Hotel Posada del Centro Oaxaca

... Escondido without too much embarrassment - high fives all around as we walked out of the station (it´s the simple things like making yourselves understood in a foreign country!) <br><br>We met a Dutch couple when we were out for dinner (dry toast for me, yum). Really nice people. Robert and Karen. Turns out Karen was only out of bed, she´d come down with a bad belly too and had been in bed ...

... by a scrawny young Mexican guy, who led us down the hill and dropped us off at a gas station where we were instructed to hop into an imposing looking black SUV. <br><br>The driver was Oaxacan. The backseat was a mother-daughter couple of Mexican women from a different state. They seemed to be well-traveled, and the mother (though she didn&#8217;t speak any English) used the daughter to translate that she owns a travel agency and is trying to personally decide which ...

... pink curtains...perhaps also a shelf and a small rug... i wish they´d let me paint the wall... haven´t asked but im pretty sure they wont let me.. but i have plenty of green wall speace to cover it with pics.. i´ll head on the streets again...the desire of having mango hasn´t really given up...trying to swing myself through the crowd... 17/04/09 the pink curtains and life without a bed=matress has been ending the every single day with a question mark ...

... to call back in 5 min but I ran out of minutes so I went to go get more and I ran out of gas. I about lost my mind today. It makes me appreciate America so much. In the US, people just say "I don't know where it's at", here people just make stuff up. I was told that people did that but this was definite proof. I will be here 2 weeks so hopefully I will learn something.

... had a huge political uprising in which the town was upset with the government / governor and graffitied the entire town, with political messages. This artist happened to be one of the head graffiti artists at that time. They spent 4 hours doing graffiti on the wall and then Jen was able to get the artist to draw a skull with butterfly wings and tattooed it to her stomach area. Unfortunatley he was pushing too ***********ly did the outline of the tattoo. She was ...

... involves field trips to Oaxaca´s street of chocolate shops to see how cacao is processed into chocolate, complete with samples. (In all seriousness, Mexico really is helping me find some closure in regards to Tanzania. So many areas of my life feel like they have finally been un-paused, after nearly 2 years of stuckness. It´s wonderful and healthy just to be able to say really simple stuff like "this is ...

... ole, really loud, hot, and crowded, not my kind of place. This morning I accidentally woke up late for breakfast but it was ok since I was the only one eating this morning. We had a great breakfast! She made me a fried egg, I think, it was like a sunny side up egg but the yolk wasn't runny it was like a yolk after you hard boil an egg. I have never had an egg like that and I love it! Also we had beans and bacon ...

... We appreciate our mothers trying to preserve our reputation to our grandparents, but because we know you guys (grandma and grandpa) are cool and love us, we are certain that you will forgive us for having one or two tequilas too many. We are, after all, in Mexico. That said, rest assured that we are actually behaving, and in the words of my mom, minding our p´s and q´s. Alright, I´m quitting now. Wolfe says howdy, and doesn´t have anything to add. Facher out.

... who will be standing in an abandoned Sydney in two-thousand years? London? New York? The centres of the modern world? What would a Zapotec (or, for that matter, an Inca or Celt), staring at the modern world think of what has become of what they once knew? Such incomprehensible concepts that push the borders of imagination tend to make me stop and ponder ... Spending a whole day surrounded by the remains of an ancient culture I still found it quite ...