Mexican Odyssey

  Le Brunch   The beautiful home of Marie France & Cristophe Entertaining the Expats 10/03/24 – 16/03/24   Sunday 10 March 2024 I had been invited to a brunch at the home of Marie France and Cristophe Hubert, a lovely expat couple from France. It was to be a pot luck, so everyone was going to bring a dish. Since cooking for normal people is not one of my strengths, I mentioned that I could bring my guitar and entertain “the troops,” and Marie France enthusiastically agreed. Martha, my facilitator/Spanish coach volunteered to drive me from the mall if I could meet her there, and I accepted. I took a couple of combi buses to the mall on Sunday morning, and we drove to Campo de Golf El Cristo, the gated community where Marie France and Cristophe live. When we arrived and got through the heavily guarded gates, I was glad I had a ride there, because it would have been a half hour walk from the gate to their beautiful house. Their home is huge, airy and open, with ...

From the morning of 29 Feb. I think that's the worst it can get. 150224-090324 The air quality was bad for most of last week, so I stayed inside until evening when it cleared up a bit and I was able to get some walking in then. I probably should have realized that poor air quality was due to the volcano, Popocatépetl , but I didn’t think it was anything to worry about. I was sweeping up more ash than usual outside, but I reckoned that it had to do with changing winds. Then, I was watching Colbert’s “Meanwhile” segment on YouTube on Tuesday and found out that old Don Popo had erupted 13 times on February 28 th , and he had gifted us with a f**k-ton of ash in the air and all over the place. And that ash is heavy as hell and it gets in everywhere! The air is much better now; I even walked to the top of the Cerro de San Miguel again on Thursday. That is the 3 rd time I’ve done that. I think I may try to climb that bastard of a hill once a week from now on. It takes me about 2 h...