Adventuriety
Day one of San Miguel de Allende out of the next thirty-one days, the first thirty-one days of our new adventure and we find out our beautiful casita sits on the precipice of a questionable neighborhood. The neighborhood is called Las Cuevitas which means “little caves” for the caves that people once lived in there. It is a place of extreme poverty and all of...
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Adventuriety
Our days in Mexico City were a bit surreal. I couldn’t help but think about Charles Wallace, the incredibly intuitive child on a dangerous, multi-dimensional quest in the children’s book, A Wrinkle in Time. He profoundly observed to his sister that “This is a traveling time.” It was a traveling time for us, literally, yes, but figuratively for sure. We were in a time of...
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Inspirietry
It always surprises me, the things that inspire me to learn about something. I became slightly obsessed with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during our time in Mexico City. I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t know one thing about Diego Rivera when we arrived, but I have a friend who told me to see the Diego Murals in Mexico City. Serendipitously, we went...
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Adventuriety
Day three in Mexico City and our second tour. I wanted to see a little bit more of Mexico City and signing us up for another tour was an easy way to do it. Besides, Frida Kahlo’s house was on the tour and I was excited to visit it. Our first scheduled stop was Xochimilco, the last remnants of the Aztec’s intricate canal and farming...
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Adventuriety
I think history is fascinating and complicated. What else could it be? Life is complicated and when you view a whole bunch of complicated lives over a period of time, viola, you have an intricate story called history. For me, understanding a timeline helps tremendously in understanding the history of a location. I am not a very good information pre-loader…I am always too busy planning...
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