Doug’s Travels

Straight from the road, in the moment, in the head-space writing!

Raw entries have not been carefully edited - or edited at all.  Warning: Raw posts may have typos, they may tend to ramble, parts of them may not make sense.  Part or all of them should be interesting.  Much of the content from these entries will probably be rewritten and posted as one or more smaller, tighter stories.  Some of these may eventually disappear as they get replaced with their better-written versions (unless they garner some interesting comments).

Life can be slow in a smallish Mexican town on a Sunday. For for towns with a market on Sunday, this is certainly not the case, but in this town (Tlaxiaco), the market was yesterday. By this morning, the stalls were long gone, the garbage all cleaned up, and the place looking like a different town altogether.

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I am in Tlaxiaco, a smallish town north of Oaxaca. I came here specifically for the Saturday market, which is supposed to be the second largest in the state. Well, I’m not sure about that, but I’m glad I came. Continue reading

Yesterday I visited the most amazing geological formation - Hierve de Agua. It is formed by springs that bubble up water saturated with minerals and gas. You can see and hear the gas escaping from the spring. Continue reading