Around San Miguel
Last week I was walking up from the bus station when I happened across my favorite of the indigenous dance groups that come into town, dancers luxagraf readers might recognize -- a group that turns out...
View ArticleVisa Run
I'm not aware of another country with a tourist visa process that's as simple and generous as what Mexico offers. You show up at the border, you get six months in the country. Cross over the border,...
View ArticleKoyaanisqatsi
A twenty minute cab ride north of San Miguel, on the road to Atotonilco, there's a stand of towering mesquite trees set back up against several plowed fields. Sprawled out under the mesquite like an...
View ArticleSemana Santa
Semana Santa, holy week, is the roughly two week period leading up to and just after Easter. If you want to pin it down more than that you're not Mexican. There is no pinning down time here. That's one...
View ArticleHorses
The girls have been asking to go horseback riding for quite a while now. Well before we came to Mexico. But in San Miguel horses come and go on a daily basis, which brought things to a sort of fever...
View ArticleHasta Luego
We came to Mexico with a pretty simple plan -- hang out, visit family, live cheap, save money, get some projects done. It is hard, traveling and working for someone else, to carve out time for your own...
View ArticleSeven
This year we spent the girls' birthday in Texas. Stuck in the middle as it were. We made the best of it. I drove to the nearest Mexican market and got a piñata. We found some papel picado at the bottom...
View ArticleSummertime Rolls
We flew back to states thinking we'd booked a house in Athens, GA. That ended up falling through at the last minute, which left us homeless. Not a new thing for us, but a hassle when you're trying to...
View ArticleRoad Trip
The America family road trip -- immortalized so well by Chevy Chase and company -- is a pretty miserable experience in my view. Pack the kids in the car to drive all day and half the night to Disney...
View ArticleHanging Around Town
Athens has always been a good town to come back to. It's something of a joke among those of us who've been coming and going for decades now. Most of my friends in Athens have left for somewhere else at...
View ArticleOld Growth
Spread out a map of the United States and trace your finger down the border of North Dakota and Minnesota. Let your finger drift to the west a little as to comes down through South Dakota, across...
View ArticleBird Watching
Most mornings I am up early enough to hear the signature sounds of whippoorwills, sometimes even the cackling of an owl. It's not long before those birds quiet down though. By the time my coffee is...
View ArticleBack to Raysville
After the better part of a month hanging around Athens, GA, we were ready for a break. Cities, even small ones like Athens, stress me out these days. Even when I'm technically miles away from them....
View ArticleCounty Fair
Once, years ago, Wired ran a Christmas wish list in which they asked each of the writers what we would want if we could have anything. I, fresh off the boat from southeast Asia, said: ubiquitous fast...
View ArticleHalloween
Autumn has finally arrived in this part of the world. A series of fronts have been moving through, delivering crisp cold mornings one day and then damp foggy ones the next.image by Corrinne...
View ArticleLand
Out here the land is always present in you. The smell of wet leaves in your nose after a rain. The glittery glare of stream water in the noonday sun in your eye. The sharp crack of a twig breaking...
View ArticleBirthday at the Beach
Last year I promised Elliott that he and I would have our birthday at the beach, and we did.But next year I'm upping the specificity: we're going to have our birthday at a beach where it's warm.Not...
View ArticleHoliday Island
It rained pretty much all day for a couple days. We spent way too much time indoors. Thankfully there were a lot of recent birthday gifts to keep the kids occupied. We considered giving the kids their...
View ArticleWalking
We've never stayed at the beach front campground in Edisto. We prefer the marsh campground, back from the beach, on the inland side of the salt grass marsh. It's not any less crowded, but there's at...
View ArticleTraveling
I dislike traveling. This will seem like a strange comment coming from someone like me, but it's true. I don't like traveling. By traveling I mean leaving home, leaving your sanctuary, your familiar....
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