Coyocan Work never ends, but vacations must with the joy of homecoming and the memories, more sweet than bitter, of more casual days and exotic adventures. The final tally of tolls was paid in a quicker journey from Oaxaca on a Sunday where we were spared traffic jams until navigating our way through Mexico City …
Month: December 2018
Paying the Cuota to Neo-Liberalism on Mexican Highways
Oaxaca Google Maps and common sense conspire on Mexican highways to eliminate your choices when the signs driving to Mexico City or Puebla or Oaxaca say either Cuota or Libre, essentially toll road or free road, especially when in this case “libre” means an extra thirty to sixty minutes on the road, if you are …
Monte Alban
Oaxaca A thousand years is a frightfully long amount of time. Think Romans, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, and native tribes, but also think about the Zapotecs, because that gives you an idea of the length of time that they dominated the Oaxacan valley of the Sierra Madres in southern Mexico. They did so from an …