I love Mexico...
wow, what a trip!! We didn´t get to milk snails today - seems that the reason these snails aren´t all extinct is because they are out on rocks that are too rough for women of a certain age and weight to scramble over.
I have rock rash on my butt, and I didn´t even get halfway out to the snails. God bless our tour guide Eric, he told Steph and I that there was just no way we were going to get there, and to get back in the boat. Dammitall, I was bound and determined not to let 20 yards of rocky beach get between me and those snails, not after coming all this way. Luckily, he brought us a snail to pet (it had already given its dye to Abecuc), and the boat took us around to watch Abecuc scramble over the rocks for more snails and their dye.
I bought a nice museum-quality piece of fabric out of the coyuche cotton, but I don´t think I´m going to get any seeds.
More on this fabulous trip later -- I´m keeping short notes, transferring into a journal that´s only a week behind, and then I´ll try to transcribe here. I confess, the word I write most often in the notes is SHOPPING!
Labels: Caracol, Mexico, Murex, Oaxaca, Snails
Milking Snails...
I got an amusing IM from my BIL Pat today...
Pat: Exactly how do you milk snails??
Me: Well, you sneak up behind them
Me: really quiet-like
Me: and then you yell BOOO!
Me: and when you scare them they lose their ink.
(for some reason, I didn't get any response to that.)
I think the reason he asked is in response to an email that the Roketman sent out-- we're going back to Omaha for Poor Little Dale's 80th birthday on New Year's Eve. This time, we're driving because we couldn't get airline tickets for the dates we want. It gives us an excuse to take the puppies, which we love, and to drive our new car. Yup. We bought the Cadillac SRX. Whooda thunk.
So anyway, the biggest news is that Stephenie Gaustad and I are going to Oaxaca on Friday!! I love the
Traditions Mexico tours. We get to do a side trip (a Mexican puddle-jumper airplane, how adventurous is that??) to the beach to hunt Murex snails. That's the whole reference to milking snails that Pat's talking about.
Seriously, I feel so very lucky in my life. It is so cool to be able to travel with someone who has the same interests and craziness that I do.
I ask you - who better to milk snails with than
Stephenie Gaustad?
Labels: Mexico, Murex, Oaxaca
The Trip is Coming!
I'm leaving on Friday, March 2... oh, I am so excited!! And typically, the fiber stuff is what I'm packing first.
I need to link to my flickr album:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/originaltwistedspinster/ and then go to all the other places to point to this one... we'll see what I can get to at the cybercafe in San Crisobal.
R
Labels: Flickr, Mexico, SanCristobal, trip
