Making yourself at home
steph This week we are in Mexico City, and we were extremely fortunate enough to find a CouchSurfing host who is A) dog-friendly (he has five!), B) has a parking spot…
Street photos from Mexico
jbuhler As some of you know, I like to take photos in the street. I’m posting a photo a day in my photoblog, Water Molotov, but I figured I’d put a…
Full circle in GTO
I never wrote anything about Guanajuato, which I found to be a perfectly lovely town, which we entered via a network of underground tunnels, some of which used to be…
Pop-up parade
Juan and I have had some great luck with timing this past week. In addition to the Balloon Festival and the Lucha Libre fight, we happened to spend a night…
Three timelapses with balloons
This is pretty much the whole first day of the balloon festival. I put my little Pentax compact on top of a sign and set it to take a photo…
BEST WEEK EVER
This was a week of many firsts. I went to my first hot-air balloon festival! We got here mostly by chance. We hadn’t planned to go to Léon, but Juan…
Blessings
Walking one early morning around Guanajuato, we run into this scene. This couple had made an appointment to have the priest bless their new car. He was very thorough, sprinkling…
Insta-van
I haven’t been using Instagram as much since I don’t have phone service and have been carrying Juan’s little Lumix everywhere. But sometimes I reach for my iPhone, and here…