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these kids were mostly in costume and screaming their heads off and walking through town with torches. this is what happens when halloween meets the day of the dead.
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Friday, October 27, 2006
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did i mention that rob and i had to sleep in one bed? now i feel better about it.
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this stuff was all over mexico. it's amazing the places where life can take hold.
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this crappy fuzzy picture was about the about the last one i took before my horse slipped and went down as we got on that street up there. we were both fine, but decided to walk the rest of the block back to where we all dismounted and said goodbyes.
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this guide was from Spain. he was a horse jumper? a jump horse rider? whatever the hell that's called. he'd moved to mexico pretty recently after marrying a girl from out here.
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we got back to town and had to take some pretty steep cobblestone streets, which is pretty fucking scary when you are doing it on a horse with slippery metal shod hooves.
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we stopped for a beer. i don't think it counts as drinking and driving as long as the horse stays sober.
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there is no doubt who was in controll in that partnership.
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rob's nag kept darting off the path to rip up stalks of corn to munch and then trotting back to its place in line. mine did the same, only she didn't care about her place in line as much.
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this old codger showed up to tell us about the mines, saying her used to work in them. we later found out that his story used to be that his father worked in them.
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most of the mines were long narrow tunnels. then there was this pit.
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the entrance to a very small opening to a very deep mine shaft. i wondered how many animal corpses there probably are at the bottom. pretty scary.
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apparently this was an air shaft to feed the fires that were used to melt the metals out of the rocks. our guides didn't really know anything about this stuff.
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rob wanted to ride a donkey. this was the best they could do.
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she chased the goats, and later attacked a dog that was barking at us. kick ass.
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the guide was from spain. rob is from poland. nadia's sister is from missouri.
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this dog belonged to one of the guides, and was pretty kick-ass. i guess i would be too if i was a dog and this was my job.
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mexico is kind of weird like this.
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the guidebook goes on and on about some church that has never been completed in town and completely fails to mention this awesome finished one. i guess maybe the people who wrote it must have paid better attention to the sign over the door that says "no entrada."
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the bride and groom pre-ride
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Mineral de Pozos is basically a ghost town. well, it's not really, but that's what the expat gringos who've set up shop here like to say. the thing is, back when mining was booming in this town, there were almost 80,000 inhabitants. that was over 80 years ago though and now there are only a few thousand inhabitants.
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mexico is kind of weird like this.
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aside from the bed shortage and two really shitty night of sleep, the room was actually pretty cool. it had four tiny little floors, and i almost died climbing around between them.
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after 13 hours on the road, from chachalacas on the gulf, through mountains and desert and mexico city, we arrived in pozos at about one in the morning and found out that we would be sleeping in a room with only one bed. and this was it.