Hotel Casa Cue Oaxaca

I enjoyed a very peaceful day traveling up through the mountains and valleys of western Oaxaca, the state, to Oaxaca the town. From time to time local ladies got on and off, including snack sellers, who rode from one town to the next. Since I was the only tourist, and had brought my own food, they didn't do a very brisk business. I was able to ...

The scenery on the six hour bus journey was truly spectacular, ranging from the concrete jungle of Mexico City through semi-desert plains to the towering mountains of Oaxaca State. The city of Oaxaca offers a refreshing contrast from the grimey metropolis of D.F., with its slower pace of life and colonial streets full of houses painted any colou...

April 5th - April 12th. Donna's Sister, Melody, and her family (the Estes Family) came to visit for the week that was Spring Break at OCS. This was the week leading up to Easter. Melody, Keith, Steven and Rebeka (8th graders?) came to visit family and to see Oaxaca for the first time. Because neither Dave nor Donna had committments at the school...

I haven't updated this in a little while - I also haven't done anything of any significance in a little while. I'm finally recovered from my sickness, and I'll be traveling to Boston in 3 days to visit Gordon College. A reminder - I'm pretty regularly posting pictures up to my flickr. Check that out often if you're interested. However, since my ...

Hello loyal readership. If you ever feel like mailing me something, I recently found out my address: Apdo. 21 Suc. Sta. Rosa Panzacola Oaxaca OAX 68039 Mexico The following is my last 6 days, organized by day. Enjoy! Saturday - I helped the Shavers prepare for a going away party we had at the house. Lots of people showed up to say goodbye to Mik...

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October 24, 2008 We overslept this morning! Neal woke me up at 7:30 a.m. but we did manage to make it to breakfast at 8. We had orange juice, scrambled eggs, toast, and coffee. I think we were both still a little hungry but didn't know how to ask for more. What an incentive for learning a language. I have wanted to figure out how to start a blog...

The ride to Oaxaca was uneventful, and we decided to go cheap and bedded down in a somewhat skanky hostel. The first evening we overheard some English in our little restaurant, and thereby met a group of premed students from UC Davis who were doing a standard semester in town to take some courses and learn about Mexican health care as a contrast...

Hello everyone! I don't have internet at my house anymore and it is such a pain to take my laptop to the internet café so I haven't been posting lately but I'm going to catch everyone up on my week. On Wednesday I finally went and saw Sex and the City movie! It was so good! After that I met up with Rhonda to have dinner since she was leaving Fr...

Last night I slept ok, I just kept waking up a lot during the night. Breakfast was at nine so I had to get up at eight to be ready. I drank some airborne though before I ate and it really upset my stomach. Anyway we had plums, potatoes, beans, and tomatoes. It was all very good. Afterward me, Kara and Kevari went to Santa Domingo Church. It's a ...