SHOW-time

Hey everybody!
I'm excited to announce that I'm having a show at the Capitol Theater this February 2009 in Olympia WA. I think it will be called What Goes Around Comes Around. The opening reception will be on Saturday February 2nd.

Mazatlán, deer place/Los Mochis, a turtley place

THESE ARE BOTH MAZATLÁN. PRETTY SWEET, HUH? WE COULD ALL DEFINITELY COME BACK HERE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE INTO BUYING T-SHIRTS WITH SWORDFISH ON THEM. OR EATING BAKED POTATOES AND DIGGING IN THE SAND.

So we finally did the train thing! We road the famous Copper Canyon train this morning! Not for quite as long as we were planning though because an hour into the trip they made the announcement that progress was stopping there and then! No more! And to make it clear the train went backwards all the way back to Los Mochis effectively eraesing all the events of that morning. It was like in the twilight zone. All the people around me started walking backwards into the snack bar car and into their seats, Joel started talking backwards. When we got there we went backwards to the bus and un-ate our pancakes on it. Freaky.
Anyway there was a big ol' landslide across the tracks somewhere so now everybody's just got to take it easy and wait.
So it's funny being here because so many people stare so hard. I feel like I just walked into Black Rock and the locals are about to walk up to me and be like, "Whatreyew doin' here, stranger?"
So anyway hopefully the train will be on it's merry way tomorrow and we can all see canyons and waterfalls and trees and rocks and go home happy. I may have to drag Joel off though if he passes out from heat exhaustion. They literally keep the cabins so warm that my glasses fog up everytime I went back in from standing between cars. Which is the place to be, I tell you. Even just going through flat farmland was cool because you get to lean right out the train and just walk around. It was beauty. So I really hope that it gets fixed and we can go.

THIS IS ALSO MAZATLÁN. THAT'S THE HOUSE THAT I WOULD BUY FOR MOM AND DAD AND THEN ME AND JOEL ON MY BIRTHDAY. I INCLUDE THAT ONE NOT SO MUCH TO ADMIRE MY JUTTING HOLMLUND CHIN AND COMBOVER BUT TO POINT OUT THE GREAT PROGRESS BEING MADE BY JOEL'S CURLY SIDEBURN OVER HIS FACE.

Ahhh....Mazatlán.

Doesn't that sound like a great ad byline? I'm going to contact the beauraue of tourism here in Mexico, they can put it on all their posters and commercials and stuff. They can get the deep voiced guy who does all the spanish movie previews.
Man, I have some really good pictures that I want to put up, but I left the cord in the hotel room. So I'll have to put them up later. You'll all just have to wait. But we are in Mazatlán and I actually quite like it. There are herring skies everyday, it's hot but not too humid and there's a sea wind. One could swim if one ignored the trash on the lower parts of the beach. And also if one ignored the scary blue jellyfish washed up all over! Which apparently people do because I see quite a few swimmers.
Today is my birthday and Joel has been treating me real nice. I got juice and carrot bread for breakfast and then we went down to the rocky beach and watched the big spotty green crabs and enjoyed the wind. Now I am 23! That seems very old. I actually thought I was going to be 22 but then I remembered that beck cumple 21 this year! Also crazy!
So now we are going to go build a big sand castle because that's what I want to do on my birthday. And look for shells.
Next time I will have some pictures for sure.

"Vendamos" aqui "mofles" desde solo "$480"!

We "sell" "mufflers" here for only "$48"!
Well, it was some price like that. But a true sign that I saw coming into Guadalajara.
Guadalajara is not "nice". By which I mean I don't really like it at all.
The people are unfriendly and unhelpful, it's the dirtiest, smoggiest city I've ever been too and all the buildings are short and square.
I'm actually not sure what's so bad about it, it's just lots of little things. And there's nothing special here.
Guadalajara is not special.
HOWEVER. I do like the name of our hotel, which is HOTEL MEXICO 70 and I do like the nopal cactus that they make here. It's super good. Actually, all the breakfast food here is good. Guadalajara is the breakfast capital! The tortillas are good too. I also liked the park we visited today where the teens were lined up to get their quincieñera fotos taken. I have never seen so many fancy dresses all bunched together like that. Although they can't get too close together because the skirts all take up about a three yard radius. So that was fun to see.
Also they had an aviary so I got to go in and draw the fancy ducks and the big black swan and the parrots and things like that. Actually, I left and then came back in the exit and ended up face to face with the caretaker who told me that the aviary was closed. And maybe if I had come in the entrance I would have known that because it was locked. That was embarassing but then we were talking and he acutally let me stay in there all by myself while he went to go feed some other birds because I, unlike all the school children, who apparently run through, am quiet. And calm. and that's what the birds like. So anyway I got to stay and the huge swan snuck up behind me and made it's cute tiny honking noises while it watched me. It seemed a little lonely. But also happy.

Anyway. Tomorrow on to Mazatlan where we will hopefully visit an island. Or maybe fit in some last boogie boarding because the trip is ALMOST OVER. THIS IS IT!