Happy Halloween, biz-nich-izzles! It’s May. It’s spring! It’s time to celebrate Lemuralia! Wut?Is that a kind of lemur party? Well, no, not quite. Before the Catholic Christians messed around with the dates- as they always seemed to do- the month of May was the time when some ancient Europeans would turn their thoughts to lemures or the dead- the …
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La Rumorosa
Before I came down with a cold for my birthday, I took a day trip- no, this was definitely a road trip- out to Mexicali. Why? I hadn’t been there! And I had a chance to go. Simple enough. What I knew about this city was hearsay: the only thing you can do in Mexicali is be …
Teotihuacan
A simple bus ride north of the capital city can be a dangerous thing in Mexico. Not because of bandits, but bad drivers. On the way to our destination, we witnessed a flipped car and a person pinned beneath it- perhaps dead. How did the car flip? We could barely guess. Probable death notwithstanding, we arrived …