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January 16, 2019 - heading home from San Miguel de Allende

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We’re up at 4:30, packed, and ready well before six.   There are glasses of orange juice and styrofoam boxes of cut-up melons waiting for us on the table.   We drink the juice, grab our fruit and haul our luggage out to the van.   Adan has already had to leave once because someone pulled up behind him.   Everything is loaded up and we’re on the road by 5:51!   Already ahead of schedule!!   It’s dark and we have a four-hour drive back to Mexico City ahead of us.   At first there is conversation about how great the trip was and what if anything needed to be changed. No one wanted to change anything.   Maybe we could have skipped the first butterfly adventure;   but there is no way to know until you get there what the viewing will be like!   Everyone loved the balance of ruins, architecture, and nature!   And everyone agreed that we crammed so much into our twelve days! After a couple of hours people are ready for the sweet breads and applaud Ginger’s choices.   Shortly after
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January 15, 2019 - San Miguel de Allende

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We have our own dining table in the middle of the several floors of the house and our menus include orange juice or fruit, toast, and several breakfast entries.   I have scrambled eggs with large chunks of bacon and delicious home fries.   I asked for only one egg, but that seems to be counter-cultural!   So much food!!   and linden-flower tea! After a leisurely meal Adan brings the van around and we drive to the ruins at Canada de la Virgen. There is an impressive canyon located nearby from which the archeologists took the name.   The ruins were first discovered in 1985 and opened to the public is 2011.   The people who lived here were active from about 540 to 900 A.D. with a pronounced Toltec influence felt around the 800s. We didn’t know what to expect, since this is such a new site;   what a pleasant surprise!   There is a fully-developed pyramid and an adjoining, circular structure that was dedicated to the wind god.   There is even a natural garden.   At firs
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January 14, 2019 - to San Miguel de Allende

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We’re on our way this morning to San Miguel de Allende, a city popular with artists and ex-pats, as evidenced by both the plethora of art galleries and ethnic restaurants!   Our plan was to stop at a new set of ruins that have only been open to the public since 2011, but unlike every other archaeological site in Mexico, this one is closed on Mondays!!   Juan is disappointed because he hasn’t had a chance to see this one yet! Along the drive Juan tells us the history of San Miguel de Allende.   It was actually a planned city, rather than just growing as necessity dictated.   The original name was San Miguel Grande.   Then Allende became a freedom fighter, working with Hidalgo.   When Allende went to the USA to buy arms he was caught and beheaded.   Hidalgo and two other fighters were also beheaded and their heads were displayed at the four corners of the granary to discourage the rebels.   It didn’t work.   1826 his name was added to the name of the town.   It wa
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