The Some Birds
The title is in honor of my good friends and the great times visiting them, and even helping them with a work event. The tequila and movie-going were fantastic, but I also had a good time working at the city park where they were assigned and trying to wrangle group after group of teenagers to […]
A new perspective
After visiting the place many times over roughly a year and a half and climbing there for nearly as long, the one thing that was missing from my Bernal experience was actually climbing up the whole damn thing. Well check that off my list in a most pleasant way. We picked one of the classic […]
Take the good with the smoky
And other lessons being learned in the stove project. We are in the monitoring and evaluation phase doing a final round of surveys to try to quantify fuel savings after a few months with the efficient wood-burning stoves. Since the families typically only buy wood once or twice a year, we switched to measuring wood […]
Marvelous Mexican Mountains – Malinche
If only that title was also a palindrome, that would be like infinity in word-nerd points. However, even without a perfect nerd score, it was wonderful to get back to the mountains with a little light mountaineering and an intense hiking day. We started a little after 9am and made it to the top in […]
That’s quite a view you have there
Nothing like an active volcano to really make the workday more interesting, that, and getting to work outside for a day.
Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.
You are just going up, one step at a time. Beautiful day up, on, and down Malinche. Full report coming soon.
I am also thankful for…
… wonderful bread from the best bakery in town that I get to take on a visit to see friends.
The first thing I am thankful for…
…is good coffee, first thing in the morning. Donuts don’t hurt either, but aren’t required.
Yawn, Snub, and Sigh
These hipster city dogs are so disaffected. You can force them to lay down in line, but you can’t make them like it. Needless to say, Inspector Wigglesworth is not impressed. He has more pressing matters to attend to.
Where not to climb
Everything looked good until the rope started to bump the wasp nest on the way down from the anchor. Guess that is an active nest after all… I didn’t have the big lens with me, but the growing swarm of wasps was quite evident, and they seemed agitated. Good thing there are plenty of other […]
Pinal de Amoles and one Puente de Dios
It was really hard to narrow down the 200-odd pictures I took last weekend down to the just-under 40 that I am showing below. The RÃo Escanela near Pinal de Amoles in the Sierra Gorda de Querétaro turns out to be just as beautiful as the soon-to-be off-limits Huasteca region in San Luis PotosÃ. I […]
Beautiful and fun
No, no, I’m not talking about myself, like always, but instead the river, canyon and waterfalls at the RÃo Escanela near Pinal de Amoles. Saturday was a perfect day for a hike in and besides the river. I didn’t wear the best clothes for swimming, but that didn’t matter when we got to the real […]