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Mexican Cooking Class
When we arrived to Mexico in August, the restaurants were advertising chiles en nogada, a seasonal dish that also commemorates Mexican Independence. There are variations to the legend of the dish’s...
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An Out-of-This-World Experience
“We are 20 years too old for this trip,” I protested. “This trip” was a 3-day, 2-night SUV trip through the high plains of Bolivia and ending in the Uyuni salt flat, the world’s largest. The reviews...
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The Lunar Landscape – Uyuni Trip Continued
Day 2 began early in the dark and cold. Breakfast was terrible and the hostel workers were hostile, so we were on our way without delay. The theme of the day was rocks and more rocks. The pictures...
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Give My Mom a Gun?
My mom was 5 feet tall. In December, 1993, she was 56 years old and struggling with her grief over my dad’s death the prior year. She worked in the library at Wauwatosa West High School. She was one of...
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Day and Night Visits to the Ancient City of Teotihuacan
I love visiting archeological sites. I drive Matt crazy because I want to read and look at everything, but I find it fascinating to see the remnants of ancient cultures. Equally fascinating to me is...
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A Wine and Cheese Weekend
Wine and cheese in Mexico – who knew?! We are cheeseheads, after all, and were thrilled to find there is a wine and cheese route just a few hours away from Mexico City. We checked it out with our...
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A Most Unusual Deity
Today Matt and I experienced a god that I feel certain both of our dads would have loved: Maximón*, the cigarette smoking, booze swigging Mayan deity. Maximón and his Buzzed Keepers We are on Lake...
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Wild, Wacky Utila
I surprised myself when I lobbied for our first Honduran long weekend in September to be to the Caribbean Bay Island of Utila, one of Honduras’s 3 Bay Island. Roatan is the island of resorts and cruise...
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Quarantine in Honduras
Matt and I are in Week 4 of the Covid-19 quarantine restrictions and in the middle of our Spring Break Staycation. I’m sure we feel the same as most of our friends and family around the world –...
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