Category Archives: Mexico

It’s a toad, no it’s a bug

Posted on September 2, 2024 by saaribampo

On August 28, 2024, while looking for odonates at stream crossings in El Arroyo Taymuco, I happened to be staring down at a boulder I was about to crawl over when I saw something tiny teetering in a crack in … Continue reading →

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Vote

Posted on June 3, 2024 by saaribampo

June 2, a Sunday, was election day in Mexico. It was also the quietest day I can recall in Alamos, Sonora, where we live. Ordinarily, Sunday is hopping with tourists (our town is a popular weekend destination) and with locals … Continue reading →

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The Stretch Gate

Posted on January 4, 2024 by saaribampo

This stretch gate looks like any of its kind in any landscape where livestock need to be kept in or out and where people do not have the means or inclination to invest in a more substantial barrier. This gate … Continue reading →

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Butter v. Chapo

Posted on July 17, 2023 by saaribampo

January 16, 2016 The U.S. media is obsessed with the most recent capture of El Chapo, a chubby man in a filthy T-shirt, and an American male movie star who is not a journalist and a Mexican female soap-opera star … Continue reading →

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Trust

Posted on March 15, 2023 by saaribampo

Our world is built on a shared trust in strangers who we hope are competent. From the earliest prehistoric trade routes to this very day, trust is implicit in the transport and exchange of goods and services. Without trust our … Continue reading →

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