Trips
3/30-4/1 – Tenancingo to Mexico City, via volcano. Plus more good food.
In which we are surprised by a bicycle hobo, drive over a volcano, and eat lots of good food in Mexico City.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3/29 – Boing de guayaba in Tenancingo
“Ah yes, we had a pleasant evening eating sweetbreads and Argentine tacos while listening to The Bunny Hop and drinking Boing de guayaba. You?”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Birds of 3/09 Michoacán/Mexico City trip
Birds new to me on the 3/09 Mexico/Michoacán trip
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3/28 – Pátzcuaro to Zitácuaro: forests, pyramids, trout
Saturday, 3/28
We bought breakfast supplies in Pátzcuaro Friday evening, keeping the bag of food cold overnight by the simple expedient of hanging it outside from a nail in the cabin wall. Our final picnic breakfast (I can’t help it, I consider food details crucial) consisted of sandwiches (rolls, deli ham, gouda cheese – outside of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )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 [...]
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