Comments on: July 20th http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/ Travel Reports and Iconoflatulence Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: BillieS http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-859 BillieS Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:05:04 +0000 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-859 Yes, we have been to Xalapa...just for a few days. Also to Xico, Cuitzilan and a number of towns in that area. I worked on photographing the 16th century churches in Mexico. So as I say, we spent a short time in Veracruz area but mostly working out of Merida, Puebla, and Oaxaca. <br/><br/>Yucatan is HOT. I can remember walking out of one of the churches wet to the skin with sweat. We would get back to our hotel room and lay naked on the bed with the window AC cranked as high as we could get it. And we tried never to go there from March to October. <br/><br/>I'll be following your adventures in Xalapa.<br/>Billie Yes, we have been to Xalapa…just for a few days. Also to Xico, Cuitzilan and a number of towns in that area. I worked on photographing the 16th century churches in Mexico. So as I say, we spent a short time in Veracruz area but mostly working out of Merida, Puebla, and Oaxaca.

Yucatan is HOT. I can remember walking out of one of the churches wet to the skin with sweat. We would get back to our hotel room and lay naked on the bed with the window AC cranked as high as we could get it. And we tried never to go there from March to October.

I’ll be following your adventures in Xalapa.
Billie

]]> By: You Know Me http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-857 You Know Me Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:53:21 +0000 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-857 Hey Billie,<br/><br/>Nice to hear from you.<br/><br/>I am at the moment in my apartment in Merida, to which I have just returned a couple hours ago. However, I have rented a dump of an apartment in Xalapa in which I deposited my stuff I had in storage and to which I plan to move in the next couple of weeks.<br/><br/>Merida is a great city and the folks whom I have met here and those with whom I trade have been very good to me. But the heat and lack of rain here is too much for me. As I sit here in my shorts and nothing else I'm sweating. I can walk up and down the hills in Xalapa for hours and not break a sweat.<br/><br/>So I have decided to try Xalapa. I've spent 5 days there, coming and going to Elma, and find it very nice. It is up in the hills so it's not so hot and it gets lots of rain to keep things green. I think gardening will be easier there. Hey Billie,

Nice to hear from you.

I am at the moment in my apartment in Merida, to which I have just returned a couple hours ago. However, I have rented a dump of an apartment in Xalapa in which I deposited my stuff I had in storage and to which I plan to move in the next couple of weeks.

Merida is a great city and the folks whom I have met here and those with whom I trade have been very good to me. But the heat and lack of rain here is too much for me. As I sit here in my shorts and nothing else I’m sweating. I can walk up and down the hills in Xalapa for hours and not break a sweat.

So I have decided to try Xalapa. I’ve spent 5 days there, coming and going to Elma, and find it very nice. It is up in the hills so it’s not so hot and it gets lots of rain to keep things green. I think gardening will be easier there.

]]> By: BillieS http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-854 BillieS Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:41:29 +0000 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/july-20th/#comment-854 Unloading your household goods in Xalapa? Have I missed something? Are your going to live in Merida or Xalapa? Unloading your household goods in Xalapa? Have I missed something? Are your going to live in Merida or Xalapa?

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