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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-09-29T11:56:19" itemprop="datePublished">September <span>29, 2018</span></time> - <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> - </div> - </header> - <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> - <p>The blue-gray light of the distant dawn filters down the canyons of building to the city streets outside the window. I’ve been awake for hours already, listening to the city. The grinding staccato of diesel engines, the pop and sharp hiss of hydraulic arms raised and lowered, the clatter of metal doors rolling up, the clanging rattle of chains banging against them, shops entered, and the rattle and clang again as the doors close behind the shop keepers.</p> -<p>Later comes the soft hiss of brooms on the sidewalk, the splash of water thrown out a bucket, and the louder hiss of the broom in the soapy water, the jangle of handcart wheels rolling over uneven stone of sidewalks. Last comes the rush of cars, the muted voices of workers emptying trash, and the blue gray light turning to the white of day.</p> -<p>This is no longer the largest city on earth. Last time I was here it was, but that, as my wife regularly reminds me, was a long time ago. Now Chongqing China is three times as large as this. Still, Mexico City is a hell of a city. Larger than any other on this continent. And there is something about here that is more alive than anywhere else on the continent. It is big, loud, overwhelming, incomprehensible. Wonderful in its way. </p> -<p>We arrived yesterday afternoon, made it through customs and caught a cab to our rental apartment. The first thing we did was head out for tacos. Just kidding. The first food we went for was Indian. Corrinne and I have a kind of tradition of eating in immigrant restaurants. Our first meal in Nicaragua was at a Palestinian restaurant. Our favorite meal in Paris was at an Iraqi restaurant. For Mexico City we went Indian. Then we walked down to the zócalo and watched the sun fade away and the blue twilight descend.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was a great end cap to a long day of travel, which was surprisingly smooth all things considered. Our kids are pretty great at entertaining themselves anywhere, using almost nothing, so airports and airplanes were, relatively speaking, pretty much non-stop entertainment. Just the notion that <em>we’re floating above the planet</em> was enough to keep them enthralled for a three hour flight. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dallas airport, leaving on a jet plane photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_112822.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180925_112822_pic66.jpg" alt="dallas airport, waiting on a jet plane photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_112822.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_125244.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180925_125244_pic66.jpg" alt="flying to mexico city. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_125244.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="on the plane to mexico city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>I was a little worried about going through customs, someone saying the wrong thing, being grumpy and throwing a fit, etc, but everyone was fine, we coasted right on through without missing a beat.</p> -<p>I won’t lie, I felt my spirits lift considerably after the rather bored customs official stamped the last of our stack of passports and waved us out of no-man’s-land and into Mexico. I get a giddy feeling every time I leave the United States, a feeling that I’ve somehow managed to survive something, though exactly what is unclear to me. </p> -<p>I don’t want to write some cliche bit about how the United States sucks or what have you. I like the United States, it has its upsides — mostly that nearly everyone we know and love lives there — but one thing that I think universally irks travelers and expats is the smug satisfaction that folks back home have about how “free” they are. If Americans have a blind spot, it’s this. We <em>believe</em> we’re free. </p> -<p>We are not free at all relative to the rest of the world. Oh sure, we have the right to assemble, which is often lacking elsewhere, but in terms of daily life, the United States is the most micromanaged, regulated country I’ve ever been to.</p> -<p>I’ll be honest, it feels good to leave that behind for a while. And that’s all I’m going to say about that.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico_pic66.jpg" alt="Walking the streets of Mexico City photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180927_090630.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180927_090630_pic66.jpg" alt="mural, mexico city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180927_090630.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mural, mexico city, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>We explored Mexico City for a few days, adjusted to city life as opposed to roaming the wilds of the United States, and then, we were done. Or rather we weren’t done, but we were ready to get to something more permanent. We ended up cutting our time in Mexico City a little short and jumping a bus for San Miguel de Allende. 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I've been awake for hours already, listening to the city. The grinding staccato of diesel engines, the pop and sharp hiss of hydraulic arms raised and lowered, the clatter of metal doors rolling up, the clanging rattle of chains banging against them, shops entered, and the rattle and clang again as the doors close behind the shop keepers.
