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They said to do pasta, so that's what I did. ;)
And HOT DAMN I am almost to DAY 300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woot!
PS A wonderful update on my Grandma is here!
Served inside a Mechanics Repair Garage-
converted to sell TACOS
by a Mexican hairdresser and her entire FAMILY
to the customers that come out for
a FLEA MARKET on Division Street......
Es Muy-Rico!
Taken with 3 filters (polarizer, graduated ND, and 8xND) to try and reduce the light and increase the exposure time. No need for HDR!!!!!!!!
I love Mexico!
North America complete! I’ve reached the Mexico-Guatemala border in Talisman, Chiapas. My Pan-American Trek using Google Street View starting from Deadhorse, Alaska in August 2013 has taken my 11,160 km (6700 mi). I’ve learned and enjoyed so much, and I’m over half-way to the end destination of Ushuaia, Argentina. From here, since there’s no Google Street View in Central America, I’ll be taking a virtual plane to Cartagena, Colombia when I resume my trek in South America.
I love Mexico! Here are some of the insights gleaned from my trek through Mexico:
1. Mexico north to south: (1) industrial and rapid urban growth, (2) mountainous and sparse, (3) Hildago-Mexico City urban explosion, (4) wild south, (5) tropics. The further south you go, cars give way to increasing amounts of motorbikes, bikes, horses and mules, pulled carriages, and walking.
2. Mexico seems to have less of an east-west culture difference than U.S., probably because it is much narrower and was populated more uniformly. Conversely, Mexico’s northern (Tamaulipas) and southern (Chiapas) states seem much more different from one another than the difference between their U.S. counterparts (Montana and Texas).
3. Mexican architecture betrays waves of intense Spanish colonization.
4. Mexican towns are planned around the main Catholic Church and town square with its administrative buildings. In Oaxaca, the churches of the same design are interspersed throughout the countryside where few live, looking like they have been deployed militarily. In Puebla, churches in the different towns are variable in color and form, looking like the towns were competing with one another for the coolest church.
5. Mexican towns have almost no trees.
6. Mexico City is mega-everything, and exemplifies the world-wide challenge of rapid urbanization.
7. It would be easy to hide in Oaxaca.
8. The Museum at Oaxaca’s Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude – there are no pictures online of it except a shot of the fountain. The shots I got of the religious banners stunned me. It was like I was meant to find them and show them to everyone.
9. South Oaxaca and Chiapas – where did the churches go? You seem some here and there, but they’re semi-modern and not centrally placed or large. It was odd to go from a landscape where the main church was visible almost anywhere in the town to having a hard time finding it.
10. Chiapas is a different world from the rest of Mexico, you can sense it’s a border state. It is much more tropical in plant and houses, including lots of use of huts with grass roofs. Some of the houses have a Roman/Greek feeling to them, especially in the southern part of the state, Online sources indicate this may be art deco, as the coffee barons got rich in the 1920’s and built up the towns’ major buildings and monuments in an art deco style.
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Norteamérica completa! He llegado a la frontera México-Guatemala en Talismán, Chiapas. Mi Panamericana Trek a través de Google Street View a partir de Deadhorse, Alaska en agosto 2013 ha llevado a mi 11.160 kilometros (6.700 millas). He aprendido y disfrutado mucho, y yo estoy por encima de la mitad del camino hacia el destino final de Ushuaia, Argentina. A partir de aquí, ya que no hay Google Street View en América Central, voy a estar tomando un plano virtual a Cartagena, Colombia cuando reanudo mi caminata en América del Sur.
Me encanta México! Éstos son algunos de los conocimientos obtenidos de mi viaje a través de México:
1. México de norte a sur: (1) el crecimiento industrial y urbano rápido, (2) montañosa y escaso, (3) Hidalgo-México City explosión urbana, (4) al sur salvaje, (5) trópicos. El sur vayas, coches dan paso a cantidades crecientes de motos, bicicletas, caballos y mulas, carros tirado, y caminar.
2. México parece tener menos de una diferencia de cultura Este-Oeste de los Estados Unidos, probablemente debido a que es mucho más estrecho y estaba poblada de manera más uniforme. Por el contrario, en México del norte (Tamaulipas) y (Chiapas) estados del sur parecen mucho más diferentes entre sí que la diferencia entre sus contrapartes estadounidenses (Montana y Texas).
3. Arquitectura mexicana traiciona olas de intensa colonización española.
4. Se planifican las ciudades mexicanas en torno a la principal plaza de la ciudad y la Iglesia Católica, con sus edificios administrativos. En Oaxaca, las iglesias del mismo diseño se intercalan a lo largo del campo, donde pocos viven, pareciendo que se han desplegado militarmente. En Puebla, las iglesias en las diferentes ciudades son variables en color y la forma, el aspecto de las ciudades competían entre sí por la iglesia más fresco.
