Mexico
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Sunday, 5 Apr 2009 | Views [949]
Ocosingo, Chiapas. More than any other region in Mexico, it is here in the densely-wooded hills of Chiapas that I feel like a guest. We're pretty much the only gringos, gueros, white guys. Here, I feel as though I am being allowed to visit. I am welcomed, ... Read more >
Tags: chiapas, laguna miramar, ocosingo, zapatistas
Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
wanderings
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Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [477]
If you haven´t checked out my photo galleries, you should do it. The toad will be worth it. Pete and I aren´t the best photo documentarians, and the pictures that we do have we can´t yet upload. We´ll just have to turn the pictures into slides so ... Read more >
Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [512] | Comments [1]
Pete and I had planned on heading south all the way to Chiapas, but after a maldestined couple days in La Manzanilla, a sleepy fishing-turned...surprise... tourist town, we woke up in the morning both quite ready to make a break for the mountains. ... Read more >
Tags: guanajuato, klezmer, shoehorned, spanish school
Saturday, 7 Mar 2009 | Views [750] | Comments [2]
After the otherworldly landscape of the Baja, Pedro and I took an 18 hour ferry ride across the Sea of Cortez to Mazatlan, where we had a two hour break before we took a seven hour bus ride to Puerto Vallarta. Two nights and a day of travel brought ... Read more >
Tags: boobies, humpbacks, snatam kaur, yelapa
Saturday, 7 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
Hammocks, Boobies, and Palapas
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Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 | Views [704] | Comments [1]
Well, I hope everyone took it as a good sign that I haven´t updated my blog for some time now. I never imagined that living this itinerant lifestyle would be so demanding! Every part of the day demands my attention and admiration: in Oaxaca, it was ... Read more >
Tags: baja, cerulean
Friday, 30 Jan 2009 | Views [944] | Comments [4]
I celebrated the warmest birthday of my life on Sunday. For our first weekend off of school, we decided to travel to Benito Juarez, a small pueblo literally on top of a 9000 foot mountain. What a difference four thousand feet make! Large, shady, verdant ... Read more >
Tags: benito juarez, tiraleza
Friday, 30 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
mountains!
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Friday, 30 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
random
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Friday, 23 Jan 2009 | Views [714] | Comments [1]
Classes at Amigos del Sol are wonderful. Four hours a day, the four of us are studying español, talking, learning tenses, and laughing a lot. The school is outside of town and the director, Rogelio, is about the nicest guy on Earth. Our maestros, ... Read more >
Tags: language school, oaxaca
Monday, 19 Jan 2009 | Views [791]
We´ve definitely had some growing pains as we´ve learned how to live like the Oaxaqueños. The day after we found our apartment was a Sunday, and we decided to take a colectivo, a red and white taxi that is invariably an early nineties nissan, to Tlocolula, ... Read more >
Sunday, 18 Jan 2009 | Views [513]
After 25 hours on a single bus, we arrived in Oaxaca at 11 en la noche. The bus, like all first class buses in latin america, inexplicably played a variety of bad, bad American movies, either subtitled or dubbed in Spanish. The second one Ben Stiller ... Read more >
Tags: oaxaca
