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It occurred to me as we went walking in downtown Tlaxcala that much of what we see is like it was when I was a child and went downtown in our small Wisconsin city so many years ago.  It was the thing to do on a Saturday morning, to go downtown, get a coke and French fries, see friends, and possibly a movie as well. 

            As were were walking we noticed the vast amounts of large shoe stores.  Many were next door to each other creating much competition for each other.  There were so many styles, sizes, colors and infinite varieties of shoes it was just mind boggling to think of which one to choose.   We haven’t seen this on main street USA in many years.  I remember the “Red Goose” and “Poll Parrot” shoe stores of my youth.  As a young women, I would look in the window and think how cute they were and want the latest styles. Many times, they didn’t have them in my size.   Here they have every size from infant to Large in the window.  It is kind of fun to look ,see, and laugh at how impossible it must be to walk in some of those.   The colors are also fun.  Shoes for men in bright Blue, Pink, Red and whatever you have the nerve to wear.  Women’s shoes that are so high that you are literally walking on your toes. I personally can’t see how the women walk on these cobblestone streets and uneven sidewalks in them, but they do and don’t seem to trip as frequently as I do in my “sensible” shoes.

        There are also the specialty shops.  Dress shops for her.  Men’s shops for him, and they are still displaying ties.  Ties of every design and colors matching shirts, pants and suits.  There are shops for just hats, jeans, infant clothing shops.  There shops for just ribbon, lace, buttons.  Shops for just paper and paper design crafts and posters.  Shops for just gift wrapping.  Shops for just handbags and costume jewelry.  Shops just for perfumes and colognes.  Leather only shops with everything from wallets to belts to jackets and pants of Leather. There are shops for decorative tile and glassware.  Flower shops, music shops, fabric shops, and an endless amount of shops for trades like plumbing, electric, keys, beauty and barber shops.   There are shops for just chicken either to take home and cook or roasted and ready to eat.  There are only hallway wide restaurant and carry out shops.  There large full meal/menu restaurants with tablecloths and dining chairs and service ready the minute you step in  for a meal.   That in itself is another wonderful adventure called comida corrida.  I just say here it is great food and come hungry because it is a lot of food as well.

            We marvel at how many times people here tell us they see us walking here or there.  They frequently ask us with surprise why we aren’t driving.  After all we are Americans.  We of course would miss all this type of sightseeing if we were driving.  We wouldn’t see the delightful little children who just stare at us because we are different and then give us one of those great big, wide eyed smiles that says it all.  Because we walk so much, we see the workmen who are building many of the new projects and they yell “Buenas Dias” to us as we pass and we greet them with a wave and go on our way. When someone else sees us and again says “Benvenidos” to us.   If we are confused as to our way,  within minutes, someone is asking to help us find what we are looking for.  In the past , before our Spanish got better, they might even walk us to exactly where we are wanting to go.  I don’t think I can remember the last time anything like this happened to us in the USA.

            As I write this Steve has gone “downtown” on his own mission with absolutely no concern about his safety.  We discussed where we will walk later on today.  Wherever we go, it is probably certain we will end up “downtown” sitting for a little while in the Zocolo, watching the children chase the pigeons and having some wonderful, relaxed, quiet time, just enjoying the slowness of life here and remembering back at how it used to be in the USA.

Patricia Sardeson, AKA, MsSardo@Yahoo.com, reporting from Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, as the sidekick of the Genuine-Tourist, Stephen Sardeson.

http://roadtoveracruz.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/the-texolo-waterfall/

I also made a video of our day trip and posted it on YOUTUBE which can be seen at –

Stephen, Genuine-Tourist, reporting from Baraboo, WI, USA
]]> http://visitxalapa.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/texolo-cascada/feed/ 0 silversard http://visitxalapa.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/santa-anna-his-home-lencero/ http://visitxalapa.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/santa-anna-his-home-lencero/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:01:33 +0000 silversard http://visitxalapa.wordpress.com/?p=238 ]]> Santa Anna’s main home seems to have been just outside of Xalapa and is a wonderful place to visit when in the area.  Unfortunately, the chapel was closed for restoration work when we visited last February, but the main house and the grounds were lovely.  Now we were told the house was fairly sparsely furnished when Santa Anna was in residence, probably because he “partied” everything away and “gambled” heavily (all with other people’s money), but the view from the house was marvelous.  However, I thought you readers might be interested in the view of the BACK of the house.

