Mexican Reflections
Well, we’re about three whole months into our new chapter here in Japan! We’ve been driving on the left side of the road and muddling through verbal exchanges and apologies in Japanese, and our Latin America-tempered bodies are starting to freeze in the abrupt (awful, wonderful) Japanese autumn. Maybe it’s the change in weather, or the language, or the food, or the realization that we really are starting to “settle in” on the other side of the world, but whatever the reason, I’m finally finding the time (and the will) to write a little bit about the “Wayfaring Sweeneys’” time in Mexico. A Brief Preface I’ve attempted to get started on writing something up a few times now (and this post has been developed over the course of a month or so), but I kept pulling the plug on the project for a variety of reasons. Posting pictures of exotic places and delicious food in the midst of some of the darkness and uncertainty of this sociopolitical moment has struck me as a little tone-deaf. That ...