Category Archives: Trips

Adios, México

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
The day I left Mexico it was raining. The morning was a blue the color of the second layer of sea, the layer underneath the clear turquoise where the water becomes soft and quiet and absorbing and the blue comes in deep, subtly varying layers. There was a luminous, gleaming blue woven into [...]
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The Perils And Possibilities Of Revolutionary Tourism

9th
Jun. × ’10
By Sarah
It is hard for me to talk about the Zapatistas without the immediate, cynical self-censor popping up and pointing its wry satiric finger at me. There is so much revolutionary hanging-on taking place in Mexico, and so much of it reeks of that vapid and imperial pat-yourself-on-the-back irony in which wealthy university professors from the North [...]
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The Difference between San Cristóbal and Oaxaca

4th
Jun. × ’10
By Sarah
For two cities who share so many of the same elements – indigenous people in the streets, selling embroidered blouses and friendship bracelets; an impervious and snottily racist upper-middle class in overly tight clothes and too much makeup; tourism of the quaint-colonial-Mexico type and the revolutionary-Thai-fisherman-pant type – San Cristobal de las Casas and Oaxaca [...]
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Backpacking The Sierra Norte: A Classic Travelogue

29th
Apr. × ’10
By Sarah
Cuajimoloyas is the starting point, easiest to access via rickety old bus from the city center.  The bus is bursting with luggage; packages, bags and buckets tied down atop it, shoved into the racks inside, huddled between the knees of its passengers, quivering in the aisles.  August and Natalie headed to two seats in the [...]
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