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Dec 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, this will be as far south in Mexico as we are going to go for this trip. Oaxaca de Juarez, (Oaxaca City), Oaxaca.  Taking a convoluted route, we entered Oaxaca mid-afternoon.  The streets are rough and rutted. Their layout keeps you on your toes as streets suddenly become one-way and the left \/ right orientation will switch without notice.  Now let\u2019s exacerbate the driving fun by throwing in some city-wide protests.  A protest doesn\u2019t just mean a demonstration.  Let\u2019s use our vehicles to block streets.  More on this in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We made it to our hotel in the Centro\/Colonial area where the street layout makes sense; regular ol\u2019 square blocks that are all one-way that alternate direction.  Our hotel was fantastic!  Nothing to look at from the outside but a big wooden door.  Inside were lush gardens, terraces, a super deep heated pool and most rooms surrounded an interior patio.  Expensive?  No.  Should it have been? Yep.  The on-premises parking was also behind the walls of the property and definitely a perk, compared to our parking in Guanajuato.  No hiking required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For dinner we walked a few blocks to the city center and the Mercado Vente de Noviembre.  It was loud and busy.  One of the ladies with a nine-pack-a-day voice strong armed us into sitting in her section.  Okay\u2026 they have beer.  We ordered a couple of tlayudas that Oaxaca is famous for.  It\u2019s sort of like a giant chalupa or \u201cMexican pizza\u201d but don\u2019t expect pepperoni, Canadian bacon or anchovies.  Black mole, chapulines (grasshoppers) and cactus on a crispy and fragile mega-chip.  Goes great with beer!  Several beers!  But just incase you disagreed with the bill, you didn\u2019t pay the waitress.  You payed the guy with gang tattoos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our walk back to the hotel we decided to check out a mezcal bar where I got to practice a fair amount of Spanish.  We ordered flights (bartender\u2019s choice) and by the third shot my Spanish was flowing but was not necessarily comprehendible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After breakfast at the hotel, which is included and served on the 2nd<\/sup> story terrace, we decided to make an early exit and explore the Mezcal route farther south of Oaxaca City.  Suffice it to say Sharon and I now know more about mezcal than is really necessary to survive in this world.  We also sampled so much mezcal that my taste buds burned off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n