3423 Back into Mexico.  (2nd time)
3424 Yes, a world of differences.
3433 The Huastecs.
3435 So, ¿the pre-Columbians did not know the wheel, huh? 
     ¿What are these wheels?
3437 Hours, divided in decimal system.
3437 Toilet paper, grader of intelligence.
3438 Tamuin, archaeological site.
3440 Oceans of citruses.
3441 Thirteen kilometers in 2 hours 20 minutes non-stop ...
3441 Macuxtepetla, a market as markets used to be, including hair braided, and >>>>>ceramics (functional) decorated, in pre-Columbian style.
3442 As much a fortress as a church.
3444 "Touching" hands (instead of shaking hands).
3444 Respectful pride of these humble people.
3444 An underdeveloped chicken, tasting as no high-tech chicken ever could.
3445 Breeding of fighting cocks.
3448 Teayo, archaeological site.
3449 The blessing of never being persecuted by anonymous harassment, >>>>>Vespuccian-type.
3451 El Tajín, archaeological site; would not be out of place in Asia; and its >>>>>Fliers.
3461 Czech globetrotters harassed by Vespuccian as spies, without proof.
3463 Following the steps and acts of Hernán Cortés, from his landing to the >>>>>capital of the Aztec empire.
3464 Did the French imperialists invading Mexico intend to help the southern >>>>>Confederacy?
3464 Did the Germans in World War I promise to help Mexico recover its lost >>>>>lands?
3464 Through here flowed the riches from the Philippine Islands to Spain.
3466 Cempoala, archaeological site.
3466 (3471) The Totonacs; and Cortés.
3469 Quiahuiztlán, archaeological site.
3469 Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, astute opportunism in action.
3471 The Tlaxcaltecs; and Cortés.
3472 Museum of Archaeology; outstanding in layout and contents (Xalapa).
3472 Church with novel idea: flora motives.
3472 Church with novel idea: floor sloping up to the altar.
3481 Tizatlán, archaeological site.
3483 Cacaxtla, archaeological site.
3483 "Stratospheric" kites.
3484 How pervasive is the horrendous, the grotesque, in pre-Columbian art.
3484 Cholula, archaeological, colonial site; massacre by Cortés; oh, and city >>>>>of guitars and lovers.
3488 Polyplatforms, para-pyramids, pene-pyramids, ziggurats.
3490 A churdh with eight masses on Sunday and five masses on each weekday.
3492 Vespuccia is right: the prefix "in" is dangerous.
3495 Emissaries and sorcerers of Motecuhzoma (Moctezuma); (not Montezuma).
3495 Ayotzingo: Cortés meets Cacamatzin, nephew of Moctezuma.
3496 Cortés saw it all green, we see it all arid.
3497 A confrontation that not even Cortés had:
     wrangling with extortionist police-people (at least, we won).
3498 Here, the adventurer Hernán Cortés and the emperor Motecuhzoma II met.
3505 Back to the Gulf of Mexico.
3505 A bus, at 19 kilometers per hour, trying to overtake a truck at >>>>>18 kilometers per hour, both belching dense, black exhaust clouds.
3506 Trees growing plastic sheets.
3506 But a garbage truck, dressed like a ship for launching.
3507 Puebla, colonial site.
3509 A museum undermining the Bering Strait dogma.
3510 Not everybody trying to cross The Darien is as lucky as we were.
3511 Tonantzintla, Acatépec:
     two churches, anathemas to purists; but extraordinary they are.
3512 To the depth of some 20/30,000 b.C., to re-emerge about 1000 a.C.
3513 Counter-intelligence research on the shoulder blade of a mammoth.
3516 Why beautiful statues, shameful garbage?
3517 The birth of maize (one of two claimants).
3522 A novel way of negotiating hairpin bends (legally).
3522 On the brink of incapacitating mechanical problem.
3523 Drama in mechanic's shop; good enough to be put on stage.
3525 Plus two mechanic's mini-dramas as side shows.
3527 But we managed 1,000 kilometers under own power to salvation.
3530 Then, one more mechanical problem.
3531 Hypocrisy on short-wave radio.
3532 Then, one more mechanical problem.
3532 Green Angels: free mechanical service patrolling highways of Mexico (even >>>>>welding, in our case).
3534 One more mechanical problem.
3534 Is it a portent for us to give up?
3534 With faith, forward.
3535 A cemetery worthy of a dissertation.
3535 El Zapotal, archaeological site.
3536 Laughter among tibias and skulls.
3537 Insidiousness of civilization.
3541 We saw Olmec Heads alive, walking today.
3541 Archaeology, often a gray-and-white version of a very colorful world.
3543 Tres Zapotes, archaeological site.
3544 For some locals, no difference between archaeologists and robbers:
     the local patrimony disappears either way.
3545 Intrinsic quality and plain oldness in the revering of archaeology.
3546 La Venta, archaeological site.
3548 Comalcalco, archaeological site.
3548 Cacao.
3553 Wall-less archaeological museum-in-a-grove (Villahermosa).
3555 An intriguing carving.
3556 The Olmecs.
3560 Reproducing original sculptures.
3563 Oh, blessing: no one ever throws anonymously the police at us; rather, >>>>>people offer us their kindness.
3563 What about a supermarket?
3566 Palenque, archaeological site.
3574 Tourists, hapless victims of circumstances.
3579 Astonishingly different authoritative stories by several guides on same >>>>>subject.
3582 Again, those hours to get an international telephone connection.
3584 Drama: refusal to renew the registration of our vehicle, at last moment, >>>>>without warning, against long-standing regulations, without any fault on >>>>>our part, leaving us legally stranded.  Our contact will complain.
3586 Edzná, archaeological site.
3588 The torment of springbreakers at its most sadistical.
3588 Hochob, archaeological site; would not be out of place in Asia.
3588 A world of field-burning, and its dangers.
3590 Sayil, archaeological site.
3591 No telephone all those days to call our contact; gnawing suspense.
3591 Labná, archaeological site.
3591 Denomination "Maya false arch", inadequate.
3592 Loltún Caverns; archaeological site; plus two natural lithophones.
3594 Fresh water, impossible to find, days on end; only salt water, >>>>>underground.
3594 Xlapak, archaeological site.
3595 Cabá, archaeological site; another one that would not be out of place in >>>>>Asia.
3598 First telephone since Palenque: yes, yes, registration restored.
3598 Uxmal, archaeological site.
3608 An infernal church; and suggestions how to make it more soul-less.
3609 Felicitous idea: Museum of Anthropology in ex-prison.
3611 Easier to hear the weather forecast of another continent than the >>>>>forecast we need.
3613 The real Chichén Itzá, archaeological site; including strange similarities >>>>>with India; (25 hours inside).
3616 Unhomogeneity of Maya culture.
3632 Cobá, archaeological site.
3635 The punishments of tourists in Cancún.
3636 The art of adding air to a tire.
3640 The evolution of birds, from gathering society through all stages to >>>>>post-industrial service economy.
3640 Tulum, archaeological site (by and for dwarfs).
3643 Building technique by agglutination of constructions.
3645 Mini Amazonia-type jungle.
3645 Roads, better in Yucatán than in central Mexico.
3646 Chetumal, the un-Mexican Mexican town.
3646 First contact with Belize; its radiobroadcasting.
3646 Night minimum temperature: 31ºC.
3646 Kohunlich, archaeological site.
3647 Genesis of this name.
3648 Xpujil, archaeological site.
3649 Chicaná, archaeological site.
3650 Becán, archaeological site.