Blogs from Tabasco, Mexico, North America - page 2

Letting the days go by.. It's fucking hot. Weed is extremely cheap. I can smell the fresh pineapple across the table. The air is damp and still. I can usually hear the chickens and turkeys outside. A group of turkeys patrols the streets occasionally, meandering around keeping the town in order by puffing up and gobbling; we dubbed it the 'turkey mafia.' It seems like a lot of the guys spend their days going to the jungle with machetes to harvest fruits and beans, or to clear land for the ecopark. Most of the women seem to look after domestic affairs, spending a majority of the day feeding everyone, cleaning and tending to animals. Church is pretty big:. Catholics and Jehova's Witnesses. Black beans grow here and there are a million chickens, so we eat eggs ... read more

And I will say we are so glad to make it, by far the worst roads we have ever encountered in Mexico. Cuota roads, pot holes as deep as craters, washouts and plainly no maintenance in a long time. End result 1 trailer with a broken spring, 2 units with lights shaken apart our rod in the close closet jumped off and bent like an accordian it remains to be found any more damage. Leaving Catemeco we left early as no one had ever taken the MEX 180 that far down before thus we had no clue what we were going to find. We started off on a scenic libre road passing through many small towns and lots of topes. Changed to MEX 185, then MEX 145 then to Veracruz quota 180 when we reached our ... read more

Catemaco, Veracruz, a 31 de octubre del 2009. Saludos. Les mando muchos saludos desde estas tierras de chamanes (casualmente pasaba yo por el pueblo de los brujos en el dìa de las brujas) y aprovecho para mandarles algunas fotos de Villahermosa, capital de Tabasco, Estado famoso por los polìticos de alta calidad y probidad que ha producido (Roberto Madrazo, Manuel Barlett, Lòpez Obrador, Arturo Nuñez y otras linduras màs). La capital, al igual que el resto del territorio estatal, està llena de agua: 2 rìos (Grijalva y Carrizal) y muchos lagos, lagunas, charcos y charquitos (de sed aquì nadie se muere). El clima igual de caluroso que la Penìnsula de Yucatàn. El principal atractivo turìstico de la ciudad (y el Estado) es el Museo Parque "La Venta", creado a iniciativa de un poeta local (cuyo nombre ... read more

On Thursday the 5th of March Chuck and I were on the east coast of the Yucatan in Playa del Carmen for the sunrise. That day we drove across the peninsula and watched the sunset on the west coast at a beachfront restaurant on Isla Aguada, where we camped for the night. The next morning Chuck and I drove to Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco. Villahermosa is home to La Venta Park, where there is a zoological park and a collection of monuments from the ancient Olmec cities. The Olmec monuments date from hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. La Venta Park is located adjacent to the Lagoon of Illusions, which is partially located within a city park with beautiful gardens and walking paths. After visiting La Venta Park we took a taxi ... read more

Villahermosa, 23-01-1990. We decided on an over night bus to Villahermosa which took eight hours so we would save money on a hotel. Two of our belizian friends came along to the bus depot their faces looking sour at seeing us off without any business done, too bad.....FOR THEM!!! James even took a whole cigarette pack out of the shirt pocket of one of them, the man really can over do things when he feels safe behind my back. Still....the cigarettes came in really handy for the long over haul to Villahermosa. We had a long discusion about putas to while away the long bus ride. According to James putas son como drogas but he just likes them, tell me something new, mon!!! ... read more