Posted in Mexico on Feb 5th, 2008
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In the Sierra Madre
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The Sierra Madre makes us work hard to cross them. Mescal distillers, steep roads, and mysterious mountain towns. (Map this!)
“Si Senor, this road is very good!”, said the bicyclist about the shortcut to Juquila. Our ten year old map did not show any road at all, but here was a beautiful road going exactly where we wanted and would shave off over four and a half hours of tough Mexican mountain driving. The road wound into the Sierra Madre, where one doesn’t need no stinkin’ badges. A steep grade kept me shifting between second and third on a roadbed without exhaust belching trucks and an absence of the dreaded speed bumps or ‘topes’ as they are called in Spanish
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Posted in Food, Mexico on Feb 3rd, 2008
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Fish stall
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The changes in food from coastline to the interior. From barbacoa de chivo to enchilada con mole negro.
“Where in Mexico can I find food as in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’?” I asked our Mexican waitress in ‘Mochica’, a Peruvian restaurant in San Francisco. “Puebla” she answered unhesitatingly. Since we entered Mexico, I have been searching vainly for that wonderfully complex, rich food.
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Posted in Mexico on Jan 31st, 2008
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Sunset Rock
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After the frigid north the weather becomes amenable to camping. Adventures thereof.
Camping is a win-win situation for me because you get to stay in beautiful places for little or no cost. It hearkens back to our primitive nomadic roots where a simple shelter, warm fire, and star-studded sky were more than sufficient to spend a night. Most of my days I am divorced from the outdoors where the schedule is ruled by the cycles of nature, that of the sunrise and sunset, that of the tides and the moon. Spending a night outdoors reminds me that finally everything is ruled by nature and its immutable laws.
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Posted in Mexico on Jan 27th, 2008
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Around catavina
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Incredible beauty attracts incredible wealth…Mexican culture is shadowed by rich US invetsors.
“To see Baja properly you need to camp on the beaches”. Shreesh said this while driving through the beautiful and desolate desert scenery of Baja. I have to agree. Although Mexico Highway 1 is beautifully maintained and the most dangerous things we met were cows on the road, it does not hug the coastline like US highway 1 does. You do catch tantalizing glimpses of the coastline through desert scrubland and cactii reaching up towards the blue skies. And you do occasionally touch towns like Loreto nestled on the shores of teh Pacific with amazing coastal scenery.
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Posted in Mexico, Picture of the Day on Jan 24th, 2008
After the elk…the palm trees of San Jose del Cabo attack our poor car. (Map this!)
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