After 7 years, I needed a change of scenery career-wise, but I also wanted to travel more freely. So, I started exploring other opportunities to use my knowledge and make a living while traveling.

That is when my first blog Boundless Roads was born. I was setting off for an incredible adventure, at the age of 45.

I realized that was a bold move because those are decisions of a 20-year-old who has nothing to lose and could always go back and reinvent herself. But at 45, most people, including my parents, called me crazy.

But that was what I wanted, and I was sure that somehow, I would figure things out eventually. I started to write on Boundless Roads about my experiences on the road.

I traveled around Mexico for almost a year before leaving for South America, a trip I have never finished for many reasons (but I will go back to it).

First, because I travel really slowly, and second, because I missed Mexico and wanted to go back after 2 years on the road.

My blog wasn’t my source of income at the beginning so I picked up some online writing gigs and I was mainly living on my savings, until 2020 when I finally understood how to make it work and Boundless Roads became my full-time job (Eureka!!!) while I was traveling between Guatemala and Mexico.

That is when I decided to start my second blog, Let’s Travel to Mexico, where I could focus on my beloved Mexico only, sharing everything I know about this country, including off-the-beaten-path places where fewer tourists dare go.

From there I kept traveling around Mexico to discover new hidden secrets that I could talk about in the blog and take more pictures, my other passion.

This blogging journey, being able to help others follow their dreams, travel consciously and wisely, and plan their trips, has become addictive, and I always come up with new ideas on how I could help more.

I was chatting with a dear friend, who is also a blogger but with many hats, a professional photographer, a certified guide in the Yucatan Peninsula, and most of all, a beautiful person.

We are connected by our passion for this region and our sharing of knowledge through photos and stories. We decided to start a new project together, and Mexico Cenotes and Ruins was born.

In this blog, we share our passion for prehispanic history and discuss the Mayan world and its heritage, the Mayan Archaeological sites, and the refreshing cenotes.

We live in different places, but we love to meet up every now and then and explore the Mayan Land together. Even if we have lived here for more than ten years, there is always something new to discover.

Now, I am still based in Cancun but travel a lot around Mexico, returning to familiar places and exploring new ones. I feel so grateful that”I have found my way home”, and I manage to turn my nomadic lifestyle into my very own job.

I hope this site will help you find your way around Cancun!