Archive for March, 2009
3/27 – Pátzcuaro, Ihuatzio, Janitzio (yácatas, water, hot yams)
Friday, March 27
Lake Pátzcuaro is roughly the shape of an uppercase L (with serifs). Inside the angle of the L is a peninsula featuring a significant volcanic hill and the ancient Purépecha capital of Ihuatzio, now dwindled to a village of cracked adobe whose signal features are 1) a life sized (and therefore not very [...]
March 25 & 26: Pátzcuaro & Tzintzuntzan
Wednesday, March 25
On Wednesday we left Morelia and made the pretty drive through hills and small farms to Lake Pátzcuaro, where I had last been in 1982. The fish-filled lake and its surrounding volcanic hills were once the heart of the Purépecha empire, and today people still live in two of their three main towns, [...]
Morelia: knees, chandeliers, mangos & the internet
Sunday, March 22
We arrived Sunday night in monumental Morelia, the capital of Michoacán. The Spanish originally named it Valladolid, after a favorite Spanish town; following Mexican independence it was renamed for the beloved general Morelos. In 2009 the city of nearly a million sprawls to fill its broad valley, the grand colonial center ringed by [...]
Tlalpujahua 3 – silver mines
Saturday, March 21, 2009
I started the day bravely with a shower in the orange plastic terrarium, enjoying several intermittent moments of warmish water and a thorough awakening.
By now we were regulars for breakfast in the Tlalpujahua market. Many dishes were brewing, bubbling away redly in ceramic pots the size of saucer sleds set over charcoal [...]
Tlalpujahua 2 – a preposterous church and some high-altitude monarchs
A startling confection of a church, and some mountainous monarch butterflies.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tlalpujahua – preschool butterflies & a multitude of pegs
3/19/09
On Thursday L vanished into the airport’s maw and Dad and I drove west out of town in a rental car. We escaped the tangle of Mexico City in the late morning with unparalleled ease and without once going the wrong way down a one-way street. It took a couple hours and most of the [...]
Bits and snippets from a domestic day in Mexico City
Hello my various dears,
Last night after I arrived we stayed up late with dinner guests Ilán (a friend met in the States), Ilán’s bubbly doctor girlfriend Francisca, and the across-the-hall neighbor Rafa. We ate scrumptious pozole, talking about all the wierd insects people had eaten and what books Rafa should read to his kids. I [...]
safely arrived in DF
Hello my dears! All went well with all aspects of travel (discounting having to get up at 4:15) and I am safely arrived at J’s amazing penthouse apartment in Mexico City. I did a little yoga to unkink my neck and now we expect dinner guests in just a few minutes.
It is warm enough here [...]
