It’s not proper IPA spelling, but hopefully Christine the linguistics Masters degree holder will forgive me. It’s been quite awhile since the last post, and instead of addressing things consecutively as I usually do, I’ll handle the food of the Oaxacan region first. On New Year’s Eve, Christine and I went out from Casa Giron […]

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We ate our way around some of Oaxaca’s plentiful taquerias and food stands. Second breakfast (after the omlettes served by Concepcion) was at Oaxaca’s number one rated restaurant, a bakery conveniently located only a couple blocks from Casa Giron. The owners were both there, two young Mexican men who spoke perfect English and made us […]

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Two trips to the Spanish-speaking world in one year! When Christine suggested it a couple months ago as our post-Christmas vacation, she said she could always use the language practice, and I agreed on the account that I could always eat more cheap tacos (I’m not kidding, that probably was my first thought). After spending […]

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Seems like only yesterday I was writing about being in this show, Two Diabetics, but the video’s finally up on Youtube! And embedded below, for your convenience.

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Our last flight home, from Houston back to Milwaukee (we didn’t leave the airport this time, with only an hour layover) has about an hour left in it, and so I’ll try to briefly summarize some of the interesting facets of Roatan, Honduras – probably one of *the* most heavily touristed areas we’ve ever visited […]

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It’s going to be hard leaving the tranquil jungle of La Fortuna, our hotel on Lake Atitlan, behind tomorrow. We really lucked out with Christine finding them on Trip Advisor and them having a few rooms available at low season prices. I’m sitting on the porch of one of their bungalows right now, looking into […]

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