Fashion First

Those of us who know Matt have always appreciated his fashion sense... and that´s something I´ve particularly come to love on this trip as he packed three tee-shirts, two of which have the word Elvis printed on them.

This is probably why everyone knows we´re Americans.

Chapulines

So grasshoppers are a standard food item in Oaxaca... Matt claims to like them, I am not such a fan. Anyone else try them? Opinions?

A Breath of Fresh Air

After two weeks in Mexico City and its environs, we were ready to breathe oxygen in our air and see blue sky again. They really aren´t kidding about the smog in Mexico City... it´s intense. We´ve been holed up for the past 4 days in Mazunte on the Oaxaca coast where the weather is hot and so is the ocean. We´ve watched turtles in the act of "copulando," birds flying within arms reach, fish flying through the air and picturesque sunsets.

Modern Romance

Oaxaca state has so many breathtakingly beautiful sights... we took a camioneta (truck) up and around and down a mountain to arrive here at Agua al Hierve, where there are naturally created infinity pools that are filled with spring water.

This couple, perched on the edge of one of the pools, was beautiful. While the father held their baby on his back, the mother angled her cell phone and text messaged.

Districto Federal

I´m having a hard time wrapping my mind around what to say about the incredible spectacle that is Mexico City.

From Lucha Libre to the Ballet Folklorico, from braving the subway to taking canal boats through Xochimilco, from climbing 294 steps to the top of the pyramid of the sun (second largest pyramid in the world) at Teotihuacan, to trying pulque (a very old fashioned drink made of fermented Agave plant and a symbol of peasant Mexico), from eating a fancy dinner overlooking a fresco in a swimming pool that had been installed by Diego Rivera to eating amazing street tacos of Al Pastor with pineapple, to randomly running into friends from San Francisco on a street corner in downtown Mexico City to being lost in a city of 18 million, to the zoo and the national anthropology museum, to learning about the Aztecs and the many different ways you can and should offer the gods human sacrifices... Mexico City defies neat little packaged blog entries. Lets just say that we both really liked Mexico City. A lot.

Trying New Food

We like to think of ourselves as adventurous eaters... so when Matt suggested ordering something that sounded a lot like "little hands of pigs" we thought, ´How bad can it be?´ It turns out that little hands of pigs were the cold, gelled, fatty parts of pigs feet. And some tomatos and orange slices for decoration. Yum.

Take Him Out to the Ball Game

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   We see hundred year old frescos, pyramids built before Christ, murals by Diego Rivera depicting the struggle of workers in Mexico, guilded churches, Buroque architecture, stained glass, painted tile, Volcanos and lakes and oceans and parks, but nothing has made Matt´s face light up more than this headline. Go Sox.