Colonial Cities and big RV'S do not mix
Advice and warning to those of you who are visiting Mexico for the first time, the old Colonial Cities to name a few: Taxco, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato have streets that an RV will not navigate...
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(This is off-point -- but it is about oxen in Mexico, so I guess it is sort of ok.) Believe it or not, I have actually plowed in Mexico with an ox! I was an "exchange student" in 1970 in a village north of Taxco and south of Toluca. The program put me on a farm for three months, living in the farmhouse with the family. Wonderful people, and one of the greatest adventures of my life. No electricity, wood-fired gravity fed water heater, handmade tortillas every day.
And although they did not own an ox, a guy in the area did, and he would take the ox from farm to farm for plowing season, for a fee. The ox was so well trained that almost anyone could plow, if you learned a few simple commands (which I no longer remember).
It was not easy to keep up with the ox -- he walked slowly but steadily, and the clods of muddy earth were tough to walk on. This farm was up at high altitude, and the mornings were cold. The ox would get so hot that steam would come off his back.
But he was not nearly so clever as Thor -- it was a big chore to get the ox turned around at the end of the row. (I wonder if Swedish oxen might also have been more high-performance. Turbo boost, perhaps??) ;)
And although they did not own an ox, a guy in the area did, and he would take the ox from farm to farm for plowing season, for a fee. The ox was so well trained that almost anyone could plow, if you learned a few simple commands (which I no longer remember).
It was not easy to keep up with the ox -- he walked slowly but steadily, and the clods of muddy earth were tough to walk on. This farm was up at high altitude, and the mornings were cold. The ox would get so hot that steam would come off his back.
But he was not nearly so clever as Thor -- it was a big chore to get the ox turned around at the end of the row. (I wonder if Swedish oxen might also have been more high-performance. Turbo boost, perhaps??) ;)
