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: