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15 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
1986 “Jan. 2nd. 1986 9 p.m.: I just came back from my odyssey in Mexico, late last night. We partied with Jim, his girlfriend, Larry (Joel’s brother) at Louie’s’ till 3 a.m. drinking vodkas, laughing, and talking excitedly about our whirlwind pace...
14 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Another picture of me sightseeing. At a posh, ‘Las Vegas-style’ high-rise hotel in the capital Louie strode through the lobby ahead of me, walked up to the counter and asked for two adjoining rooms on the top floor and he got them, handing Sanita...
14 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We drove hard that day, (as if we felt some silent, imaginary worry that Alex was pursuing) and by night reached the top of the central mountain range and one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen, San Cristóbal de las Casas. We had a fine...
13 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A few minutes later the three of us tapped ever so lightly on Sanita’s door and were relieved as she opened it, standing right inside with one large suitcase in hand. We could hear Alex snoring in the dark. We tip-toed down the few steps to the p...
13 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Earthquake in Mexico If you continue the white line to the coast it points right at Salina Cruz. It was around ten that night when we sobered up a bit, eating a large meal in a dark restaurant. Joel had sent his friend home, happy and thanking...
12 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Joel had a strange history, obviously, for anyone ending up here. He’d been through university and had a law degree and even practiced a few years in Seattle. He was thin and handsome and must never had met the girl with enough magnetism to keep...
12 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The road to the beach in Salina Cruz and you know who. This was prophetic, the rescue of the book, as the next day I began the ‘rescue’ of Sanita from her ‘Hell’. But an even stranger portent followed in the dream I had that night. This is my jour...
11 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Louie was at my door the next morning. Robin was in his small, red Toyota waiting and we all squeezed in the front seat to the S.F. airport. I didn’t have a passport. They did. But you could leave the country without one, seamlessly and without a...
10 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My ex in Mexico For those of you who aren't that familiar with the term 'butterfly effect' it was coined by a scientist, Edward Norton Lorenz in the year 1972 who noted that in a long series of causes and effects the slightest variati...
9 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My Dorm mates at Berkeley, Ron Dasch in front, now sadly, deceased. I said 'K' was business-like and unsocial with me but she was social one fateful night, the night before I was to leave on my trip to Mexico. She’d shown up with Lindsey that afte...
