http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/kilometers/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from kilometers en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:02:36 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:02:36 +0000 Comida FoodEverything in Mexico seems to come with hot sauce or limon and chili. Here in Oaxaca there is mezcal flavored ice cream with chili in it. The salsa that people eat is either green or red. It is never chunky. Never. Sometimes the red sauce is not too hot just kind of smokey. The green sauce usually contains jalapeos and avocado. Sometimes the green sauce does not contain avoca http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Oaxaca/blog-304163.html After being here for a little less than two weeks things are finally starting to fall into place. What is taken for granted in the U.S. cannot be in Mexico. Sometimes this is downright charming and in other cases one is left wondering what to think.Perros de la calleor Dogs of the streetMario had told Tessa and I stories about or more correctly stated cautioned us about the dogs in small town http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/San-Cristobal-de-las-Casas/blog-301587.html PeopleIn general everyone has been warm. This may be do to the strong sense of family which is evident whenever observation is made. During breakfast I noted a father cutting up some version of a tortilla with cheese on it for one of his children. The manner in which he was attending to his child was infused with a certain tenderness often lacking in parentchild interactions in the United Stat http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Oaxaca/blog-300151.html The MetroAlthough we took the Metro to Coyocan to see Fridas house the glory of the system did not make its full impact upon me until Mario ledTessa and I to the National Museum of Anthropology which in itself is very cool containing giant phallic statues stone heads and giant stone boxes full of knives. In the metro having 1 through 9 or 12 and A through H different lines with intersecti http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Oaxaca/blog-298477.html Flights in a nut shellThe flight from Sacramento to LA was uneventful until we were approaching the tarmac of LAX and were treated to the sight of the illuminated pin point grid that was LA from thousands of feet up marked by disks of exploding light that were an very U.S. way of celebrating independence. After eating reading and generally lounging around terminal 7 for two hours I decided tha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-296651.html In a few hours time Mario Tessa and myself will be on the road joking with my father as he drives us to Sacramento International Airport. At twenty hundred hours we board a United flight to LAX. Once in lovely Los Angeles there is a four hour layover to look forward to. From there we catch a flight to San Salvador El Salvador two hours to wake up realize we are in Central America and fi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Chico/blog-295391.html