mexico – Orangette https://orangette.net Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:05:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 No one awake but us https://orangette.net/2016/02/no-one-awake-us/ https://orangette.net/2016/02/no-one-awake-us/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:19:50 +0000 http://orangette.net/2016/02/no-one-awake-us/ On the night we got there, when we checked in, the lady at the front desk wrote out the wifi network and password on the corner of a pad of paper, ripped it free, and handed it to me. I slid it into my phone case, so that I wouldn’t lose it, and last week, three months later, I noticed it still wedged there. “How’s that Rancho Pescadero wifi working for you?” Brandon says, peering over my shoulder. “Little slow, from 2,000 miles away?” I roll my eyes, yank out the scrap of paper, and crumple it up. But when he looks away, I press it flat again and slip it back in. I first heard about Rancho Pescadero was from a couple of Delancey neighbors and longtime…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2016/02/no-one-awake-us/feed/ 29 We adopted the habit https://orangette.net/2015/01/we-adopted-the-habit/ https://orangette.net/2015/01/we-adopted-the-habit/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:30:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/we-adopted-the-habit Oaxaca! As I said, I’m no expert, but I can tell you what I liked. I hear that some of you are hoping to travel there, and I hope what follows is helpful. This was our second time going on vacation with our friends Brandi and John. If you can find two people you enjoy and won’t want to stab after ten days in close quarters, I highly recommend it. Traveling with friends has allowed us to feel more bold, for better or worse, about long drives on mountainous roads in foreign countries, and about traveling without making a lot of plans, doing exhaustive research, or knowing the local language. Also, at the beach, two of us invariably want to…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/01/we-adopted-the-habit/feed/ 41 January 12 https://orangette.net/2015/01/january-12/ https://orangette.net/2015/01/january-12/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:31:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/january-12 We got home this past Tuesday night, after spending Christmas with my family and then ten days in Oaxaca, Mexico, with a couple of friends, and I’m so relaxed that I can hardly remember how to type. I’ve never been particularly good at relaxing, but in the past year, I’ve started to get the hang of it: how to do nothing but read for an entire day, how to be a fair-skinned person on a tropical beach and not die of sunburn, how to drink a beer at noon, and how to enjoy swimming in open water without thinking about Jaws or that giant sturgeon they found in Lake Washington. Having just spent more than a week practicing my new…

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