Just a few random photos from a walk in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico. Fruit vendor and street View from a bridge overlooking one of the deep river gorges that bisect Coatepec. Standing there you can hear the roar of water below. Typical playful Mexican architecture and paint job. It’s not so amazing in an of itself, [...]
I just picked up a package at the local post office, books from Amazon.com in the U.S.A. It’s not even all that expensive to ship them here – about $10 for a stack of them – and only took about two weeks. It was a little adventure actually getting my hands on them, though. First, [...]
Not too many things make me laugh until there are tears running down my face, but this did, so I’m sharing it here. Joe Cocker is awesome, but this video is also very, very funny!
Today I visited Ashram Coatepec, just a few blocks from the center of town. On its website, the ashram is described as: “a Center of Human Development and Environmental Education and Transcendental belonging to the International Network on Cultural Non-Governmental Organizations, Great Universal Brotherhood.” Their website is a bit hard to use, and I actually [...]
This past weekend I went with my neighbor Nilda to Teocelo, a little town in the mountains a few miles from Coatepec. At the home of Nilda’s friends, a big extended family, three or four generations, many of whom are lifelong residents of Teocelo, we had a lovely meal of chicken mole, black corn tamales, [...]
I know everybody is expecting only pretty stuff about Mexico here, but this blog is also about how I’m managing to live here – namely, by working as a virtualista (a person who works strictly by Internet and phone). One of the things I do in my business is web design and development, and I [...]
Three VW Bugs and a Volcano, taken yesterday on Calle Cuauhtemoc. Please note that there’s a green hill fairly close by which is a volcanic mountain, but I’m talking about the massive, snow-capped volcano in the distance. It looks huge and close when you’re standing on the street.