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-Later comes the soft hiss of brooms on the sidewalk, the splash of water thrown out a bucket, and the louder hiss of the broom in the soapy water, the jangle of handcart wheels rolling over uneven stone of sidewalks. Last comes the rush of cars, the muted voices of workers emptying trash, and the blue gray light turning to the white of day.
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-This is no longer the largest city on earth. Last time I was here it was, but that, as my wife regularly reminds me, was a long time ago. Now Chongqing China is three times as large as this. Still, Mexico City is a hell of a city. Larger than any other on this continent. And there is something about here that is more alive than anywhere else on the continent. It is big, loud, overwhelming, incomprehensible. Wonderful in its way.
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-We arrived yesterday afternoon, made it through customs and caught a cab to our rental apartment. The first thing we did was head out for tacos. Just kidding. The first food we went for was Indian. Corrinne and I have a kind of tradition of eating in immigrant restaurants. Our first meal in Nicaragua was at a Palestinian restaurant. Our favorite meal in Paris was at an Iraqi restaurant. For Mexico City we went Indian. Then we walked down to the zócalo and watched the sun fade away and the blue twilight descend.
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-It was a great end cap to a long day of travel, which was surprisingly smooth all things considered. Our kids are pretty great at entertaining themselves anywhere, using almost nothing, so airports and airplanes were, relatively speaking, pretty much non-stop entertainment. Just the notion that *we're floating above the planet* was enough to keep them enthralled for a three hour flight.
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-I won't lie, I felt my spirits lift considerably after the rather bored customs official stamped the last of our stack of passports and waved us out of no-man's-land and into Mexico. I get a giddy feeling every time I leave the United States, a feeling that I've somehow managed to survive something, though exactly what is unclear to me.
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-I don't want to write some cliche bit about how the United States sucks or what have you. I like the United States, it has its upsides -- mostly that nearly everyone we know and love lives there -- but one thing that I think universally irks travelers and expats is the smug satisfaction that folks back home have about how "free" they are. If Americans have a blind spot, it's this. We *believe* we're free.
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-We are not free at all relative to the rest of the world. Oh sure, we have the right to assemble, which is often lacking elsewhere, but in terms of daily life, the United States is the most micromanaged, regulated country I've ever been to.
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-I'll be honest, it feels good to leave that behind for a while. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
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-We explored Mexico City for a few days, adjusted to city life as opposed to roaming the wilds of the United States, and then, we were done. Or rather we weren't done, but we were ready to get to something more permanent. We ended up cutting our time in Mexico City a little short and jumping a bus for San Miguel de Allende. 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Once it cooled down we broke from our usual back roads ways, jumped on the interstate and spent the next two weeks slowly working our way across Kansas, which we really liked, then down through Oklahoma, which we were less fond of, and finally to Dallas to visit family. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving in Kansas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Old hwy 40, Kansas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I ended up on this stretch of road that was labeled old highway 40, but was just off present day I70. Guessing that I70 took over and I40 was built to the south."> - </a> -<figcaption>I ended up on this stretch of road that was labeled old highway 40, but was just off present day I70. Guessing that I70 took over and I40 was built to the south.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>It was about 900 miles in all, which we spread out over two weeks. The first two weeks of September were a wet two weeks in this part of the country. I think we saw the sun maybe two days in that time, and even then, not for long. It was probably the least interesting two weeks of our trip thus far. At least for me. I was either working or driving, which quickly makes Jack a dull boy as it were. I didn’t realize just how busy I had been until I went back and looked for pictures to post and realized I only had a few.</p> -<p>It probably wasn’t a whole lot more exciting for Corrinne and the kids, though they did sneak off into Wichita to a children’s museum once, and the kids made some friends in our favorite weekend stopover, the small town of Ellis Kansas, where we met a lot of really nice people.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cardboard Chinese New Year dragoon. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Chinese New Year dragoon."> - </a> -<figcaption>Chinese New Year dragoon.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cardboard Chinese New Year dragoon. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide.jpg" alt="scooter gang photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>You might be wondering, why did they spend two weeks doing almost nothing, driving through the midwest? </p> -<p>Well, first off, I would say that until we got to Wichita, Kansas is very much the west. It looks like the west, it feels like the west. And then somewhere in there you cross that invisible line, which some say is the 100th meridian, but which I think is far too ephemeral and shifting to pin down that precisely, and the humidity is back, the undergrowth lusher, and you’re in the east again.</p> -<p>But, the real answer to that question requires going back to the very beginning, before we ever had the bus.