Visit to Oaxaca – Puppies and Tlayudas, but separate.

When I received a last-minute invitation to Oaxaca last week, it took me a few hours to accept, because I was supposed to go work with the bees on Saturday. However, it was a long weekend because of the independence day holiday on Friday, and this was too good of an opportunity to pass up. […]

Back from Oaxaca

It was a great long weekend, and the day started beautifully. The 10-hour ride back was tough, but all-in-all worth it. As usual, more photos to come. [mappress mapid=”9″]

A tiny bit wet

We each got one route in today before the rain drove us away from the rock but into the waterfall. There has been a lot of rain lately, maybe as the last salvo before the rainy season ends. Whatever the reason, the waterfall was so cold that it felt like icicles hitting your brain, but […]

Just the start

Weekends may only be 2 days long, but Saturday was a great start to this one. I had a short, but nice run in the morning followed by many hours of bouldering in Bernal. More climbing is planned for today. I know it was a good day of climbing yesterday, because my fingers are a […]

Take 2: Camping and Climbing

This time the plan was camp, climb, fiesta, maybe more climbing. However, looking back to Friday, my stomach was already a bit off. The (nearly) 3-hour run on Friday probably didn’t help. In fact, it kind of destroyed me. Maybe an ominous portent for Saturday, I had no energy to post about my success for […]

Are there circus groupies?

The 4th annual festival of alternative arts (Festival Siguientescena 2011) in town did not disappoint last week. Consisting of “unconventional theater, dance, and circus” performances, the general quality of the talent was extremely high. Full of great music, dance, and people doing generally crazy things with their bodies, these types of performances are some of my […]

Monday is for Organization

But here is a placeholder while I process the 45 or so images that I want to post from the Festival Siguientescena. This is my final photo of the evening and the festival, because my battery died right after I took this one. So fitting though, because b-boy Gregory from Canada was probably my favorite […]

Sometimes this happens.

When I’ve had a little bit more to drink than I intended. Meanwhile, the ongoing arts festival in town has been fantastic. More to come.

The bee’s knees

Apiculture has been a dream hobby of mine now for many years. I’m just fascinated by it. As far as dream hobbies go, I always felt that this one was rather realistic. However, still a little tricky to get into – not the type of thing I wanted to just read about and then buy my […]

The idea was climb, camp, climb…

It started with a afternoon of climbing on Saturday. I lead three really nice routes and had no falls. The camping followed on Saturday evening, and was going very well with one of my favorite combos: red wine, cheese, and bread. There was no rain, no mosquitos, a nice fire, and then whiskey. The final combination […]

Cultural Event – Ya ximhai xa nsu (Territorios de lo Sagrado)

On Sunday, I went to the closing day of a cultural exhibition on the indigenous people Otomi-Chichimecas or Hñahñu. The exhibition was highlighting the yearly pilgrimage of the Otomi-Chichimecas, Ya ximhai xa nsu, which translates to “Territories of the sacred or precious land”. I did not actually get a chance to see most of the exhibit, but […]

mmm…cerebros…

It was quite a weekend, which started on Thursday. By Saturday afternoon I felt like a zombie, which coincided perfectly with the Zombie Walk 2011 through the center of town. I was missing the obvious blood, but my hands were fairly scraped up on close inspection after having spend the morning (apparently somewhat desperately) clinging […]