Posted: May 5th, 2024 | Filed under: Out Of Town
August 13, 2023

Zócalo/Plaza de la Constitución:

August 14, 2023
View from where we stayed:

Parque Juárez El Llano:

Taco Sireno:

In Situ Mezcalería:

August 15, 2023
Oaxacan-style tacos at Tacos del Carmen:


August 16, 2023
We spent the first week taking language and cooking classes at Instituto Cultural Oaxaca:


Jardín Conzatti:

Hot chocolate at Rito Chocolatería & Tienda:

August 17, 2023
The last day of our cooking classes at Instituto Cultural Oaxaca we made memelas:

August 18, 2023

Templo de Santo Domingo:


Degustación de los 7 Moles Oaxaqueños at Restaurante Coronita:

La Mezcalería:

August 19, 2023
The second half of our stay in Oaxaca was devoted to sightseeing and we started with the beautiful Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca:


Terraza Istmo:

August 20, 2023
Hierve el Agua All-Day Tour to La Rueca Textiles in Teotitlán del Valle, Hierve el Agua, Mitla, El Rey de Matalán in Tlacolula de Matamoros and the Árbol del Tule:









August 21, 2023
Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca:

Taquería Chefinita:

August 22, 2023
Monte Albán All-Day Tour to Monte Albán, Alebrijes Autóctonos in Arrazola, Templo y Exconvento de Santiago Apóstol de Cuilápam and Casa Frida de Mi Corazón in Cuilápam de Guerrero, Alfarería Doña Rosa in San Bartolo Coyotepec and La Soledad back in Oaxaca City:


August 23, 2023
Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca:



Casa Oaxaca El Restaurante:
Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción:

August 24, 2023
Calle Xicoténcatl:

Calle 5 de Mayo/Calle de Armenta y López:



Panteón General:




Estadio Eduardo Vasconcelos:

Parque Recreativo Infantil Bicentenario:

Mercado Benito Juárez:



August 25, 2023

Posted: February 10th, 2024 | Filed under: Out Of Town
February 18, 2023
Landed in time to see the setting sun:

February 19, 2023
World Championship Hoop Dance Contest was happening at the Heard Museum:

February 20, 2023
Burritos at Carolina’s Mexican Food on Mohave Street:


February 21, 2023
Echo Canyon Trail on Camelback Mountain:







February 22, 2023
Musical Instrument Museum:



February 23, 2023
Drove down to Tucson and saw Biosphere 2:




Then walked around the Barrio Viejo neighborhood in Tucson:



February 24, 2023
The main public transit hub in downtown Tucson is named for Linda Ronstadt:

Made a return visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the desert outside Tucson:

Returning to Phoenix, sunset over Interstate 10:

February 25, 2023
La Pasadita Hot Dogs on the west side of Phoenix:

Posted: June 29th, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of Town
January 14, 2023
Drove up during the day and ate dinner in the Seaport District, which has grown a lot since we were there in 2010:

January 15, 2023
Walked the entirety of The Freedom Trail in the cold! Bunker Hill in Charlestown:

USS Constitution:

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in the North End:


Granary Burying Ground:

The trail ends (or begins!) at Boston Common, where the new sculpture The Embrace sits:

Indeed, some angles are weird:


January 16, 2023
Took an MBTA Commuter Rail train to Salem. Yes, that’s Elizabeth Montgomery:

The Salem Witch Trials memorial:


The Satanic Temple (alas, closed Mondays):

Then returned to Boston where we met up in Dorchester, near the James Blake House, dating to 1661, the oldest surviving house in Boston:
