http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Nuevo Leon , Monterrey en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:31:36 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:31:36 +0000 The city of Monclova was founded in 1689 and is largely known as the steel capital of Mexico. That night we drove to the annual steel festival which is filled with authentic mexican music games and an abundance of the local beer Tecate. I was amazed at how cheap every thing was. The next day after some tortillas we went to explore the Aztec theme park in Northeastern Mexico. The park is is grea http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-451435.html Arriving in Mexico after an hour connection flight from Dallas I met my good friend Hector and his family in Monterrey. This major industrial center is surrounded by beautiful moutains that are filled with trails and canyons. I immediately was exposed to the Spanish language with Hector's family speaking little English. My four years of study would finally be put to the test. It started to pour a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-451430.html Alright so as stated before it's been a while since updating last and this is part two of this update frenzy. I congratulate you for making it this far but there's still more to come. Now I haven't been traveling too much up to this point but I have done a bit of journeying around Monterrey and Hanging out with friends Mexican and Exchange and of course studying. That's why I came here in t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-389794.html This is an old article originally published here httpsachinb.blogspot.com200710matteroflifeandluck.htmlThis 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 s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-371617.html 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 climateMonterrey'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 Howev http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-368792.html So i have a different site for pictures but i might put some of my excursionpictures directly on here. if you want to see all of the pictures i take youcan go to picasaweb and there i will have albums of everything. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-366109.html 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 Tecnolgico de Monterrey and got our welcome packets whic http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-362452.html Pictures and Videos of the Flight http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-361290.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-360919.html Visited Countries MapMonterreyLoopy FruitiesMexico being a kinda sorta tropical place exotic fruits are sold on every street corner. And they put chilli sauce on everything. Buy some sliced melon they'll ask you if you want chilli sauce on it. On your melon. I shit you not.For Gods' SakeThe National Museum of Broken Bits of Pottery had a neat exhibition on the preColumbian Teotihuacan civiliz http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-337930.html visit http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-337469.html Monterrey Mexico. I forgot my camera the one day I was there so these photos are courtesy of TJ Joyce a guy from Austin I met here and traveled to Real de Catorce with. We saw a AAA Legue baseball game. There was a power outage and a bench clearing brawl. It was a great time. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-309917.html Arrival in Mexico Monterrey. 7th July11th JulyWe packed up our camp in San Antonio and had breakfast at the Chuckwagon. Appropiately as we were off to Mexico we had tacos. We were both feeling a bit nervous as we boarded the bus that would take us over the border and into Mexico. Neither of us could speak much Spanish and we didn't really know what to expect of Mexico. This was really going to t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-307656.html Hello everyone Very sorry that we haven't updated in such a long time we either haven't had access to a computer or it's been ridiculously expensive to go on the internet.Anyway where we last left off we were both rather unwell and on our last week of teaching in Cuzco. That was nearly a month ago so we'll blast our way through the last few weeks in this update.Leaving the schools was pret http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-279499.html Kiitoksia kannustavasta palautteesta Kuubajuttuun liittyen valitettavasti aina ei ole aikaa tai kerrottavaakaan niin paljoa etta vastaavia tarinoita saisi kirjoitettua. Tassapa siis taas vahan lyhyempi blogimerkinta.Mexico Cityssahan on vaikka mita. Koko D.F Mexicon metroalueen asukasluku on 20 miljoonaa jolla sijoitutaan aivan maailman karkeen suurimpien kaupunkien listalla. Eipa tuommoista http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-276328.html more photoshttpwww.kodakgallery.comI.jspc6448g34s.99x8r5awx0yn08h1w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-240197.html huasteca more photos.httpwww.kodakgallery.comI.jspc6448g34s.32qnh2l4x0ykr61wa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-240190.html Aqui estan algunas fotos de nuestro de mi amigo Frederic y yo viaje a MonterreySaltillo. Lo mejor del viaje es que conocimos muchas buenas amistades como podran ver en las fotos. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-222992.html Our bags barely touched the ground in Tumbes as three charming and seemingly helpful guys loaded the four of us bags into the back of their fiveseater car while they all squished into the front Ten minutes later we find ourselves in a locked car park in the seemingly lawless no man's land between Peru Ecuador The three men were now threatening us and asking for USD35 each At first http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-200198.html So I finally arrived in Monterrey after getting zero sleep the night before but thats what I get for leaving all my packing and prep for the last minute The rush of finally arriving to Mexico by far exceeded my sleepless night and I felt a high like no other no place to sleep I stick out like a sore thumb as not many tourists pass through this city that is only a 1 hour flight from Houston. 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