Hound Dog
Nov 13, 2010, 9:04 AM
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Re: [Hound Dog] Back Among the Mountains of Oz
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In my shameless ode to Chiapas; a place I consider to be that place on the planet where it was intended that I live out my days, I left out an equally shameless paean to the often overlooked and unsung tierra caliente on the Pacific south and west of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas which I will define as that region between the Oaxaca state border and the border with Guatemala just beyond Tapachula. The Sierra Madre rise dramatically within a few kilometers of the virtually uninhabited coast defined mostly by small, primitive towns of fishermen and dotted with countless esteros and lagoons and what we in Alabama would call bayous - largely deserted, often known for mysterious mangrove swamps and, I swear to God, I have spotted the Creature from the Black Lagoon thereabouts after a bout with Herradura Blanco. Go to the cheesy but inviting beach town of Puerto Arista during the week when the place is deserted and marvel at the expansive grey beaches that you will have all to yourself and then, if you have the gumption and the time, explore the countless isolated villages centered on lagoons or on the Pacific itself and, then, if you are driving down from Tonalį to Tapachula on Highway 200, you will be rewarded not only with the old town of Escuintla with its large colony of Chinese but the city of Tapachula which is reminiscent, more than anything else, of Tallulah Bankhead in her latter years and then you can drive up the slopes of the Tacanį Volcano to the cool zone for a pleasant night“s sleep from the small town of Cacahoatan but don“t drink the water.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Nov 13, 2010, 9:07 AM)
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