{"id":441,"date":"2019-10-20T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russiannotes.com\/mashaholl\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-01-15T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:51:03","slug":"a-lighting-trip-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/a-lighting-trip-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lighting Trip to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca Plaza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This fall semester was interrupted by a weekend trip to Mexico. It was too short for all the fun we had. I didn’t take enough pictures. I didn’t visit enough markets or museums. I didn’t get to see pyramids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’m still dreaming of the colors of Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the food. I didn’t take pictures of the food, either, so I’ll have to go back and eat more and make sure I take pictures of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to San Antonio wasn’t easy. Not because San Antonio is bland, or boring, and I do like my job and where I live, but the trip to Mexico was magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t every vacation? I realized I hand’t traveled internationally in years, and that in itself was exciting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention that I found myself dunked into a foreign-language environment! <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sure, I can read Spanish (I’ll remember to take a pocket dictionary next time or upload one to my phone, because the words I missed seemed to be crucial), and at least I can tell if people are addressing me and I can ask where the bathroom is… But the particular focus required to stitch together what you hear in a not-well-known and unfamiliar language is quite an exercise… And I found that I had missed its like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did manage to do a little bit of touristing in Cuernavaca, but most of our attention was on the practical matters of a wedding… Picking foods, colors, making logistics decisions… More people to meet, more fun to be had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A whole new cuisine (more like a collection of cuisines) to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the most wonderful guides for my explorations and the most gracious of hosts. I would have been lost without them, and I’m grateful not only for their warm hospitality, but for their generous sharing of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll can’t wait to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This fall semester was interrupted by a weekend trip to Mexico. It was too short for all the fun we had. I didn’t take enough pictures. I didn’t visit enough markets or museums. I didn’t get to see pyramids. But I’m still dreaming of the colors of Mexico. And the food. I didn’t take pictures… Read More »A Lighting Trip to Mexico<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-mexico","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottercreations.org\/MH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}