</p> -<p>One day Corrinne came into my office at our house in Athens and said she thought we should move abroad, to Nicaragua, which we both enjoyed when we spent a couple months there. A friend of ours had moved down there recently and really liked it. At the time the girls were still babies and Elliott hadn’t been born yet. I said sure, let’s move to Nicaragua. I mean why not?</p> -<p>But I’ve always thought the United States, despite its many flaws, is a very beautiful place and I wanted the kids to see it before we left. So I said, okay, let’s move abroad, but first let’s get an old camper and drive around the U.S for a while so the kids can see it. My wife, as I recall, said, I don’t know about that. But I started to do some research on old trailers.</p> -<p>In the process I discovered the bus. Not our bus, not right away anyway, but the Travco more generally, and, well, you know how that ends. But this was just before Elliott was born, Corrinne wasn’t sold on the bus idea yet. It wasn’t until about four months later, we were down in Apalachicola, and one day Corrinne came up from the beach and said, okay, I could travel for a while. About a month later we found the bus for sale and bought it.</p> -<p>The rest of the story is documented here already. The point is though that, for us, traveling around the U.S. was always a temporary precursor to going abroad. </p> -<p>So, after over a year and half of living in the bus we decided the time had come to head abroad for a while. In those 19 months though many things have changed. We’re not going to Nicaragua, which has become decidedly unstable in recent months, but we are storing the bus for a few months and heading down the Mexico. Corrinne’s parents retired to San Miguel de Allende earlier this year and we thought we’d visit and let the presence of loved ones ease the transition a little for the kids. We are, in other words, sticking to what has always been our rough plan<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p> -<p>We could have driven the bus down to Mexico, and someday we might. In fact I’d really like to do the west coast of Mexico in the bus as some point. But since our plan is to stay in one place for a while, bringing the bus didn’t make sense. My brother-in-law’s parents have some land outside Dallas that they said we could store the bus on, so we decided to leave it for a while (many thanks to Terry and Gram for taking care of our baby while we’re gone). No, we’re not done with it yet. I don’t think. Certainly no one wanted to leave it, but different places demand different travel strategies, and the bus was not the best strategy for what we want to do for the next six months. We’ll miss the bus, it still feels like our home, but now it’s time for something different. </p> -<p>Before we caught a flight south though we got to spend a week with family around Dallas, swimming, running some last minutes errands and somehow managing to squeak in some fishing and swimming time out at the lake.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One Halloween my brother-in-l;aw dressed up as cousin Eddie from the vacation series so we recreated the famous "shitter's full" scene with the bus."> - </a> -<figcaption>One Halloween my brother-in-l;aw dressed up as cousin Eddie from the vacation series so we recreated the famous “shitter’s full” scene with the bus.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="belongings photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our life in six boxes. Not pictured: the three medium size bags and two daypack that we brought to Mexico, and cooking stuff in the bus. But otherwise this is it."> - </a> -<figcaption>Our life in six boxes. Not pictured: the three medium size bags and two daypack that we brought to Mexico, and cooking stuff in the bus. But otherwise this is it.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide.jpg" alt="The beach at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The beach at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Cousins."> - </a> -<figcaption>Cousins.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Fishing at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>And then, before we really knew it, we were in the air.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>The idea that we have a plan is completely laughable. What we have is more like a collection of ideas that float around our heads like balloons and every now and then we grab one and float away on it for a while. These ideas are often contradictory and impossible. I think it was Eisenhower who said plans are useless, but planning is essential. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> -</li> -</ol> -</div> - </div> - - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/grassland" rel="prev" title=" Grassland">Grassland</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/09/big-exit" rel="next" title=" Big Exit">Big Exit</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">1 Comment</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3507" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW ELDRIDGE" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>DREW ELDRIDGE</b></span> - <span class="when">October 04, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Thanks for letting us ride on your balloons with you. 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Once it cooled down we broke from our usual back roads ways, jumped on the interstate and spent the next two weeks slowly working our way across Kansas, which we really liked, then down through Oklahoma, which we were less fond of, and finally to Dallas to visit family.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg" id="image-1681" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg" id="image-1680" class="picwide caption" />
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-It was about 900 miles in all, which we spread out over two weeks. The first two weeks of September were a wet two weeks in this part of the country. I think we saw the sun maybe two days in that time, and even then, not for long. It was probably the least interesting two weeks of our trip thus far. At least for me. I was either working or driving, which quickly makes Jack a dull boy as it were. I didn't realize just how busy I had been until I went back and looked for pictures to post and realized I only had a few.
