http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/ What Traveling Reveals About The Human Heart en-us laughingnomad@mac.com Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:27:38 -0800 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017694.shtml Nothing is ever easy. Came up to pick up my car and found that my name wasn't on the title and registration had lapsed. Can't get doc appt till Feb.... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017647.shtml I am in Oregon for the next 10 plus days...running errands and picking up my car to drive back down to Oaxaca. The night before I left Oaxaca a Mexican... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017630.shtml When the planton (encampments of strikers) feel they are being attacked, it will signal the campers to gather together to help. Fireworks will sound throughout the city. One bang means... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017629.shtml 2006-08-26 International Herald Tribune Por Tek Tung - The Body Snatchers Fighting for a Gory Prize - A Race to the Death in Thailand They are not rewarded with money,... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017626.shtml Protest leader Roberto García told The Associated Press on Thursday that demonstrators would accept an offer earlier this week from President Vicente Fox´s government to sit down at the negotiating... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017610.shtml August 24, 2006 Two days ago I made a return visit to Huayapam...with Francisco... Fortunately, the taxi driver was able to negotiate around a blocked road for the 20 minute... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017608.shtml A University of Kentucky professor received an email from a Oaxacan teacher who took his undergraduate classes in Oaxaca. Teacher's Letter Tuesday August 22, 2006 "I received your message and... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017596.shtml Francisco just came to my apartment this morning Aug 22 for coffee...he said he heard in the Centro this morning, August 22, that the "church people" are upset that the... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017594.shtml Went to the zocalo at 7am...burned out car half a block from zocalo on Bustamante. Wanted to go to immigration to get my visa...waited half an hour for bus on... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017592.shtml I live on Fiallo about 4 blocks from the zocalo... at 4am I woke up hearing what could have been semi-automatic gun-shots in the direction of the zocalo. Then I... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017590.shtml Notice from the Oaxaca Study Action Group yahoo discussion site posted in the evening of Sunday August 20: "Friends this is a red alert indicating that Noticias (newspaper) warehouse was... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017589.shtml APPO (the popular assembly) held a national forum to discuss ungovernability and a new constitution last Wednesday and Thursday, August 16th and 17th in Oaxaca that was reportedly attended by... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017587.shtml I am cranky this morning. I was up all night because of a very noisy wedding party in the courtyard below my apartment window. So I went to my favorite... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017580.shtml Last night I visited a gentle sincere Oaxacan family that lives about 20 minutes in the mountains northwest of the city in San Andreas Huayapan. The couple roasts fragrant locally... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/nomads/archives/017581.shtml You can view a video of an interview of Jill Friedberg, who made a documentary video of the teacher's union movement, called Granito De Arena, and several Oaxacenos and other...