The Blob That Ate Oaxaca and other Travel Tales, by Carlos Amantea. Different, somewhat metaphysical. Nothing to Declare ,Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, by Mary Morris. Stories of her travels in Mexico and Central America, in search of the dark cloud that surrounds every silver lining. Whiny, and negative, but still worth reading.
Some people concentrate on the cow poop, and ignore the flowers that grow because of it.