Soup Soup the Magical Food

Ahh, soup. We went to the market the other day, in San Augustine, planning to make some spinach thing. First challenge: the word for market, at least in this particular town, was not mercado. So when we asked for markets we were instead dropped at a minimarket type corner store. I asked a woman on [...]

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The Farm Of Eternal Youth

Neverland. What’s your first association? Micheal Jackson or Peter Pan? Mine was Mr. Jackson. Why, I wondered, would someone name their organic farm after the mansion where the “King of Pop” supposedly molested little boys? Then I realized the name was more likely a reference to the land of the Lost Boys and Tinkerbell, the [...]

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Banana Bean Soup

When we arrived on the farm,  La Finca de Tina, aka Neverland, (in the Spanish version of Peter Pan Never Land is el pais de Nunca Jamas, the land or country of Never Ever) Tina was out of town. Well, in a town to be correct, but a town far far away. In the USA, [...]

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A New Meaning of Terrible

Walking down the main street in Mancora (which also happens to be the Pan-American Highway) a truck honked. Very close. Very loud. “That’s terrible!” I exclaimed. unintentionally, I am very vocal about my feelings. Good tastes result in a hum of ”mmm.” Tiredness makes me mutter. Pain and I say “Ow,” at least, and maybe “Ow!%$·*!” And I gasp [...]

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The Be-All and End-All

The supreme aim, the most important element, the essential bit. What has been the be-all end-all of this last week? Oh, I wouldn’t even attempt to explain. Let’s just say, some of it might have been missing. Maybe we just had be-all. Or maybe we just had end-all. Anyway, I have just been informed that [...]

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