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Day 2 – Barbadelo to Gonzar – 27.5km

“You get up too fast,” said a woman who had walked from France, “I wish I could trade you feet.” In the early morning darkness of the next day, I was eating breakfast at the albergue café, which was a surprisingly large slice of potato omelet and a café con leche, an espresso coffee topped with steamed milk. The café con leche was perfect on the dark, misty…

Please help spread the word to feed to need. If you or someone you know could use a free warm Thanksgiving dinner, please pass this information along. If you are aware of other locations, please add them to the comment section or email me. The Salvation Army  – Thanksgiving dinners are served at several different locations in nationwide. Please check with you local Salvation Army for information.…

Free Thanksgiving Meals for those in need

I have created a list of locations serving Free Thanksgiving meals to those in need. Please forward this information to anyone who could use this list. If you are aware of other locations, please add them to the comment section or email me.  The Salvation Army – Thanksgiving dinners are being served at locations in Santa Ana, Huntington Park, San Luis Obispo,Santa Fe Springs, Pomona, Los…

what constitutes real tex mex is this: a pale brown puree of lard and pinto beans, a yellowish to orangish short grain rice that has been fried in lard, then simmered in chicken stock, enchiladas in any type of sauce, so long as it has been sourced from a can (or a jar, if what you ordered was mole), and the whole covered in an extruded sort of bright yellow cheese that is midway between velveeta and that gooey pseudo dairy substance adorning gas station nachos. all this on a burning hot plate that the waitress (sometimes with a sweaty lady stache) warns you not to touch.

which brings us to today's fabulous decor.  somebody please enlighten me, but what exactly is it called when the thing on the wall is a painted metal sheet? of a stereotypical "mexican" street, hanging in the sterile confines of a strip mall restaurant?

i was kind of horrified because people were courteously getting out of the way so i could take a picture and smiling, brimming with good old fashioned down home small town friendliness.  note the gentleman below, who surely wanted to know why i was taking his picture.  sadly, this was really the only good item in the place--it has very little in the way of wall space because the other two sides are all glass windows.

however, despite this distinct disadvantage, they did make an attempt at the obligatory marian nicho found in all taquerias, (and sometimes a saint martin too for good measure) though this was stuck on a kind of credenza in the anteroom of the restaurant.