Mexico 2006

"No puedes pasar."

 

 

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Allyson reading on the bus

Bus pirate

Nice try, Allyson

 

 

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Girl playing with pigeons in Guadalajara

Girl on a leash in Guadalajara

A church in Guadalajara

 

 

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The old governor's palace

Enormous, dramatic murals inside the governor's palace

 

 

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No tocar

Having a beer in Guadalajara

Our hotel in Guadalajara, the Hamilton... or is it the Haminton

 

 

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Roof dog

In Puerto Vallarta, waiting for our boat to Yelapa

 

 

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The town of Yelapa

Our palapa in Yelapa

Our palapa-mates: Marty, Kelle, and Emet

 

 

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Our other palapa-mate, Nanu

The view from our front porch

The same view at sunset

 

 

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Lizards!

 

 

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Walking on the path to town, mostly likely to buy ice cream

Allyson enjoying a Negra Modelo

 

 

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A typical night in Yelapa: beer and dice over candlelight

Marty and Kelle cooking

Hanging laundry to dry

 

 

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Our shower: a nozzle mounted on a tree 

A crab passing through the palapa

The beach right next to our palapa

 

 

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Pictures of people reading

 

 

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Seconds before I got peed on 

The beautiful black bean meal that Kelle cooked

The burger meat that Marty stepped on

 

 

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Hiking barefoot to a waterfall

As close to the waterfall as I brought my camera

Emet jumping off of a rock

 

 

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Lunch on the river

Me looking scary

Allyson looking scary

 

 

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A better picture of me

A dog eating spilled eggs

A chick I met in Yelapa

 

 

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A local boy with a stick

Street construction in Yelapa

Pelicans

 

 

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Kids fishing

The pufferfish they caught

 

 

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The picture where everyone looks terrible

Kelle redeems herself with a pretty smile

Marty doesn't

 

 

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 Even Nanu gets an ugly picture

Chris reading Glamour magazine...

Trying to explain himself

 

 

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Emet swinging fire balls around on chains

 

 

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Sunsets in Yelapa

 

 

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Hiding to scare Tim

Marty and Kelle returning from snorkeling

Nanu on a rock

 

 

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At a waterfall near town

Above the same waterfall

 

 

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The view from above the waterfall

Me, looking like an explorer

Me, looking like... a goofball

 

 

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Allyson looking cute, as always

A palm tree with a parasitic tree wrapped around it

The main beach in Yelapa

 

 

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Marty learning to use the didgeridoo that Bryce made

Old and new

Leaving Yelapa

 

 

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A church from the bus

Sauza spelled out in blue agave plants

Me, looking sharp on the bus

 

 

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They gave us a room with three beds in Guadalajara, so we made a super bed

The beautiful town of Guanajuato

Allyson and I above Guanajuato

 

 

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Our comfortable apartment in Guanajuato

One of many churches in Guanajuato

Mariachis

 

 

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More churches

 

 

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In Guanajuato, if a family fails to keep up with payments for a gravesite, the body is exhmued.  If the specimen is well-preserved, it is put into a museum.

 

 

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Allyson smiling next to corpses

"The smallest mummy in the world"

This one was very well preserved

 

 

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A dead baby

Posing with corpses

 

 

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The graveyard that the mummies came from

 

 

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More pictures of churches

 

 

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A guy painting figurines in a church

A giant statue of a revolutionary hero above Guanajuato

Enjoying a Bohemia

 

 

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Guanajuato at night

At night, from above

Wine and cheese on the terrace

 

 

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Cooking our steak dinner... wait a minute, that doesn't look like steak

The main theater in Guanajuato

The steps of the theater

 

 

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Inside the theater

 

 

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Mayan dancers in the streets of Guanajuato

 

 

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More street performers

The Alhondiga, the building where the Mexican revolution started

 

 

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A mural at the Alhondiga

Ancient indian art at the Alhondiga museum

 

 

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A church in San Miguel de Allende

Allyson in San Miguel

 

 

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Allyson upset after we paid 100 pesos get dropped off 5 miles outside of San Miguel on the side of the highway with eighteen dollars in our pocket.  I just wanted to see the hot springs!

 

 

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Back in San Miguel.  See Allyson, I told you everything would turn out fine.

Sick in bed in Guanajuato

The giant market in Guanajuato

 

 

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At bus stations on the way home

A fence at the border

 

 

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HOME AT LAST!

 

 

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