Blogs from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - page 41

Wanting to see more small town life I hopped on to a bus to the above with no real idea of what was there. Two hours later, up a slow road I reached the town and it´s community ran tourist office. I said I wanted to do some trekking and after paying 50pesos for some reason and armed with a basic handrawn map they drove me to the entrance. The track seemed basically a farm track, and although it was all very natural and attractive, it seemed to lack any particular focus to make it more than pleasant. A little dismayed over why I had to pay money to walk what seemed a public road and get no real information, thoughts ran through my mind on how to add a bit of adventure to it. I ... read more

The bus rode through some beautiful landscape en route to Oaxaca, glorious mountainous landscape, with cacti taking the place of trees. After a while the land flattened and lost some of its interest. At this point my mind drifted on how to liven up my trip a bit. Slow progress with the Spanish had been frustrating me, which so many of my plans and options revolved around. Uncertainty over what to do about work and a general concern about spending too much time and money drifting from city to city and not seeing the more interesting and less accessible places. I had written a travelling philosphy to which I want to obey to make the most of my trip, I think I´m a little way off at the moment and I need to rectify the situation, ... read more

Thursday, 27 Oct On plane We left home at 2 pm to travel by bus to the airport. We bought a sandwich from Subway to eat for dinner since Air Canada doesn't serve meals any more. The Air Canada plane to Los Angeles left on time at 5:40 pm. The weather had been good today, but the rain clouds were coming in as we left and the forecast was rain every day for the next week - a good time to be leaving. It took three hours to L.A., where we had to change terminals to the international terminal. This was the most depressing place - dark and dingy. But all of a sudden, it was like you were already in a different country - on the plane down from Vancouver (unlike when we go to ... read more

So we arrived in Oaxaca city last night, way later than we thought. Had a really weird day and night and evening in the bus, San Poncho to La Puenita (sp?) to Guadalajara, to Mexico City, to Oaxaca City... it was all a blur. Except for waking up in Mexico city freezing cold because for some reason at 5am in the mountains they have air conditioning on? Really cold, i had my arms in my shirt basically in the fetal position trying to keep warm, but it was worth it to wake up and laugh at Jord & Ryan doing the same thing. Anyways, we had a GREAT day in Mexico city sitting in the bus depot slowly dying from the pollution. But then we got on the bus for Oaxaca city and realized it was ... read more

Hello all, Well, I´m back in Oaxaca after a wonderfully relaxing weekend away to this tiny town called Ixtlan. It is up in the mountains. I went with Erica and her friend Radie came for one night. It was pretyt funny because we were going to go to another town, but we waited for the bus that was supposed to come at 4·30 for aboiut 45 minutes and finally decided to go to Ixtlan instead. This really nice Senora kept telling us that everyday the bus comes at 4·30, but then, around 4·45 or so, she was like, well, some times it comes at 4·10, or 4·20. We were like, alright, let´s just go to Ixtlan. Since we really hadn´t planned our trip at all, it made it easy to switch locations. (Later in this blog ... read more