Pre-Departure

To start off, here is a quote Dr. Parkyn, who teaches Mexican History and Culture, gave me at the end of the semester to keep in mind while in Mexico:

"In Mexico I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic innocence of living in the US. Such a sense doesn't force us into a closed, somber cone of depression and futility; it urges the opposite. The tragic sense opens a human being to the exuberant joys of the present. To laughter, carnality, the comical varieties of love, to music, to art, to the small human glories of the day."

- Pete Hamill

Here we go.