The original plan was to rent a motorcycle and ride around from the cloud forest north of Oaxaca city down to the beach coves along the Pacific. That proved impossible; there were no places to rent, only buy. So the unnamed point-and-shoot digital camera I brought as a safety precaution for the road (and not the Canon 5D Mark II or Contax 645) existed only to vex me. I’ll never shoot digital on a trip again.
Over 11 days, I traveled from Mexico City to Oaxaca City, spent four days hiking in the Sierra Norte north of Oaxaca, passing through Caujimoloyas, Benito Jaurez, Neveria, Latuvi, Amatlan, Yavesia, back to Oaxaca City, spent three days at beach cove Mazunte, tourist hole Puerto Escondido, mangrove lagoon Manialtapec, then back to Mexico City.
During an unfortunately brief visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, I became enthralled by the wondrous worlds created by Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo in the 1950-60s.
