We have just come back from a BIIIIGGG trip all around Mexico! It was so wonderful, we went to all of the colonial citys plus a drive in Zoo! Yes, it was awsome. One thing that we noticed is that there was no "problems" anywhere. All was calm and peaceful. Everyone was buzzing along doing thier thing. From our point of view there seemed like less American tourists around. Probably because of all the coverage in the states on the violence in Mexico. But we met many, many, Canadians, and Europeans having a great time!It is a shame that the media in the US loves the gore, and i suppose it does sell. Luckily for us most of the violence is near the US border a three day drive from here! Yay!
So this photo is the volcano that the Mexicans call Popo although it has a much longer and imposible to say name, Popocatépetl which means smoking mountain (!). It was cool. Just sitting there smoking away like nothing was going on underneath. But in 2001 it sprayed ash 25 km and all of the surrounding villages were evacuated. The last major erruption was in 1947 before that. So people seems to think that one is due...yikes!!