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-It probably wasn't a whole lot more exciting for Corrinne and the kids, though they did sneak off into Wichita to a children's museum once, and the kids made some friends in our favorite weekend stopover, the small town of Ellis Kansas, where we met a lot of really nice people.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg" id="image-1682" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg" id="image-1683" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1684" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1685" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1686" class="picwide" />
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-You might be wondering, why did they spend two weeks doing almost nothing, driving through the midwest?
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-Well, first off, I would say that until we got to Wichita, Kansas is very much the west. It looks like the west, it feels like the west. And then somewhere in there you cross that invisible line, which some say is the 100th meridian, but which I think is far too ephemeral and shifting to pin down that precisely, and the humidity is back, the undergrowth lusher, and you're in the east again.
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-But, the real answer to that question requires going back to the very beginning, before we ever had the bus.
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-One day Corrinne came into my office at our house in Athens and said she thought we should move abroad, to Nicaragua, which we both enjoyed when we spent a couple months there. A friend of ours had moved down there recently and really liked it. At the time the girls were still babies and Elliott hadn't been born yet. I said sure, let's move to Nicaragua. I mean why not?
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-But I've always thought the United States, despite its many flaws, is a very beautiful place and I wanted the kids to see it before we left. So I said, okay, let's move abroad, but first let's get an old camper and drive around the U.S for a while so the kids can see it. My wife, as I recall, said, I don't know about that. But I started to do some research on old trailers.
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-In the process I discovered the bus. Not our bus, not right away anyway, but the Travco more generally, and, well, you know how that ends. But this was just before Elliott was born, Corrinne wasn't sold on the bus idea yet. It wasn't until about four months later, we were down in Apalachicola, and one day Corrinne came up from the beach and said, okay, I could travel for a while. About a month later we found the bus for sale and bought it.
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-The rest of the story is documented here already. The point is though that, for us, traveling around the U.S. was always a temporary precursor to going abroad.
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-So, after over a year and half of living in the bus we decided the time had come to head abroad for a while. In those 19 months though many things have changed. We're not going to Nicaragua, which has become decidedly unstable in recent months, but we are storing the bus for a few months and heading down the Mexico. Corrinne's parents retired to San Miguel de Allende earlier this year and we thought we'd visit and let the presence of loved ones ease the transition a little for the kids. We are, in other words, sticking to what has always been our rough plan[^1].
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-We could have driven the bus down to Mexico, and someday we might. In fact I'd really like to do the west coast of Mexico in the bus as some point. But since our plan is to stay in one place for a while, bringing the bus didn't make sense. My brother-in-law's parents have some land outside Dallas that they said we could store the bus on, so we decided to leave it for a while (many thanks to Terry and Gram for taking care of our baby while we're gone). No, we're not done with it yet. I don't think. Certainly no one wanted to leave it, but different places demand different travel strategies, and the bus was not the best strategy for what we want to do for the next six months. We'll miss the bus, it still feels like our home, but now it's time for something different.
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-Before we caught a flight south though we got to spend a week with family around Dallas, swimming, running some last minutes errands and somehow managing to squeak in some fishing and swimming time out at the lake.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg" id="image-1688" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas.jpg" id="image-1689" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas.jpg" id="image-1690" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg" id="image-1691" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg" id="image-1692" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg" id="image-1696" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg" id="image-1693" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg" id="image-1694" class="picwide" />
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-And then, before we really knew it, we were in the air.
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-[^1]: The idea that we have a plan is completely laughable. What we have is more like a collection of ideas that float around our heads like balloons and every now and then we grab one and float away on it for a while. These ideas are often contradictory and impossible. I think it was Eisenhower who said plans are useless, but planning is essential. |