Mexico: gods of wind and rain

[robheinsoo]

This week we had a great vacation in central Mexico with our friends Jorge and Lynn, who recently moved to Leon for work building environmentally advanced homes. They'd enjoyed 9 months of sunlight before our visit. Then Hurricane Alex hit the coast. Central Mexico, 6000 feet up, had less to fear from flooding, but we saw nothing but rain for a

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[kent_allard_jr]

Sounds wonderful! How were the guides at Plazuelas? The guide at Monte Alban told us all sorts of nonsense about Atlantis, Mixtecs being monotheists and so forth. (Great site, and I loved Oaxaca in general, but I'd prefer it if they didn't make stuff up.)

[robheinsoo]

The guide at Plazuelas was disinterested but well-trained. I should do a travel-writeup, since there were interesting wrinkles to each of the sites. // Did you think that the guide at Monte Alban was taking-the-piss or more or less believed the nonsense?

[richgreen01]

We went to Guanajuato back in 1996 when we did a big trip travelling through Mexico, Central & South America. I remember the Rivera museum and also the gruesome mummy museum.

Didn't go to Plazuelas though - looks amazing!

[robheinsoo]

Plazuelas, and the other excellent site whose name I'm forgetting at the moment, have been developed and restored in the last few years. There wouldn't have been much to see when you did your swing through the area. An interesting case of an area getting serious about its archeological heritage, change is underway.