Hell’s Half Acre

We’ve been talking about the Death Penalty, Texas vs. California legal system, 3-strikes, Mayan curses and kharma for hours. I’ve had a 48 hour fever and Pike had the same but it only lasted 24 hours. No other symptoms other than wicked aches and headache. Pike seems to have recovered well but [...]

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Yesterday we drove to Guanajuato. Today I hope to purchase a new vehicle insurance policy because there is absolutely NO WAY we can leave this area. Due to the way that we drove through the mainland, Morelia “feels” so far away but is actually within a short day’s drive from here. It [...]

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You know how some words in another language work so much better than your own? Right now I’m stuck on “intregar”. I don’t know the translation but I know how I use it and I know how it is used. It means something like “give over” or “hand in” or something. [...]

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We had a very easy time driving from San Juan Teotihuacan to Querétaro. The road was well signed and we didn’t get lost once. Imagine!! The scenery was simply amazing. Ribbons of green and spring green and brown on the bottom and grey and grey-blue mountains with overcast sky. Yellows [...]

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The DF bypass from Puebla takes you to just about the top of the world. I thought we were high up in Cholula/Puebla, but leaving town (and don’t ask me why it took us FIFTY minutes to find the road we needed - the signs and maps here in Mexico are really lacking - [...]

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The kids absolutely, positively LOVED the balneario. There was a gigantic tobaggon which swooped down from dizzying heights to a large bowl the eventually dumped you out into a small pool. The boys found this “slide” to be the best of Mexico. The people there are incredibly nice also and the kids [...]

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That could be spelled wrong. We made an epic journey from Villahermosa to Puebla in ONE DAY. It was nine very long hours of driving, but the driving was too easy for words; the cuota and over roads we’d already travelled making it an easy trip to the campground. Left Cholula this [...]

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Jamie had quite a scare yesterday. After coming home in the late afternoon, we found that the electricity was out. No electricity means no A/C. Jamie about had a heart attack. He was desconsolate and while we opened windows to take advantage of the terrific breeze blowing off the Gulf, he [...]

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I have been instructed to lie down by Doctor Ellen, so here I type, prone on my bed, with a cloth wipe on my leg. Whenever Ellen finds one of the mosquito bites I’ve scratched into oblivion, she ministers to me by covering the offending wound with a wipe and reading to me. [...]

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Today the boys and I spent the day at the ruins of Edzna. We stopped at a tiny town on the way home and got online to post that which we have here. I’ll update more later and post pictures for the other posts, but the Internet connection is so excruciatingly slow [...]

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