It’s a big day in Mexico today. The Virgin of Guadalupe’s birthday means that Mexico City will be a chaos today with pilgrims coming from all over the country.
As to myself, I am spending this weekend in San Francisco, visiting friends and seeing colleagues in the office. Las month we’ve been traveling around.
We spent a short time in Winston-Salem, NC, visiting a friend and his wife who live there. Apparently the town was big during the tobacco times. Some of the biggest US cigarette manufacturers come from there. The town had a very spooky/Halloween feeling with trees changing colors and fog covered nights. Food is delicious over there, albeit extremely unhealthy. One needs to be careful!
Then, we went to NYC (here are some pictures from the overall trip) where we saw Andrea Chenin, went to a cute jazz bar in Brooklyn, walked one of the bridges, and saw friends.
Connecticut was next on the list. My brother and uncle live there. We stayed with my uncle and aunt in Woodbridge. My parents had just flown in and we all spent Thanksgiving together. This was the first time in my US stay that I’ve spent this holiday with family. It was nice to have a different twist to it.
Then, I flew to DC to see friends, walk around the city, eat at the new restaurants and catch-up with all things policy-related.
Over the last two weeks I’ve mostly been in Palm Springs, attending a bunch of Christmas celebrations and connecting with our neighbors and friends. Our friend had a lovely baby shower last Sunday, the temperature was great, food was delicious and the company unparalleled.
Next, I will go skiing in Mammoth, a first for me, and then will stay put in Palm Springs before heading to Europe for work at the start of the year.