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Photo Tour – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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Everything is better with ketchup!
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Mexicans love “American” clothing, whether they know what it says or not.
Men are more guilty of wearing the unknown than women. I spotted one man wearing a shirt declaring himself the “World’s Greatest Grandma” and another as as a member of the “Women’s Naked 5K Team.”
Instead of donating old clothes to Goodwill, perhaps I should bring a bunch down here. I could just layer them on, walk around town, and sell them to people on the street. “Hey buddy, want to buy a shirt?”
What do you think? Might just pay for my ticket that way.
Casa with a View
Picture perfect view. Sure beats dirty snow.
Fill ‘er Up
Taxi break!
All pumps full on this side of the street also. Do you think the cars all got together and demanded to be filled before they drove another inch?
Mexican Life
Often Mexican houses have no street numbers but imagine living here – on the street with no name!
Street Signs
Taxco is not a small town, yet it is small enough that the residents (the permanent ones anyway) seem to know everyone. There are no traffic lights in Taxco, though there are traffic police that stop traffic on busy roads so pedestrians can cross. Other than that, it is pretty much a first come, first go philosophy, or the typical Mexican attitude of if you can squeeze your car into the space, do so. Add that to the general steepness of the terrain and as you can imagine this philosophy comes with a lot of horn honking and occasionally (amazing really how rarely), scraped paint, broken lights, and shouting.
But having no traffic lights does not mean that there are no street signs. This being a colonial town, with the exception of the main highways into and through town, the streets are as they have been for centuries made of cobblestone.The road builders, set each stone by hand, and sometimes, using the three colors available (black, white, and red) take the opportunity to add some creative variety to their jobs by placing a pattern into the pavers.
There are the typical white lines down the middle, supposedly the line demarks two lanes but usually they serve more as a guide for one car, as if it could not get around the bend without straddling the line.
Other times, the lines form patterns — leaves, geometrics, even intricate pictures in stone outside businesses or in the plazuelas.
Here are a few of my favorite street signs. enjoy the show.
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