17.1° N · 96.7° W
23°C · PARTLY CLOUDY · DAY 23
THE ROUTE
Map illustration in progress
Mexico → Guatemala → Belize → Honduras → Nicaragua → Costa Rica
NEAR OAXACA, MEXICO
Three weeks into Oaxaca state and I'm not done with it. There are towns I meant to visit and didn't, roads I turned back from, conversations I want to continue with people I've only briefly met. The s
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Drove south after dark because I'd been sitting still too long. The road from Oaxaca toward Miahuatlán is narrow and winding and I don't recommend it in the dark, which is partly why I did it.
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Visited a palenque — a small-scale mezcal distillery — outside Miahuatlán. The maestro, Ignacio, has been making mezcal on the same land as his grandfather and his grandfather's father. The agave he u
Read →“I leave things not because they are finished — they are never finished — but because I am ready for the next thing.”