Plaza Diana Hotel Guadalajara

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... twice more to make it 4-1 before it was even half time! Chivas' third goal came from a rare indirect free kick inside the penalty area, after dangerous play from an Atlas defender. I managed to capture the goal along with the ensuing celebrations on video, which partly conveys a sense of the incredible atmosphere inside the stadium.<br><br>Inevitably the second half failed to live up to the opening onslaught; it was ...

... in the next blog post, once I collect all the fantastic picture people took last weekend. <br> Meanwhile, I´m going to share an aspect of Guadalajara that I´m particularly enamoured with: street life. Unlike back home, streets here are more than just a conveyance from one place to another. They house a vibrant informal economy, peddlers of everything from windshield wipers, 30 ...

... light in time to identify my assailant as a fair sized cockroach! However, by the time I grabbed a shoe to batter it with, the ****er had disappeared beneath my wardrobe.<br><br>I have since become somewhat paranoid. Where will it crawl next time I sleep? Not my face? Or will I awake to find a scorpion in my bed or a tarantula spinning its web around me? Tonight I'll be applying plenty of insect repellent before bed and sleeping with a loaded gun beneath the pillow...

... last Friday...a amicable curmudgeon who keeps a little smile tucked into the corner of her mouth when she shoes Mau away (he likes to play with his mini tennis racket and ball on the dining room table) or snorts skeptically at a newscaster on the TV. I´m not sure how, but we manage to communicate pretty well even though she speaks no english. We´ve talked about politics a bit (she´s pretty liberal), her past carreer as a seamstress, and especially ...

... performers who hid their faces with masks and wore crazy outfits performing tricks which looked like they were beating the hell out of each other, they were brilliant. The best part was when one man would be on the ground outside the ring and the other would dive off the ropes and fly kick them into the audience. I lie, that was not the best part, that was the best of the wrestling but highlight of the event was the crowd itself. It was the rowdiest, crassest ...

... made a solo trek up a pyramid and spent some time being contemplative. Also went to the Basilica de Guadalupe, a holy place for Mexican Catholics (and also, though less frequently acknowledged, descendents of the Aztecs). The place has a really interesting story behind it involving a now-saint named Juan Diego. (I won't get into it here but is worth some research, or an in-person retelling come November.) In December of each year ...

... more drinking and dancing! Today we had a big breakfast for Ligia's birthday and now its preparing for Christmas, apparantly tomorrow we will go to Taxco... I'm re-organising the next part of my trip.... I've decided to go back to Guadalajara as I liked it so much, then back to DF and down to Puerto Escondido and up through Oaxaca... so not altering much... I spent the other day helping to decorate, I did the tree. Photos when night falls and I get some good ones. Adios!

... 5 in the back (keep in mind we´re all adults) -- plus his team flag and a sign he made. As we´re driving to the game, Juan comments "if by chance we get stopped by a traffic cop, we can just give them 50 pesos" (about 5 bucks)... We get to the game and park. He takes us to a little bodega where they have giant beers (like the size of a 40 in the states) for 16 pesos -- he has season tickets so he obviously know the neighborhood ...

... has been excavated. It runs about 3 km long and is lined by the remains of dozens and dozens of pyramids. No pyramid-top temples have been preserved; some of the pyramids have been restored, some are in ruins, and some are just grassy hills. The area is flat, dry and shadeless, with mountains ringing the horizon, and the sun spanking down with no mercy. The most impressive buildings are the pyramid of the Sun and Moon. The pyramid of the Sun, which apparently isn't a ...