Category: Travel

  • Notes From Mexico City: “La Conquista Continúa”

    Notes From Mexico City: “La Conquista Continúa”

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    I’m trying to think of a word or a phrase or a way to describe the arc of a certain kind of relationship, a relationship a person has with a place. I want to describe what it is like to be in a place where I didn’t grow up. It’s a verb that I’m looking…

  • Notes from Mexico City, Part One

    Notes from Mexico City, Part One

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    From my tiny rooftop apartment in the colonia Coyoacuán I see the sun rise blood-orange red fading into hot orange and then silvery white and blue. On the horizon the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl come into focus. I see the stunning main library on the UNAM campus. I am fascinated with this building designed by painter…