In Mexico, sometimes we foreigners are the entertainment
Often, after visitors have been here a short time, I hear them comment on how kind and accepting the Mexicans in the villages along the shores of Lake Chapala are to of the foreigners who have invaded ...
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Xico: A village of enchantment in Veracruz
Founded in the year 1313, Xico’s original name was Xico-Chimalco in the Náhuatl (Aztec) language meaning "where there are bee hives of yellow wax." Located only 20 minutes from Xalapa, Veracr...
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A visit to Tlaquepaque and Guadalajara
Last month, a friend and I decided to spend a couple of days in Tlaquepaque at La Villa del Ensueño. We arrived about 2 p.m. It was even more charming than the photographs on the site. The owner greet...
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Guanajuato
This past weekend was really great. Mary woke me up Saturday morning at the crack of 9:30. We were on the road by 10:30 heading toward a town named Guanajuato (pronounced Gwana-wat-o, it’s spelled ju...
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Pot Squirrel
Lea didn’t like Mexico the way Mary and I did. She expressed a desire to return to the US early, to go back to living with her mother, so I bought her an airline ticket. But in a last effort at openi...
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Poking around the pueblos of Oaxaca: Vista Hermosa
Morning clouds hover lazily over the city as we finish our coffee in a zocalo cafe in Oaxaca. It’s as if the clouds, like my friend and I, aren’t in any hurry to move on. As we saunter the several ...
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Cohetes, a Mexican tradition
Early one morning in late July, after being awakened by the infernal POP POP POP of today’s Mexican alarm clock, I arose reluctantly from the warmth of my bed, determined to find the true story of ...
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Guadalajara street scene
Right behind Hospicio Cabañas, at the south-east corner of that building, you abruptly run into a rabbit warren of narrow streets, dilapidated adobe buildings, lots of old cars and poorly dress...
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Midnight on the Isthmus: Returning home to Chiapas from Oaxaca
After an exciting week visiting a close friend, meeting new ones, and immersing myself fully in the rich cultural experience that is Oaxaca, I was headed home to celebrate Christmas with my family and ...
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A village street party in Mexico
Last week my good friend celebrated her sixtieth birthday with a once-in-a lifetime street party near Six Corners in the Village of Ajijic. Linda moved here four years ago after a thirty-four year care...
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A Man And His Goat
At the end of our two-month test of living in Guadalajara, Mary and I packed up my car for the drive back to Wisconsin.
We left Guadalajara early one Saturday morning driving north on highway 54. T...
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Michoacan, Guanajuato, and crafting dolls
Are you curious about the title? I thought I'd share my last month with you. Two of my lifetime friends came down for a visit. They stayed ten days and we took a four-day whirlwind tour through Patzcua...
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Vistas de Copoya, Chiapas
The day starts early here in Copoya. Hours before a bright pink sun rises over the eastern mountain, the roosters, pigs, and braying burros compete noisily with horn blowing little colect...
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It's a bargain in Mexico!
Juan Mata Ortíz is a small village of potters, farmers and cowboys in Northern Chihuahua. About 30 years ago, an unschooled artistic genius, Juan Quezada, taught himself how to make ollas, eart...
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From Baja to the Mexican mainland by ferry
Last night I met Karen Greenbury in person. I first met her on the Internet after she quit her secretarial job in Alberta, Canada and was preparing to take a one-year sabbatical in Mexico. Karen is for...
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Huatulco: an undiscovered paradise
I just returned from four days in Huatulco, located along the coast of Oaxaca at the end of the Southern Sierra Madre mountains. The area's nine bays and twenty-three beaches stretch 35 kilometers alon...
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Internet services and cyber cafes in Oaxaca
Internet Service Providers are readily available. All services support modems to 56k baud. Here are five:
Antequera Red, at Colegio Militar #1009, 3rd floor (across from Gigante Reforma) is an unaff...
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Lucky thing: Two Mexican couples
Thirty minutes away from the Guadalajara airport, but seemingly hundreds of years distant in time, in Lake Chapala sits the island of Mezcala whose ruins date from the early 19th century. The cobbled r...
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The traditional Maya sweatlodge in Chiapas: Temazcal and Xun
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, where I chose to live five years ago, is a city time almost forgot. Situated in the highland valley of Jovel at an elevation of 2,100 meters, it's a city mingling f...
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Mother's Day in Mata Ortiz
Juan Mata Ortíz is a small village of potters, farmers and cowboys in Northern Chihuahua. About 30 years ago, an unschooled artistic genius, Juan Quezada, taught himself how to make ollas, eart...
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Mexico: a visit to Sayula, Zapotlanejo and Zapopan
Sayula
After having read an article in the local Guadalajara Reporter by a man who retired in Sayula, some friends and I decided to check it out. It's a nice-sized town with a population of about 200,...
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Mexico Living & Travel
Mexico Living and Travel © 1994 by Jean and John D. Bryant, Mexico
Retirement and Travel Assistance, P.O. Box 2190-23, Pahrump, NV 89041-2190.
ISBN 1-878061-01-1. $29.95
The Bryants are veteran ...
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Mexican handcraft exposition and trade fair
Yesterday, for the second time in three years, I attended ENART at The Central Culturo El Refugio in Tlaquepaque. What a treat. Over one hundred and thirty exhibits by Mexican artisans from around the ...
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From a man's perspective
This is an e-mail I received from Steve in Montana. He's given me permission to share it with you and I hope it will touch you in the same way it has me:
Dear Blue,
I have just concluded a wonderful ...
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Mexico's Christmas posadas, pastorelas and nacimientos
Las Posadas are fiestas that begin on the 16th and end on the 24th of December. In Mexico, during this period, there are many Posadas every evening.
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