Last Saturday, November 21, I was getting ready to go the airport and leave Coatepec, my home of the past four months. It was an intense time in an amazing place, and I had no idea when I would see it again. As far as towns go, Coatepec is about my favorite ever. It’s a [...]
Last week on November 2, Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, I followed the throngs who were streaming down the street. In Coatepec’s large, old cemetery, hundreds of people were gathering around the gravestones and tombs of their ancestors, whole families bearing flowers and decorations and food to spruce things up. It was a bright, [...]
My friend Noe, getting into the waterfall We saw FIVE huge waterfalls on this hike, each one deeper and higher in the mountain ravines A valley with a tiny farm.. a couple of buildings, a herd of goats, some cows and horses A mind-blowing, wonderful day. I’m still in its spell! This morning I went [...]
I got up and left the house early this morning just to get a glimpse of The Volcano. This massive mountain, Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) looms over Coatepec in the southwest, an 18,491-foot dormant volcano. It’s the highest mountain in Mexico and the 3rd highest in North America. The crazy thing is [...]
This week in Coatepec is the Festival San Jeronimo, a week-long celebration in honor of the town’s patron saint. In English we know him as Jerome, c. 347 – September 30, 420, an early translator of the Christian and Hebrew scriptures. As I write this, fireworks – really big, loud ones – are exploding somewhere [...]
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, [...]