One day and a bottle of tequila later, we are sitting in an italian coffee shop in San Cristobal, Chiapas. I am sipping on an Americana and Linda a camomile tea. She is still sick and the tequila probably didn’t help. Last night, we sat and talked with two French guys at the hostel about [...]
We started off our day by trying to find the place where the Zapatistas meet. Oh, I forgot to tell you why we are here. Linda is working on her Master’s Thesis about the women of the Zapatista revolutionary movement (EZLN). Anyway, we walked for many blocks and came upon the place we thought it [...]
So far we have visited three cities in Mexico: Mexico City, Tuxtla Gutierrez, and San Cristobal de las Casas. Although we did not spend much time in Mexico City and only spent a day in Tuxtla Gutierrez, I knew as soon as we drove into San Cristobal that I was going to love it here. [...]
We left Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas at noon via bus and arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas around 1:30PM. We ran into the first Americans we have seen since we left L.A. on Saturday. We spoke with them briefly just for the sake of speaking the same language. Then, it was off to our hotel [...]