FACEBOOK AND FRIENDS: DECEMBER

Pictures have the power to tell a story, I’ve been told. So this one’s told through facebook photos. I’m addicted to curating photographs, so see if you can follow it. None of these photos were taken or uploaded to the internet by me, so they may disappear. All those depicted are [...]

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my homecoming through point and shoot digital camera

It’s funny being back in the United States. I’m just realizing how different attitudes about government, race, tradition, etc. were in Mexico compared to here. In a short time my dominant personality trait of adaptability threw me off and now I’m feeling a little bit of culture shock.
I had a pleasant [...]

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RED STATE

So I slept for an hour last night on the floor of the Phoenix International Airport. I’m back in the United States. America, el otro lado.
I’m still keeping up with the blog even though it was originally just for this Mexican thing. I think I accomplished the goal I set in the [...]

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MEXIKKKO FINISHED

So, I’m writing to you from the freezing mountain town of Prescott, Arizona. I finished the posts from Mexikkko (a pun of Ice Cube’s album Amerikkka’s Most Wanted) and I’m headed back to my homeland of New Jersey to pay some visitation to the family I have neglected for my six months down south. [...]

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MEXIKKKO PT 11: PASS OF CORTEZ TO TENOCHTITLAN

exhausted, drunk, broke and hyped up on veracruz coffee, we ascended back into the mountains in the footsteps of hernán cortés to the surreal sprawling landscape of mexico city. and so concluded our dangerous/debaucherous trek around mexico. we lived.

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MEXIKKKO PT 10: SAILORS AND WHORES

We left the rainforest a day late and bribed our way out of a scare with immigration. They had begun a campaign to check the papers of every foreigner in the country among the backdrop of a drug war; or they saw an opportunity to collect some bribe money. In the morning, we [...]

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MEXIKKKO PT 9: LONELY BIOSPHERE

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MEXIKKKO PT 8: FIRST JUNGLE THANKSGIVING

thanksgiving spent in the jungle surrounding the ancient lake of catemaco- paid a local fisherman 50 pesos to catch our dinner, made salsa picante from scratch, cooked dinner listening to el tri with electricity from a generator out back. picked up p. on a rowboat in a midnight rowboat excursion into the lake. [...]

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MEXIKKKO PT 7: WITCHY TREE

breezy sunset drunk in juchitan native people stared at us a girl took a cell phone picture of me because of my skin and eye color lost j. and just had to ask were the tall white guy went and everyone in town knew- went to the witch village of catemaco at night ghosts over [...]

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MEXIKKKO PT 6: PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC

Leaving Zipolite behind, we chugged our way across the Isthmus through the matriarchal city of Juchitán.

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