We are back in Mexico for two weeks....we got here tonight with ease, and have found a great inexpenisve hotel (The Brasilia) right near the bus terminal where we will catch a bus to the Teotehuacan pyramids tomorrow. So I will have photos tomorrow! It is warm here, but a bit rainy. All for now...time for bed...we've been up since 4:30 this am! Sunday afternoon We had a less than ideal night...our room was right on the very busy truck route into the city and the people next yo us were noisy, but we had found a nice little restuarant nearby [View Full Entry]

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We spent Wednesday taking it easy, since I came down with some little bug Tuesday night...but did get the house where Diego Rivera was born and to a speciality shop for local sweets. We also took the funicular up the hill for the first time! Our hosts had us over for dinner....and we went to bed after packing....and heard the incredible dog chorus for the last time....you can hear the dogs barking in waves around the city..and then several times a night the more than five dogs that live on the roofs below us and the ones behind us take up [View Full Entry]

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Today we took a public bus for over an hour on dirt roads to the "Christo Rey", a giant bronze statue of Jesus erected in the geographic center of Mexico... the bus ride was great...some little towns, but mostly open land with long views across the valleys. There were many mines along the way, so for gold, and some for silver. On the way back, we visited the Templo de Valencia, with three giant gold covered altars. This was built to appease God after the mine owners treated their workers so badly... We tried to visit the Mineral Museum at the [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we took a taxi up to the small lakes at one end of the valley or bowl where the town is located, and walked back down. There were lots of old, beautiful government buildings along the way down....I went into one "museum" that turned out to be a very hokey haunted house... Today we took a taxi up to a mining town above Guanajuato, where there is a decaying but lovely old church ad an active silver mine. The church was locked but I asked woman nearby if it would open later. Turned out she had the keys in her [View Full Entry]

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Last night we stayed in town for the singing groups that perform each weekend, dressed in period costumes, and singing popular Mexican folksongs while strolling through the town... We had thought the town crowded on Thursday night, but yesterday afternoon and evening it was hard to walk around in some places! Everyone is polite and friendly, though, and there is a mix of college and high school students looking for action, tourists (a small minority of these are gringos), families with small children, and older people.... Walking home after dark is an adventure since the lights are out [View Full Entry]

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We took a luxury bus from Mexico City to Guanajuato today, traveling through the countryside northwest of Mexico City for 4 and a half hours. This city is an old mining town, where silver was found before the Spanish arrived. It is in small basin surrounded by hills, and reached through a series of tunnels. Most of the city is only accessible by foot. The buildings are painted in many colors, and there is a magnificent theater in the middle. The town is crowded (there is a university here, so there are lots of students), but really pleasant...with many small side [View Full Entry]

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We had another great day, visiting museums and walking around in the warm, warm weather! Yesterday we took the "Turibus" a fairly new bus service that costs $10.00 a person and lets you travel a set curcuit all day, getting on and off as you like. We got stuck in a large political demonstration, but not for too long. We first stopped at the site of the Templo Major, part of the vast Aztec city that stood where the center of Mexico City is now. Next, we went on to the Anthropology Museum, where you could spend days....We then got back [View Full Entry]

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We are on a two week trip to Mexico City... If you're not interested in this trip, please unsubscribe, so the messages don't annoy you! We left a rainy Seattle, flew to a frozen Chicago for the night (where a false fire alarm forced us out into 4 degree weather at 6:00 am!), and then on to Mexico City. We love it here! The city is huge, of course, and polluted...but the weather is late springlike....and the air fairly clean for now. The architecture is varied and beautiful, the people friendly and helpful. Many have talked about the European feel here, [View Full Entry]

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Well, the last days are here...we are busy arranging travel back to Seattle and on to LaConner...and seeing the sights in Panama City... The Canal was amazing....! We arrived around noon as a tanker was heading northwest (or to the Atlantic...directions are confusing here since Panama mostly runs east-west and the canal north-south) through the locks. Two small sailboats then came through in to opposite direction. And then they announced there would be no more boats til 3:30 pm! We visited the exhibits (two days of Canal info is a lot!), ate lunch overlooking the locks and then got to s [View Full Entry]

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