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Charreada
We took our empleada Rosa home early on Independence day. She lives in a puebla outside of the city, past the horse pastures, and down roads that are narrow and unpaved. About a block from her house is a small amphitheater with seating around about half of the circle. Rosa asked us to join […]
The Romero
Every year on October 12, the Virgin of Zapopan travels. She leaves the main cathedral in downtown Guadalajara and travels 4 miles back to her home in the cathedral of Zapopan. How else would she travel except by a virgin car, one that has never been started. Last year an estimated 4 million people […]
Distrito Historico
The plan is to visit someplace cultural each week and this weekend we went down town. We started with a ride in a horse drawn carriage. Clackity, clackity, clackity the horse’s hoofs clattered on the pavement as we followed a circuit that led around the grand central plaza, past several large cathedrals, and in […]