1) Oaxaca - the city, the countryside, the beaches, the food. It sounds like I could spend a week in Oaxaca. Maybe at the end of my internship.
2) Dinner with the Patinos-Pratos, I still owe them big time. Maybe that Coox Hanal restaurant....
3) Go to a Lucha Libre wresting match in the Mexico Arena
4) Drink pulque in a pulqueria. Pulque is the ancient Aztec ancestor of mescal, crudely fermented, and lower in alcohol content.
5) Visit my friend Jose in Colima. It's a long trip, but it sounds amazing. Weekend trip.
6) Xilitla and the Jardin de Posadas. Xilitla was a tiny village that attracted an eccentric British architect maybe a hundred years ago. The architect built a fantasy garden in the middle of the jungle, filled with architectural follies, stairs to nowhere, etc. etc. It looks phenomenal and surreal.
7) Visit SantaFe and have a drink somewhere upscale. Santa Fe is the new CBD based on American models- its impossible to get to without a car, the architecture is all modern and upscale and the entire area is scaled to be completely pedestrian unfriendly. Why do I want to see it? Because I want to see what our cultural exports look like on an urban scale.
8) Find something really cool and buy it. I've already started looking for the one amazing thing. I know it sounds like I'm going to look and look and end up buying an overpriced sombrero at the airport gift shop, but I have a feeling I'm close.
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