5. Pueblos mexicanos casi no tienen árboles.
6. Ciudad de México es mega-todo, y ejemplifica el reto mundial de la rápida urbanización.
7. Sería fácil de ocultar en Oaxaca.
8. El Museo de la Basílica de Oaxaca de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad - no hay fotografías en línea de ella, sino una toma de la fuente. Los disparos que recibí de los estandartes religiosos me sorprendieron. Era como que estaba destinado a encontrar ellos y mostrarles a todos.
9. Sur de Oaxaca y Chiapas - ¿de dónde van las iglesias? Pareces un poco de aquí y allá, pero son semi-moderno y no colocado en posición central o grande. Era extraño para ir de un paisaje donde la iglesia principal era visible en casi cualquier lugar en la ciudad para tener un tiempo difícil encontrarlo.
10. Chiapas es un mundo diferente del resto de México, usted puede sentir que es un estado fronterizo. Es mucho más tropical en la planta y casas, incluyendo un montón de uso de chozas con techos de paja. Algunas de las casas tienen un / sensación grecorromano para ellos, sobre todo en la parte sur del estado, las fuentes en línea indican que esto puede ser art deco, como los barones del café se enriquecieron en la década de 1920 y construyeron importantes edificios y monumentos de los pueblos ' en un estilo art deco.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
Sinaloa, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
Sinaloa, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
This is a picture that I took in Cancun the last weekend. Walking on the beach I suddenly saw this interesting composition. I love Mexico !!!!
So, enough El Fuerte, time to take El Chepe train from El Fuerte toward Chihuahua tomorrow morning.
El Fuerte is cute town, struggling to regain its tourist traffic after drug related violence by the Sinaloa drug cartel scared off the tourists.
From our experience the problem circles around the various drug related gangs and travel in Mexico is very safe - as long as keep your nose clean and don't participate in illegal activity, just like at home.
We love Mexico!
From Business Insider - 20 Oct 2014:
The Sinaloa Cartel is the single largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western hemisphere.
The Sinaloa is not a single hierarchical organization. Instead, it functions more as a confederacy of groups that are connected through blood, marriage, and regional relationships. Decisions for the group are ultimately made through board-of-directors-type mechanisms and not by a single leader.
This operational flexibility has allowed the Sinaloa to continue to thrive despite several setbacks. In 2008, the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO), once a core component of the cartel, split from the group and began to wage war against it. And earlier this year, Chapo Guzman, the group's multibillionaire architect and a criminal business visionary, was finally arrested in the coastal resort city of Mazatlan.
However, the Sinaloa made new alliances and continued to expand.
Today, the Sinaloa are active in 17 Mexican states and throughout the US. They have connections that stretch to Australia as well.
The Sinaloa's success is allegedly due in part to the organization's history of preferential treatment at the hands of US's Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexicans, who are accused of using the Sinaloa as a source of information or (even as a hands-off means of enforcement) against other, less pliable cartels.
Michelle and TJ in Akumal, Mexico. I'm updating my Web site bit by bit, and finding so many photos I've loved this year than never made it to Flickr. If you only view one of my slide shows this year, it should probably be TJ and Michelle, if only to encourage more couples to take me to the Bahamas and Mexico with them.
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Home made Burritos and a fab side-salad.
Mind you, there is lots of chili, not just on the top but also within.
If I can't warm you up, heat-you-up, maybe the meal will.
So do you dare to join me and if so I will provide the odd glass of Red.
+1 in comments.
yes, i do suffer from "big eye little eye." thank you, dad, and dad's side of the family, for that trait. :)
yeah, thats medical tape. bye, skin.
this is ANOTHER self-portrait because i've been so busy this week i've had no time to get out and shoot. (its just awesome how similar this is to this picture! =/) also, i've been tagged by two more times, the first one by Rachel ♡. so here is yet another 10 things.. i'm sure you're sick of them by now.
1. i just started guitar on wednesday, but i'm constantly practicing and teaching myself more tabs and whatnot. i'm passionate about this instrument.
2. i was born and lived in florida for 6 years. my family lived there for 10. we moved around a lot, living in tampa, palm harbor, and jacksonville.
3. i think i've got a relatively disproportionate body, but that may be just because i don't like it. i know people with way worse.
4. i'm really upset by the earthquake in haiti, although i might not show it since talking about it makes me sad. it just blows my mind that on 9/11, a huge tragedy, 3,000 people died. but in haiti, they're estimating 50,000 people have died already...
5. i think narwhal's are HILARIOUS. they're my favorite animal :D
6. this picture was taken in my room, and i say this because i hate the color of it. tan. boring. i've wanted to repaint it orange forever, my favorite color. or possibly a deep color, like dark purple. decisions decisions.
7. i really love mexican food. :)
8. i take German for my language at school.
9. i really want a pro account :(
10. i wish i could get more photos in explore.
i'm cheating:
11. i just realized how fat my arm looks in this. eck.
i'm not sure how i fond i am of either one, so this could be deleted.
they're both very awkward positions. but i'm not sure..
IF I TAG YOU I WANT TO KNOW 10 THINGS ABOUT YOU :D
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PS: 3,000+ views! thanks guys! i love you all! :DDDD