Mar 16, 2009 - Pottery Side Trip

Linda and I spent yesterday pretty much sleeping. She came down with something like the flu, aches, stuffy head and low grade temp. I got little sleep during the night because she didn't. So we stayed home instead of going to see San Miguel. We started slow this morning to see how Linda felt. I made a trip across the road for water and fruit at the Mega store. As the day developed, we decide a ride would be good, so headed north to the area around Dolores Hidalgo, a center for pottery production. We first found a beautiful display facility...

Jan 20, 2008 - Dolores Hidalgo, Cradle of Mexican Independence

Dolores Hidalgo, the name of the city, nicely covers the extent of what is of interest in this village: Dolores for the Grita de Dolores (Cry of Pain) that Hidalgo expressed on September 16th 1810 and Hidalgo for the independence hero's home. Miguel Hidalgo, a criollo and the priest of the village, then called Nuestra Senora de los Dolores (Grita de Dolores probably also meant Cry for Freedom from the village of Dolores), had been involved in revolutionary activities before, but his plan for a fullly fledged uprising was precipitated when...