by the by...

i forgot to mention that i lost my phone in san miguel, which had these really amazing photos of hurricane Ike from just a few miles away, as we were driving pretty much along the southernmost edge. They were incredible, with double rainbows and rays of light coming through thick clouds, they were really something to look at. 

thank god they found my phone in san miguel and are awesome enough to give it back. so i'll post those pictures at some point, once i learn how to post pictures here on blogger...

Oaxaca

Ok, so I know that I have been a little bit out of the loop for a while, but I never promised to write once  a week. I do feel bad for kind of bitching at this other dude who has a blog, for not writing in it for more that 5 days... That's just how I roll...

So, here's the news for the past 3 weeks (or so):

I went to San Diego last week to help my mom move to Mexico. I thought we might have fun and make a good road trip out of it... thought.  We really just ended up bitching at each other most of the time. I think my mom is bipolar, cause I swear to you, dear reader, that there was a point in which I put a cd on to listen to in the car, and my mom starts whistling along. About 30 seconds later, during the very same song, she starting screaming hysterically to ''turn that goddam shit off!!!!'' (I must insert here, that I swear to god my mom is not white trash, she can just get a little out of character sometimes). 

We drove from San Diego until some part of Arizona, I don't really remember, honestly, and then stopped to sleep. The from Arizona to Texas, and during that little stretch of the road is when things started to really suck. 

I was driving at one point and all of a sudden, half of the molding around the windshield flies off the car. Then the other half starts to go, but thankfully, we were able to grab it before it was lost in the desert somewhere in Arizona. So we start to call around local parts shops and such to find a piece to replace this molding and get directed to a junkyard in Arizona, not far off of the highway. We go and see, and they don't have it. We are getting back onto the highway when we decide to stop and have something to eat or get gas or something. So, we're pulling out of the gas station and we hear this strange sound coming from the back of the car, like we're running over a parking lot bush of some sort. I get out to check and, god would have it no other way than for us to have run over 2 inch thorns. Not knowing what they were, and admitedly, stupidly, I pull them out of the tire. Now we have a flat tire and a broken molding from the windshield. 

I'm not even going to go into the rest of our problems from the trip, lets just say it kinda sucked. 

We ended up in San Miguel, Mom's new home, and the minute we got there I went into town to go and find some other people to hang out with. I had lunch, had some beers, found my ex boss, and made an appointment to go and talk to him about this trip that I want to make to Oaxaca. 

Its a culinary tour through oaxaca, where we will eat oaxacan food, learn to cook it, se oaxacan people and beaches, and just plain hang out. I talked to my boss, and he said that he is interested in renting me the hotel and helping me do that, so i am pretty ecstatic about that. I even learned to use excel and make a spreadsheet of all of the costs and people coming along...

I haven't cooked in ages, so don't look here for recipes, cause I ain't got none. 

ps. if any one is interested in the oaxaca trip, please let me know, I can send you more info about it by way of email.