Mirador
Feb 5, 2014, 7:58 PM
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Re: [Rolly] Introduce Yourself -- Part 3
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I miss Rolly! I thought Rolly a grand fellow. We only chatted once or twice online when I asked him about graffiti in Mexico. Some of the graffiti is glorious, spreading over walls like mysterious messages left in the night by the spirits of dead gods.
Unlike most of you, I do not live in far-flung places nor have traveled the world. I have been out of the United States only twice, and only one of those times really counts. I crossed over to Canada from Minnesota for five minutes when I was ten years old, long enough to acquire a small red and white flag with a maple leaf on it. It was more like tagging First Base than actually going anywhere.
Mexico counts. I was member of a high school Spanish class from Tennessee, who dropped down from Texas like a bunch of teenage tarantulas, landed briefly on Montemorelos, then hurtled on down to torment Mexico City. Our faculty chaperones were so traumatized that our school never again took students out of the country. We were that bad.
Since then, life has not offered me the opportunity to travel, but recently I discovered Google Maps. The 3D streetview feature has allowed freedom at last to wander all over the world. In some ways it beats going in person. I can gaze as long as I want to at whatever fascinates me without someone wondering why I've stood for two hours in front of their house.
But no matter where I "travel," I always return to Mexico.
And that's why I'm here. I see things in my 3D wanderings that I have questions about, and nobody to ask. Most of the info I find online about Mexico is geared toward gringos with money who want to live the gringo life in Mexico. I am not a gringo with money, and even if I was, that is not what interests me. I'm interested in Mexico from the inside out, not from the outside in. Some of you sound like you know it from the inside out, so maybe you can tolerate a virtual traveler in your midst, asking strange questions.
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