blogging machine

another day, another blog post. this is evidence of what happens when i am traipsing around mexico with my internet-loving boyfriend.

this installment comes from guanajuato, home of vicente fox and the birthplace of diego rivera. it is an unbelievably picturesque town about 5 hours north of mexico city. we hopped on a bus today at 10:30 and got in a couple of hours ago. we dumped our stuff in a huge but dingy hotel room and have since been exploring the nooks and crannies of this beautiful little spot in the mountains of central mexico. it didn't take long for that exploring to lead us to an 8 peso per hour internet spot. the best part of this whole excursion is that my dreams of hot, sunny weather are coming true right before my eyes. when we arrived, it must have been in the low 80s. my body has rarely experienced such warmth in the past 3 months, and good god, it's doing the trick. the high altitude means it's cooling down quickly as we head into the evening hours, but we're hoping to enjoy a glass of wine or a cup of tequila (brendan was happily initiated to mexico's national liquor, drunken straight, when we were out with jennifer and miguel last night) on a sunny patio somewhere.

the trip up was really pretty, though the blaring sounds of a dubbed boxing movie (cinderella man) followed by a subtitled movie about nascar (something horrible with a name not worth remembering, starring sylvester stallone) took away from the scenery a bit. as did the group of teenage boys sitting behind us, who mainly amused themselves by talking loudly and burping just as loudly. i was prepared for it to devolve into farting contests, but fortunately we never got there. so we got to see a bit of the rural parts of the country, with lots of corn fields and plenty of calderón signs. a reminder of the news from yesterday that calderón was declared the official victor in the presidential election. we all saw it coming, though what remains to be seen is what lopez obrador does about the tent cities all over mexico city, which continue to snag traffic, and obviously - at this point - won't result in the vote by vote recount he and his supporters were demanding. if nothing else, it has been an interesting summer. as i said to jennifer last night, when i was preparing myself for my mexican adventure in early june i was excited to see what being here for a presidential election would hold in store. little did i know that it may well be the beginnings of the 21st century's mexican revolution.

brendan is done at this computer, and has wandered off to take photos of this picture-perfect town, so i suppose i should follow suit.

i'm now officially into my last week here... more on that and much else later.