Sniper teams
So the sniper teams gave it away. Sniper teams for an opera? Even Carmen? we got to the free seats 2 hours before the show and sat in the sun waiting, all kinds of people, campasinos, city slickers, lots of family's and picnics, kids making out and flirting, the seating area got more and more packed and the people watching better and better. We kept noticing lots of guys with those clear coils going up behind the ear then we noticed the sniper team on the roof across the plaza and realized that the security had to be for something other than an opera... It was the Cervantino festivals opening night, so who else but President Fox who is from Guanajuato should pull up in a motorcade and walk to the podium and give the opening speech? The opera was wonderful, a cast of at least 60, the Mexican national opera company. We walked home with the crowd, everywhere we could here people humming snatches of arias...
Today we heard the main cathedral bells ring and went to investigate. As we reached the main plaza trumpets sounded from the roof of the cathedral and then the bells answered, back and forth, what a crazy ensemble, cathedral and trumpets...
posted by Darby Watson @ 4:36 PM
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After studying the "obvious" about replying, we will see if this transcends the ether. I of so little faith? I hope you know the joy we look back on our acquaintance, as "enjoying meeting you" so trivializes. Letting go of this, I include the following. The volcano access via a Telmex road inside the volcano? Look on the autopista Guadalajara to Tepic. Closer to Tepic you will see the town of Jala. Drive in there (only way to go is north off the autopista) past the Pemex, and at the "T" take a left and on through town, about three dozen blocks tending towards the left. At the western town limits you will run into sugar cane fields with roads leading forth. You want the only, only one that is cobbled. Do not take one that is not cobbled as is typical volcanic ash you don't need to experience. Ask for the road to the "microndas" (microwave towers). If it is cobbled you are on the right road, which will lead you west, then on a bridge back across the autopista, and on a little used cobble road in good condition which leads one perhaps twenty clicks up, around, and into the crater of a volcano full of pines with fumaroles, then onto the microndas and the malpaise ( it is the Hawaiian's rough lava flow). Lovely place to camp anywhere, safe, with spellbinding vistas, and with luck deer and maybe even an pterodactyl? For me, for us, this is one of those magic places, but then we have many.
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I am somewhat disappointed as some of the great ones to my opinion are gone, and there are other cookbooks out there. The first, "Mexico, A Higher Vision" is a compendium of aerial photos of Mexico which after ten years still can stun me. Two books no longer on the list that I think just stupendous are, "There's a Word for It in Mexico" by Boye Lafeyette De Mente, which follows the root source of common Mexican words and how they came to be. This was highly important in my curiosity as an ethnographer here. The second is "The Mexico Reader", Duke University Press, editors Joseph and Henderson. This book can change your whole vision of Mexico and possibly the dynamics of human existence. ISBN 0-8223-3042-3.
May your days be full of blessings and enough incidences to keep you humble, which seem to come along no matter. Very, very warmest regards. Mark Dunn; Zacatecas, Zac.
After studying the "obvious" about replying, we will see if this transcends the ether. I of so little faith? I hope you know the joy we look back on our acquaintance, as "enjoying meeting you" so trivializes. Letting go of this, I include the following. The volcano access via a Telmex road inside the volcano? Look on the autopista Guadalajara to Tepic. Closer to Tepic you will see the town of Jala. Drive in there (only way to go is north off the autopista) past the Pemex, and at the "T" take a left and on through town, about three dozen blocks tending towards the left. At the western town limits you will run into sugar cane fields with roads leading forth. You want the only, only one that is cobbled. Do not take one that is not cobbled as is typical volcanic ash you don't need to experience. Ask for the road to the "microndas" (microwave towers). If it is cobbled you are on the right road, which will lead you west, then on a bridge back across the autopista, and on a little used cobble road in good condition which leads one perhaps twenty clicks up, around, and into the crater of a volcano full of pines with fumaroles, then onto the microndas and the malpaise ( it is the Hawaiian's rough lava flow). Lovely place to camp anywhere, safe, with spellbinding vistas, and with luck deer and maybe even an pterodactyl? For me, for us, this is one of those magic places, but then we have many.
The Amazon listmainia is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3VBB3YJ21UST/ref=sr_5_1/102-3997732-2473724?ie=UTF8&qid=1062041711
I am somewhat disappointed as some of the great ones to my opinion are gone, and there are other cookbooks out there. The first, "Mexico, A Higher Vision" is a compendium of aerial photos of Mexico which after ten years still can stun me. Two books no longer on the list that I think just stupendous are, "There's a Word for It in Mexico" by Boye Lafeyette De Mente, which follows the root source of common Mexican words and how they came to be. This was highly important in my curiosity as an ethnographer here. The second is "The Mexico Reader", Duke University Press, editors Joseph and Henderson. This book can change your whole vision of Mexico and possibly the dynamics of human existence. ISBN 0-8223-3042-3.
May your days be full of blessings and enough incidences to keep you humble, which seem to come along no matter. Very, very warmest regards. Mark Dunn; Zacatecas, Zac.
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