Archive for the ‘Queretaro’ Category
April 17, 2005 — It was the sixties, 1966 to be exact. My boyfriend and I had been saving our money for months and I had dropped out of graduate school in Anthropology for the adventure we planned. Finally we left Berzerkeley behind us, crossed the US, took a Yugoslavian freighter to Spain, and settled [...]
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April 24, 2005 — As we were strolling across the plaza in Bernal, the small town in central Mexico where we are living, early this afternoon, the sound of an Andean flute was nearby. Under one of the trees, in deep shade, we saw that a three-person musical group had set up and was playing. [...]
April 12, 2005 — I enjoy playing around in Photoshop Elements, a simpler version of Photoshop, and the other day I made this collection of photos. Many of them have already been up here. The rock is La Peña, the stunning backdrop to life here. The photo where it’s red was at sunrise, and the [...]
April 5, 2005 — It was very busy here, from the Equinox celebration through Easter and beyond. Mexican tourists flocked to Bernal:
Here’s a view of the charming central plaza, called the jardin, which Kelly took in a quiet moment from upstairs in one of the buildings.
Our friends the Estrella family from Tequisquiapan, about whom I’ve [...]
March 2, 2005 – Today Rob, an American friend who has lived in Queretaro, took us around this clean and interesting city, which has around a million in population. It’s known as a clean city, and where we went sure was. Virtually no trash, and we saw no street dogs.
First we went to the workshop [...]
February 19, 2005 – Bernal is a town of some 5,000 people, located in the state of Queretaro and about an hour away from the city of that name. There’s a new international airport going in roughly midway between the two places.
We were here in Bernal two years ago, and it was one of the [...]
