cheese and things

Tapijulapa Cascades

Random things I've seen in the last few days:

• a 20-something hotel desk clerk carving a pietà out of pink soap
• bats buzzing near my head in a dank cave of stalactites
• a shower head covered with mosquitoes
• chickens scratching in the dirt, surrounded by a dozen frenzied chicks
• a dreamy waterfall with no one swimming in it but me
• dozens of men brazenly riding a rusted-out freight train
• a very loud evangelist ministering to the passengers of an intercity bus
• the intersection of two waterways, one muddy brown and the other a deep blue-green
• a billboard for a political candidate whose first name is Darling
• female high school students wearing Pepto Bismal pink uniforms
• a young boy following me on his bike so he could talk to me as I walked to the bus
• pickup trucks full of cops driving around and looking bored but sociable
• a kitschy altar to Frida Kahlo in a pizzeria
• an entire museum dedicated to marimbas
• a store called "Quesos & Cosas"