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Part 2...What In The WORLD Am I Doing In Mexico?!

27 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments CodyMac50

A lot of things... Now that I'm here, I have been as busy as can be. In a post several days ago, I was told that my story would make a great read, or two. So my journey since arriving, is very interesting because I have endured so many things. But Co...

Mexico Enacts Total Ban on Smoking in Public Places

17 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

On January 15th, 2023, Mexico enacted a total ban on smoking in public areas alongside a ban on tobacco advertising, amounting to one of the strictest anti-smoking laws in the world. The latest law also places a total ban on displaying cigarettes and...

A Foreign Country Called Home

26 Nov 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."  Colossians 3:2-3 "I've come back aroundto uncharted ground,or so it seems"Me   I've never been here before.  Have you?  Mayb...

Cenote's in Yucatán Peninsula Mexico

5 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Chadayan

Cenote is an underground cave formed under the earth. Some of them are filled with water.In my understanding Cenotes are unique phenomena in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. There may be other places that have the same geological phenomena.I have vis...

Colonel Kurtz in a Van

21 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argu...

Mexican Odyssey

18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Gómez Palacio.  Just over the Durango state line from Torreón.  What is apopleptic?  Apoplepsy?  Is that the word?  They use dead bodies for the foundation of the highway.  In order to ensure the ride is as insane as possible, they pour asphalt over...

An Oxymoron of Anarchists

9 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"If we're out fixing the world but we're still damaged, we're just bleeding on everything we touch."  Lisa Freeman   I just caught episode 5 of HBO's "The Anarchists" series on BitChute last night, and found it more compelling than I expected to.  At...

Breaking My Guitar Out Of Jail

30 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My guitar is in jail.  It was convicted on 5 counts of rocking too hard in the free world, and was sentenced to 3 years in the Kemp Calaboose in Kemp, TX.  Bonnie Parker of Bonnie & Clyde fame once spent the night in the Kemp Calaboose.  According to...

Beware The Fabulous Leaks

21 Jul 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The words of the prophets are written on thesubway walls, and tenement halls." Simon & Garfunkel   I like street art.  Always have.  Nothing beats the street for checking the artistic pulse of a city.  While I'm not one to criticize art museums for...

"La Catrina" Strikes Again

17 Jul 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The recent shooting death of a 21-year-old mariachi singer at the hands of her jealous 79-year-old husband in a restaurant in Mexico City highlights the dangers of playing with fire, whatever side of the death table you're sitting on.  What leads a 2...