A Walk in the Mushroom Forest: Cuajimoloyas, Oaxaca
My friend Debbie has been here for a week with her granddaughter in a Spanish immersion class. She’s a medical doctor. I discovered (in addition to curing me of my intestinal ailments) she knows all the Latin botanical names for mushrooms, since she likes to hunt them in the forests near her North Carolina home. […]
In The Cloud Forest at San Antonio Cuajimoloyas, Ixtlan, Oaxaca, Mexico
Oliver Sacks, medical doctor and writer, talks about Oaxaca biodiversity and you can read about it in his Oaxaca Journal. He talks about coming to Oaxaca for forty years. You can also easily experience the climate range by visiting the Ethnobotanical Garden behind Templo Santo Domingo, where there is a sampling of the microclimates found throughout […]
NCSU in Oaxaca: Crocodiles, Iguanas, Mangroves at Ventanilla Beach
It was a rollicking day in the skies over Oaxaca yesterday as I made my way back to Teotitlan del Valle from Puerto Escondido via Mexico City, where Tropical Storm Beatriz was having her way with us. Sheets of rain fell as I took off in the little Aeromar turboprop. In Huatulco, the news wasn’t […]