Bohemian Mermaid Palace

 Video: Driving Through Oaxaca to Monte Albán   Another quick post from my trip to Mexico, mostly video. This day (feb 2020) we drove up up up to the ruins at the top of a huge hill just outside of Oaxaca de Juaréz. Actually, I turned on the camera after we drove through a gigantic intersection of death. Okay not death, near death haha. I thought something else wild might happen, but not especially.      Here's the video:  Oaxaca Mexico! Driving to Monte Alban   It is a neat view of the side streets of the city, each turn becoming steeper and steeper until we drove along the cliff to the very top.            The ruins were amazing, I believe one of the largest sites in Mexico. We had breakfast at the beautiful little restaurant overlooking the city. I feel so lucky to have been able to celebrate my 50th juuuust before they locked everything down for covid. More stories and videos to come.  

Video: A Wonderful Wedding Parade in Oaxaca, Mexico   While wandering the long pedestrian street in el centro de Oaxaca city, we found ourselves in the middle of a massive wedding parade or Calenda. It was magical! Giant puppets, bands, and beautiful people in traditional dress as far as we could see. You know I love the full embroidery and skirts, they were everywhere. There was candy flying, and of course the usual shot of mezcal in that little bamboo shot glass. So much fun!! More from my trip coming soon. It's about time! Here's a short video from that day:  Beautiful Oaxaca! Huge Wedding Parade      

For my first long awaited story from my trip to Oaxaca, I want to share about one of the most wonderful adventures we had there. I haven't posted about my trip at all yet, which is kind of weird. But this trip had so many layers and moments... I've had trouble organizing it all into words. Not a problem I have very often. Ha. And there are other current distractions as we know. I'm starting with this experience because I gave one of these red pottery items to a friend, and due to social distancing I couldn't tell her the cool story that went along with it. So here it is! Ok quick intro, the whole reason I picked Oaxaca for my 50th birthday trip was for the art and crafts traditions there. Entire villages will focus on one craft, everyone does it and has for generations. It's all very down to basics, which I love. I also speak some spanish and have always wanted to visit Mexico. So when I saw an article about how you could go stay with native Zapotec famil