Lencero -- Santa Anna

 Now, I know this post is filed under “One photo/video,” but I thought I would substitute a photo for “the video” and show you the unique post of his original front gate which you can see here.

Front Gate Post of Lencero

 For more delightful information about Santa Anna AND his connection to Illinois, USA, go to the following links –

http://mexico-mystic.blogspot.com/ 

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18808

Stephen — http://www.Genuine-Tourist.com– reporting from Baraboo, WI, USA

 

 

We wonder if it is now under construction?  finished? ready for carnival next February?

 Does anyone have any photos of it?

The village of Coyolillo did a great job with carnival.  Here is a video of two their young people “polka” dancing

Stephen – http://www.Genuine-Tourist.com – reporting from Baraboo, WI, USA

Why don’t you take a peek into the house with me and catch a few pieces of their fine performance.

And here is another look.

We enjoyed the evening immensely and, of course, bought their CD entitled, “Viva Veracruz.” 

The Group Sones de Veracruz

David Rubio Glavan, an artist of Jarocho music and center is the above photo, can be contacted at — davidrubio33@hotmail.com.   

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Thanks for checking in on this blog,

Stephen, Genuine-Tourist.com, reporting from Baraboo, USA,

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way . . .  to Tlaxcala, Xalapa, and Veracruz    .”

Yes, we are returning to Tlaxcala and Veracruz between January 22nd and April 30th.  We plan to start by getting a brief two day tour of Mexico City by our esteemed guide, Robert Cox, the Mexico-Mystic,  –

 http://mexico-mystic.blogspot.com/2008/09/mexico-mystic.html. 

Then we will travel to Tlaxcala for several weeks/months stay.  At some point, we will visit the beaches north of Veracruz and travel through Xalapa one or two times on route, I figure. 

We had planned to be in Tlaxcala this October and November (right now ;-(   However, air plane tickets were toooo high, so we stayed home and spent the alleged money on a new roof for our house and some carpet for our basement.  Since then, the price of plane tickets have dropped, so we booked flights on Northwest Airlines via Detroit to Mexico City. 

Now, we booked on Northwest at some peril to ourselves because one of my relatives is a former striking mechanic with Northwest Airlines and all family members are supposed to avoid flying with them.  We are not only supposed to refrain from flying with Northwest, out of respect for his lost job, but also because he doesn’t think the planes will stay in the air with only 300 mechanics instead of the usual 3,000!.

Oh well, I guess the pocketbook always gets one’s vote, and they were the cheapest.  And, yesterday, gas went below $3.00 a gallon in southern Wisconsin, although it is still higher in our town than other places.

I am trying to decide whether to bring my computer with me on the trip.  When I bring it, I am able to post on blogs directly “from the field,” but it is a heavy load, and I hear now about some possible problems at the border with laptops.  Last time my individual total luggage weighed almost 100 lbs ;-(    This time I would like to keep it under 50 lbs total, BUT my packed laptop alone is almost 20 labs ;-(

If you haven’t notice, I have posted a LOT of video about southern Mexico on YouTube.  You can see it (and even ME) by going to – 

http://ca.youtube.com/results?search_query=Silversard&search_type=&aq=f

So, even In the “best of times and the worst of times” we plan to follow our “addiction” cravings and return to Mexico this winter.  We did purchase round trip tickets so we can get back to USA even if the economy further melts down, but then I don’t think I would mind being stranded in Mexico either

Stephen, Genuine-Tourist, reporting from Baraboo, WI, USA