Last hurrah in Mexico

As promised, the city of San Cristobal has lived up to its reputation as a charming, friendly colonial town that (most importantly!) has a mild climate. When we arrived by bus, we found a hotel and then immediately proceded to put on jackets and pants. Our hotel was thankfully willing to let us leave our […]

Welcome to the Jungle

I’ve been waiting to bust out that title for a while now….that felt good! I’m doing my Axl Rose serpentine right now as I’m typing…
I’ll expand a little bit on what Cindy wrote earlier about the heat. The guidebooks will tell you that weather down here (in Central America) is less dependent on latitude and […]

Coffee in Chiapas

I was just cruising the NY Times and found this article, which I thought I’d pass on:
Certifying Coffee Aids Farmers and Forests in Chiapas
Good to hear that some of those little labels you look for when you buy coffee in Seattle are actually helping people. Well, at least until the bigger farms get on the […]

Kitty update

I’m sure everybody has been dying to know, where are the pictures of the cat?!? Well, Sera has been getting used to her new surroundings at our friend Danielle’s place near Tacoma. She had a little bout of sickness back in the beginning of March, but pulled through thanks to the excellent bedside manner of […]

Who is an American?

Following the example of other countries and continents, an American should be a person from the American continents. Peruvians, Canadians, Mexicans and Argentinians should all be considered Americans as well those from the US. (Just as Spaniards, Germans and Italians are considered European.) It’s not something people from the US think about too much, since […]

Oaxaca Part II

When we left the US we weren’t sure if we should go to Oaxaca or not due to the political unrest of the past year, where a teachers strike and protest for the removal of the Governer of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, led to Vincente Fox sending federal troops into the city. As often happens, the […]

Oaxaca Part I

As I sit in the hotel room and write, Matt is taking the bus back to our last hotel where we hope our tent poles and stakes are waiting for him. This extra “rest” day is not completely unwelcome; we have descended from the mountains and are finding the heat and humidity of the low […]

Some movies

I couldn’t figure out how to get the movies loaded into the photo gallery, so I uploaded them to our youtube.com account (username: ephemerica).
Spring parade in Patzcuaro

Monarchs in flight

P.S. OK, figured out how to embed the movies, but they don’t work correctly on the PC at the internet cafe I’m at. Can anybody confirm they […]

Blog updates

Just a little note to let everybody know that we’ve added more photos to the gallery, and the GPS section is up to date. I haven’t been able to post the movies that we’ve taken with the camera, because they are too big, but I’ll keep trying to fix that…

Riding on the Metro

We’ve been in Mexico City for about a week now, and it is about as crazy as you would expect a city of over 25 million people to be. First, how we got here. We were whisked to a bus stop in Toluca by Moises’ dad, and within seconds of arriving, our bikes were thrown […]