1077 Into the United States of Mexico - and Ibero America.
1077 Home-made signs, houses of concrete and bricks, more flat tires in one >>>>>hour than in 14 months in Vespuccia and Canada.
1081 A peninsula becoming an insula.
1083 Pelicans by the thousand.
1084 Fruits, vegetables, look pitiable, taste great.
1087 Pirating of fossils.
1087 Crowds of cars from Vespuccia.
1088 Garbage, dumped anywhere.
1088 Clouds of broadcasts from Vespuccia.
1089 Military patrols.
1090 Millions of boulders, millions of cacti.
1095 An oasis, more than water; a harbor.
1096 A church always open.
1096 A moment in church, part of daily errands.
1096 Little boys, experts in the latest in toys.
1096 Little girls, mini-ladies.
1097 Teenagers, respectful and educated.
1099 An Eiffel church.
1099 Exploring for, and finding, unexplained cosmonaut-type rupestrian art in >>>>>Baja California.
1104 How polite, even 3- and 5-year olds.
1104 Beware of thorns, scorpions, snakes.
1105 Nineteen types of rattlesnakes, from the very seashore up.
1105 Even here, Vespuccia tried to invade, in 1847.
1106 Pavement means swifter travel and death.
1107 First Jesuit mission in California.
1108 Eating twice the same food.
1108 Articulated language reverting to barking.
1108 Among boulders and cacti: thousands of car carcasses.
1108 Lack of public restrooms.
1109 Prices indicated intelligently.
1109 Surprises from tomato to tomato, from egg to egg, etc.
1110 More Mexican, fewer Vespuccian, radio stations; same intellectual desert.
1110 Magnificent landscape.
1110 Phantasmal crests.
1111 Synchronized birds.
1111 A cave as its dwellers left it.
1113 Marvel of irrigation.
1113 Baja California, certainly safer than those metropolis.
1114 Structured inefficiency.
1116 Public restrooms in sea terminal, repugnant to step close to.
1117 Water desalting plant on solar energy.
1119 Tropic Circle, with a different name.
1120 Defense against anti-yanquism.
1120 Many Buenos Aires-es besides the big one.
1120 Zebu milk, plus worm-approved dates, plus desert honey, yummy.
1121 The dignity of driving without road-signs.
1122 The occasional danger of unmarked road-defects.
1122 Dirtiness in post office.
1122 Art in banknotes and coins.
1124 Public telephone only to call from; and no phone directory.
1125 No wall - public or private - immune to slogan-painting.
1126 Into New Spain.
1127 Mazatlán, first American city bombarded from the air; in 1914.
1128 Creative driving and mufflerless hell.
1129 Latitude, altitude, interchangeable.
1132 981 curves in 114 kilometers.
1134 Local weather forecast, inexistent.
1134 Educational radio for all school-grades.
1134 Roads: incredible, pathogenic pollution-corridors.
1137 Daintiness, even art; yet abandon, even filth.
1138 Not enough money for daily needs, yet  enough for roadside home-made >>>>>mini-oratories.
1138 Some cities fight filth and noise, and win.
1138 A claimed 400-year-old living miracle.
1139 Archaeological figurines and tombs of Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco.
1141 Ixtlán, archaeological site.
1144 When all radio stations link up in a single national network.
1144 Tequila distillery.
1147 Radio, obviously not an information medium.
1147 What are these un-uniformed men with firearms?
1148 Eggs by the weight.
1149 Guadalajara, colonial site.
1149 Orozco, the great muralist-philosopher.
1150 A group trying to reconstruct Aztec music.
1151 Worries about the crossing of Central America, ever more acute.
1152 Supermarket-merchandising Mexican-style.
1155 Flamboyant dendrostatuary (topiary).
1156 Dignified garbage throwing, philosophical garbage-watching.
1156 A jewel, in a garbage can, in a gas chamber.
1156 Ceramics, from two millimeters up.
1158 Panicky fear of cameras among Tarascans.
1159 Jolting at 5 to 10 kilometers per hour.
1161 Quiet birth of a volcano; and its consequences.
1163 Our noses and throats, tanned by pollution.
1163 Pátzcuaro, colonial site.
1164 Acceptable illiteracy.
1164 Tzintzuntzan, archaeological site.
1167 Oldest higher-learning institution in America, still extant: in Morelia, >>>>>1540.
1169 Creative statues, on the streets, part of daily life for everyone.
1171 Taxco, colonial site.
1171 A stretch of straight road - and incredible, short luxury.
1172 Burros, most maligned helpful souls.
1176 Roadblocks for drugs and arms.
1176 Each brook, a communal laundry.
1176 Banana plantations.
1177 The photographs we did not take because of respectfulness.
1177 Strong, active religiosity.
1179 Speed-breakers that are spring-breakers, on main roads.
1180 The intelligence of adapting building materials to climate.
1180 Tehuantepec, where matriarchy ruled.
1180 A market hard to believe.
1181 No more burros.
1182 No more pollution.
1182 Closer to the uncertainty of Central America.
1184 Adventures at the post office.
1185 Chiapa de Corzo, archaeology from 2000 b.C. to 2000 a.C. and beyond; in >>>>>the making.
1187 Villages still identified by their apparel.
1187 Children still doing what their parents do.
1187 Cameras still stealing the soul.
1188 Magnificent vistas.
1188 Churches, churches; almost always open.
1189 Speaking with God, an extended-family affair.
1190 Paraborigines still afraid of Whites because of past, and present, >>>>>abuses.
1190 Our policy for Central America: forward, but one step at a time.