I will try to add more links and intersting stuff as I go along. I will ocassionally post in Spanish and use spanglish (sorry), but I want to encourage you to leave comments and ask me what tickles your fancy, the idea is to learn something from reading this blog.

With that in mind... today is Mexican Independence Day, asi que Viva Mexico Cabrones!and how appriopriate since the first people I met on this trip (on the plane) are a Syrian-Mexican couple who is relocating to Damascus so their kids can learn Arabic. Minerva and her husband refused to let me take a cab to my hotel, they drove me there and made sure everything was in order before leaving. I will meet them later in the week.

So far so good, everyone has been very corteous and I dazzeled the immigration officers with my knowledge of Arabic -which ammounted to being able to understand mafi mushkilah which means "no problem"- as they stamped my passport (thanks Karim). Oh yes, they also could not resist the temptation to make a J-Lo joke as they read my name. I hope that does not become a trend.

I'll post more tomorrow, I can't wait to hit the old town.