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September 16, 2003
mexico entry: tulum
so after the protest aaron and i booked down here, today´s the third day but we head out to san cristobal de las casas at 4, we´re going swimming till then. last night was the independence day celebration here in mexico, there were fireworks and local bands and tons of food in the square next to the bital bank. the fireworks looked better then the ones you see in the u.s., probably cause they exploded so much lower then is allowed back home, there were bits of flaming debre floating down onto the crowd, who nimbly stepped aside. aaron and i ate nopal tacos, nopal is a kind of cactus, so amazingly good, and a buck fifty for 3. aaron says that he doesn´t know how he will eat when he gets back to the u.s., the food here is so good, and we´re been pondering making our own hot sauce when we get back home, using some techniques we´ve observed here.
tomorrow at 8 we will alight from the bus in san cristobal, the city i spent the most time in on my last trip here, in a way it will be like returning to san sebastian, but not really, i spent a year there and when i do return there the memory overflow will be staggering.
had a chance yesterday to write to all my friends i met on my last trip, not to run in their faces that i´m back at all, just to say hi.
i fall back into the backpacker lifestyle rather easily, lounging on the beach and reading books, but i´m secretly glad it will only be for a week more or so. i look forward very much to beginning the interpreting volunteering when i get back.
ok, that´s enough, oh yeah, there will be an article about me and aaron being down here in the reno weekly, i´ll link to it on thursday. should be good, the lady, deidra pike, who´s writing it, is good people.
Posted by bendan at September 16, 2003 06:58 AM
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