Chiapas; Michoacan; cenotes in Tulum; aguas termales in La Gloria, Hidalgo; El Sontule in Nicaragua; Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana; lovely Jackpot, Nevada.
Places I want to go to:
India, Slovenia, San Nicolas Island.
About me:
I'm a child of the American suburbs, expatriated to Mexico (via Missoula, Montana) to marry my oaxaqueño sweetie. I'm--with jumps and starts, and, I'd like to think, occasional grace--adjusting to life in a second language. I'm a part-time English teacher, sometime-writer, and a full-time dreamer, itching to get my hands in the dirt of my new home.
shoot, I wish i would have known. I was in Oaxaca for a week in early December. it was my first time and I loved it. The view and pozas up in the mountains where those "frozen waterfalls" are east of oaxaca are awesome. where do you stay there?
Oh thats too bad. But you should let me know if you do come!
I like Pachuca, although its a little boring. I teach English and Spanish to a group of Korean kids here.
What did you do while you were here?
Meghan is nine years old, and for the first time in her life, during her family’s stay in Mexico, lives in a house with a TV. She’s equally entranced by “Esponja Bob Pantalones Cuadros”, telenovelas, and commercials for hemorrhoid ointment: she’ll sit with a forgotten lump of...
I had never loved a river until I lived in Montana.
My first day in Missoula I waded out into the green flow, up above my knees. It was late August and hot, but—I didn’t know this then—the nights up in the mountains were autumn-chilly already and the river was...
I don't miss Missoula, but I miss the cottonwoods--their leafy green reach in the summer, their startling yellow in autumn, the way the crosshatch of their bare branches against the winter sky looks from far away like mist. I miss the rivers. I miss walking through falling snow in the...