The fact that he was right in the middle of switching from backstroke to the front crawl is credited with saving the boys life, for at this instant he was attacked by a crocodile. The cocodrilo was going for the old head bite and twist, but actually got all shoulder and torso... The boy escaped with one of the stranger scar patterns available."I was soooo vexed, That a croc took a pass at MY boy." Said the El Salvadoran father after unloading a shotgun on the bea...

2 days ago I hit a dog. Presumed dead. This was quite sad for me as I am sympathetic to the plight of dogs in general, and there is an especially soft spot in my heart for the dogs of Mexico. He was tearing into a plastic bag next to a tope in the middle of my lane as I approached at about 20 mph. I moved into the oncoming lane (there were no cars, and the tope was significantly less severe) but just as I was about to pass him he darted his usual path back to wha...

Since my last post...travelled north about 4 hours from Oaxaca to Puebla for a weekend with my host sister. She is a recent graduate of the law school there, and needed to sign her diploma... and party with her friends. We went to a futbol game between Puebla and some other team I don't know, the teams were both terrible in the league this year so it was quite cheap. Afterwords we sang karaoke and danced. I just couldn't explain how it would be impossible to pa...

"First you must ask the mushroom if he will allow you to boil him." "And sometimes the mushroom, he have nothing to teach." "Last year, the mushroom, he told me I could not take him unless he was a gift from someone I did not know" Quotes from the proprietor of our hostel, an epic fellow with a hair trigger laugh, a serious interest in magical mushrooms, and a pretty good guitar player. He along with his dog, a weimereiner (sp?) named vodka, entertained indisc...

Put chappolinas on the list of things I did not know were grasshoppers... when I ate them. Oaxaca city. Incredible town, and a great base for exploring the area. I am currently stuck in the loop from Oaxaca to Vera cruz to palenque to San cristobol up the coast to puerto Escondido and back to Oaxaca, I am not alone either, truly a challenge to escape this country. My language school has been excellent, "amigos del sol" ask for Rogelio. My host family has been ...