¡waca oaxaca!

We are still in Oaxaca, still enjoying it mucho.  The spanish classes have been going well and we´ve had some great times exploring the city and surrounding area.  We drove out to a hot springs today and stopped at a few mezcal fabricos, which were mostly small houses with a mash pit (where a donkey pulls a huge stone around in a circle mashing agave) and a big firing pot and still.  We bought a bottle from the guy in the picture and its delicious!  The drive out there was beautiful and felt amazingly like the Salt Lake foothills, except for the 30 foot tall cacti and the packs of dogs that would ambush us at rest stops (one pack got hold of my left pant leg and right boot as I was driving away, Paul says they were peritos but they were huge monsters, let me tell you).  Linda was visiting for the past week but sadly had to leave yesterday so we are on our own again.  We´ll be in Oaxaca for another 5 days or so and then back down to the coast and in to Guatamala.

We´ve met some great people at the place we are staying now, including 2 guys who road in on fully loaded bikes (bicycles, that is) who had ridden from Prudo Bay, Alaska.  They are part of a larger project, filming a documentary of the trip down to Panama.  They have some amazing stories, and I´m starting to wonder how I can go on a bicycle tour any time soon....  It sounds like a cool project, check out their web page: http://www.going-south.tv/

Here are a few more pics from the past few days in Oaxaca, hope you are all having a great 2010 so far!