Blogs from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, North America

So, I've got about a month left now. I'm currently in Monterocco Hostel in Monterrey, spending an afternoon typing infront of a screen in the dark, as I've spent the last few days walking through the parks and city streets of this place, and I'm knackered. Monterrey is definitely one of the better places I've stayed in recently. I remember in Mexico City some yank questioning me with a perplexed look on his face as to why I wanted to travel north. I replied that I wanted to see all of Mexico, but with hinesight I can see what he meant. There are some awesome mountains and canyons in the north, which I'll get to, but everything else just seems to be industry. The fact that more people have died since 2008 in drug related violence ... read more

March 27, Friday After carefully rolling the bike back through the hotel office and out on to the street, we took off to the first “touristy” thing we’ve done, La Iglesias de Madero. This is a chapel perched high atop a rock overlooking the entire valley of Paras de la Fuente. As we pulled into the parking lot, we were accosted by 3 boys trying to sell us small models of the church on the rock. Somebody in our party is a soft touch - we bought one for 10 pesos - with no bargaining - and then I gave the ringleader 5 more pesos “por la securidad del motocicleta” and waved another 5 pesos coin for “quando nosotros returnomos” which I hoped meant “when we return”. It must have been close enough, as the bike ... read more

This is an old article, originally published here: http://sachinb.blogspot.com/2007/10/matter-of-life-and-luck.html This is the story of how stupid and yet how lucky and propitious can a person get. If I'm here writing this story, it is due to sheer luck I had accumulated. I'm not sure whom should I be thanking but I presume that everyone one of you have mattered for me to be alive and share this story, accept my wholehearted thanks. Among many lessons I learnt after this incident, the most important one, trust me, Nothing Is Larger Than Life. The Trek After cancelling the hike to the magnficient Cerro de la Silla at the last moment, Keno and myself decided that we should go elsewhere. I was very much lured by Pico Cuauhtémoc in Cerro de las Mitras for the challenge and adventure it ... read more

Alright everybody this is going to be my first real blog where i'll tell everything. Until now i kinda just said a few things hear and there. So, now is the full tour so far. Monterrey, Mexico, the climate: Monterrey's climate is almost perfect. During the day the temperature had gotten into the mid to high eighties with just a little bit of cloud cover. This type of weather is phenomenal, However the students on campus still wear jackets and what not. But, there's the downside of this almost perfect weather. The yesterday the high was 64°F and the low got down to 46°F. I realize that for those of you back home you still don't sympathize with me because i believe you still have snow, according to weather.com you guys had a High of 45°F ... read more

So, i have a different site for pictures but i might put some of my excursion pictures directly on here. if you want to see all of the pictures i take you can go to picasaweb and there i will have albums of everything.... read more

Alright so it's offically been a day over a week in Mexico, and I'm sorry for no pictures or videos yet, i'm still working on it. So an overview of what's been going on and what not. Day one: I arrive in Monterrey from my flights having met about 5 people in my program, who all seemed and are very nice and awesome. We were driven to Tec (Tecnológico de Monterrey) and got our welcome packets which came in some very cool mexican blanket bags. We then signed in and they called our host families. It took a while for my host dad to pick me up because he came about right when i got there and they told him that i had not arrived yet. 8) Can you believe it how do you miss me, ... read more

I'm in Mexico!!! I just got settled in my room and everything is great!!! My Host family is beyond awesome and I've already met some really cool people. Tomorrow I start Orientation stuff and I'm not so sure that I'm excited, But I am for some of it. Espero que sus semestres vaya bien. I'll be posting pics and stuff a little later but I'm going to bed now.... read more

Pictures and Videos of the Flight!!!... read more