As I wrote a couple weeks ago in an email to the Rising Voices mailing list, I have mixed feelings about World AIDS Day. On the one hand, it can help create the illusion that we only need to think about AIDS one day out of the year and then somehow everything will get better. [...]

I’ve been meaning to write much more, but we’ve been driving about 10 hours a day and most of my time has been going into fixing up the other parts of the site. Eventually all the parts will have the same style/template and when they do I’ll send an email out to friends, acquaintances and [...]

4 feet of powder fell on the mountains of Utah in the last 24 hours

I had given up hope on Texas, but San Antonio I kinda like. It’s a well designed
city built around a square shaped intersection of rivers called the Riverwalk.

Texas hasn’t exactly given me the warmest welcome yet. This place is like another
world to me.

It’s so strange, the antognism between Mexican immigrants and the Chicano generation they created. It was one thing I kept hearing over and over again in Acambaro

I think it was around 9 when I got into Tucson. Upstairs
in the hostel room I met a kid named Alex. He was a bit strange, with super
buggy eyes who was constantly looking all around, but never looked in your eyes.
"I’m 28 already" he said. Story goes he was a mechanical engineering
student at Georgia Tech where he’s from. Then he did