Xilitla
19-March 2015
Well get back to the colonel Kurtz wannabe living in the jungle later.
Just to get you up to date.
The blogs spent four days in San Miguel de Allende.
A few museums, a church or 2 , a botanical garden, lots of tequila.
About the only substantive creation was my latest idea for creating a coffee table book on the taco stands of San Miguel de Allende(SMA)
Truly things of beauty.
Anyway, SMA is full of expat gringos with a large infrastructure in place should you not speak Spanish. It's a little pricier than a lot of other places in Mexico but if you want a Starbucks on your plaza central, then somebody has to pay.
It is a nice place, there is lots to do, and the climate is beautiful. We enjoyed our time there.
After SMA we backtracked past Bernal , through the Sierra Gorda mountains, drove around Jalpan and ended up in the little San Luis de Potosí town of a Xilitla. It was raining pretty hard, dark and Bob stuck the gunship up a very steep, one way street with no good way out. After a few minutes of assessing the situation, we decided to employ the "F troop" maneuver. Retreat and reverse into victory!
All done we spent the night camped in the parking lot of a taco stand. The next morning, in the rain, we visited the main attraction in Xilitla, the concrete statuary of Edward James. Back in the 60's this wack job (my opinion) retreated to the rain forest of Mexico and began 20 years of constructing concrete "statuary". One is immediately taken by the imposing presence his work makes, almost erupting out of the jungle. 30'seconds later it hits you- "Apocalypse Now". Or an awful lot of hallucinogenic drugs,which turns out to be the real reason. Anyway, you be the judge.
General San Miguel de Allende
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