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Southern Mexico in Summer

Posted by turtle2 | 1st January 2009

Our church group drove to southern Mexico one summer, and we arrived in our village at night. In the headlights we could see large black spots all over the road, and were told they were tarantulas. Shortly thereafter we pulled up at a church building and were told to get out of the van and wait next to it! In the dark!

Of course we were fine. Tarantulas are normally passive animals and we had nothing to fear.

In the morning we got to actually see where we were… between two ridgelines draped with semi-tropical vegetation and large orange groves dotted the steep hillsides. The mist was so thick you could practically drink it, and for most of the week it was so hot that even our hands were continually dripping sweat.

During our free time, I visited the village library to read some of their poets’ works, but I couldn’t keep my hands dry enough to handle the pages, not to mention the droplets falling from my forehead, so after 15 minutes or so, I thanked them

Continued | Southern Mexico in Summer

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