First things first: Many thanks for the kind greetings for my wedding. Despite highly aggressive attacks carried out by La Familia Michoacana - they burned buses, cars, and gas stations in order to block every exit from Morelia just days before our big day - things passed very smoothly, and we've spent the past weeks in Michoacàn, as well as a bi/centennial road trip to Zacatecas (the most famous battle of the Revolution, Pancho Villa's June 23, 1914 toma de Zacatecas), Aguascalientes (site of Teatro Morelos, where the famous Convención de Aguascalientes took place Oct-Nov 1914, which we were lucky to get to see despite it being usually closed to visitors), Dolores de Hidalgo (where it all began with the Grito de Dolores on Sept. 16 2010), as well as San Miguel de Allende, birthplace of the Ignacio Allende, who in revisionist accounts appear a far more important organizer and implementor of the 1810 than the honorable Hidalgo. A fantastic trip, though traveling on Michoacán car plates warranted a bit too many uncomfortable stares.
(On a side note: Regarding traveling in Mexico, Malcolm Beith has an excellent post to which I wholeheartedly concur, and I take the liberty to emphasize two points: Avoid the carretera libre as much as you can, and do not drive at night: After spending three weeks here, the main change from my last visit this summer is that now everyone, from family to neighbors to friends, seem to have a story to tell of highway robberies at night, even on the autopista de cuota, so this is one thing I have definitely avoided)
Be that as it may: On the last day of 2010 and the 2000s, I wish everyone the very best for the new year, with hopes that the next decade will be far better than the one we are leaving behind. Thank you very much for reading.
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