Two Mexican Adventures

Bits of my past are reflected in the two websites I've visited lately.

I'm a Stanford graduate and the alumni newsletter often has interesting articles. But I must admit I was surprised to come across one about a group riding bicycles across the state of Jalisco, where I live. By the time I read the article, they were long gone, but still I found this an encouraging point of view on what some young people are doing: an ecologically-minded rock and roll band bicycling through Mexico!

As a long-time Quaker, I'm on the email list of the American Friends Service Committee, which for almost seventy years has done a summer work camp in Mexico. This year, it's in the Sierra Norte de Puebla. This link was written before the project began but gives you an idea of what they do:

http://www.afsc.org/latinamerica/int/mexicosummer.htm 

And there are photos here of what's been going on this year.

http://picasaweb.google.com/MexicoSummer/MexicoSummerProject2008

I know that most of my readers are not of an age to be candidates for this project, but maybe you have family members or young adult friends who might be.

In any case, I do like reading about young people taking on such worthwhile projects!