Bagagge

Today, I visited my late fathers grave in Colima for the first time since he died in December of 2006.

Surprisingly, it made part of my sorrow float away like a feather in the wind. In the words of my uncle Pablo described as "papa bear" by my good friend Jack : "To come here and see him resting so peacefully strengthens oneself". I know I will have to spend more time there kicking it with his grave and that of my uncles Gil and Juan who are at the same pantheon.
And every time I come here I learn about the cycles of life. I met my cousin Euridice for the first time, she is 4 months old...

My bag is not here yet so I am becoming one with my shirt to the point that when I do change I know I will miss it, in any case I am loving Colima as always, especially the sunshine in peoples smiles and their inner warmth, I long to be like them again...

The journey has begun...

After several false starts 6 hour waiting time in Santa Rosa and LAX, terrible food, tiny rickety airplanes and Alaska Airlines losing my luggage, I am now in Guadalajara, world capital of Mariachi and drunkenness with one shirt . In fact, the governor of this state of Jalisco was so drunk the other day he decided to gift 9 million dollars to the catholic church out of the states budget .

In any case, this is the first leg of the trip where I am reacquainting myself with my uncle Javier, my aunt Lupe and their two sons, Adrian and Machete, I mean Javier Adolfo, but seriously, just look at him...

Post Number one

This blog was presented to me as an idea for documenting a projected stretch of travels through different places according to what my imagination and mostly my budget allow for.
So far my projected travels include Colima Mexico on the Southwest of the Mexican Pacific Coast, world capital of lime production, a giant tropical grove and where my roots and family are from. In this first leg, expect a lot of pictures of fruit family and good food...
Colima will only be the first leg of this journey and will serve as an experiment and testament of myself as a mobile documenter and will determine where we can and should go...
I would like to make known that these adventures were in part motivated by the restrictions imposed on me for the last year working for an American state agency that although is not the devil, it completely gave me a great need to get out of my cube and do something else like kiss the sands of the beach for the next two weeks and start meeting people across the globe and then go visit them... and eat their food.

Thanks in advance to my good Friend Gabe S., Krang of gabesimagination.com for promising to "pimp out" my blog and serve as HQ through these sets of journeys through random countries... Also a huge thank you to my friends Jack and Leah for biking it down to Colima from Idaho and starting an eco-tourism blog, this is where it all began.

Advertisers are welcome in order to extend these trips. Paypal account to be setup shortly.